RE: Spotting scopes
decent? for that price? perhaps used on ebay or something.
I think spending an extra $150 on your scope would be better spent, ie going from a 200 scope to a 350...
but for 150 on a new spotter, it'll do what its worth, not much. I bought a cheap tasco spotter years ago. no matter what the power was, my vx-iii at 14x was much clearer and could show bullet holes at 100/200yds better than that thing could at any power, I believe probably over a decade ago I paid close to a $100 for it.
I'd try and rethink the $150 spotter idea.