Or you could have taken the 200 bucks you spent on the tricked out high powered Barska and got a simple 2-7 or 3-9 power hunting scope. The same 200 dollars would have gotten you a lot better optics and a scope you would enjoy shooting more. Honestly unless you are target shooting for the utmost smallest groups you simply don't need that much power, especially if you don't have the budget for it. Remember snipers can take out a target at almost half a mile with a 10X scope.
If I were you you I would stay away from the fancy tactical models and start looking at more simple hunting scopes. Good scopes of the styles you are looking at run thousands of dollars in most cases. If you can get one for a quarter of that there has got to be a reason, and it won't be because you got a good deal
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If you want a tactical style scope check out this one, not a bad scope for the money. Not as nice a $700 Leupold but they are pretty decent. I own one similar to it.
Mueller Tac II
Paul