I have owned at least 50 scopes. Most of them were well under 100.00. I have only had one scope failure in all these years and that one was my fault. I forgot to tighten the ring screws and it was on a 35 Remington handgun. The cross hair broke on about the fourth shot.

About twn years ago I bought six Tascoe Pronghorn 4X scopes and mounted them on rifles for myself, my wife and my brother and his boy. One is on a 300 Win Mag, one on a 30-06, one on a6.5x55 and one on a 250-3000. The other two are on 22 rifles. All have seen quite a bit of use and are all working well and are very clear to us. These scopes sold for 15.00 dollars each. I have had a lot of Bushnells of the tropphy and Banner models. Very clear and no failures. You don't have to spend big bucks on scopes.

That said, I now prefer scopes in the 150.00-200.00 range as the cheaper scopes have slipped a notch or two. I have Aetecs now as well as VX-l's and Bushnell 3200's. I also have a coupls Rifleman Leupolds that work just great. Swift and Sightron have some scopes in that price range as well. If they look clear to you in the store and you give them a litttle care, scopes in that price range offer the best dollar value IMO. Don't overlook the Nikon Pro-Staffs either.