RE: simmons scopes
I'm not going to argue with someone who says they want something better. To each his own. I don't feel like spending a house payment on a scope. Maybe some do.
I dispute the claim, though, that there are 'far more reliable and better performing optics for the same price'. Nothing I've seen in the same price range of the Aetec M.S. clearly stands out above & beyond it, either in reliability or optics. Anything I've seen that clearly outperforms them also costs significantly more.