Any scope should hold zero, regardless of the cost. Now that being said you get what you pay for, I've done the Simmons, Trashco, BSA thing in my youth and learned that if you save for the quality glass you come out ahead in the long run over spending on not so quality glass and end up having to replace it. My primary gun wears a Zeiss, all of my other hunting rigs wear Leupold's, my Varmint Rigs wear a Nikon Buckmaster's and a Bushnell Elite3200.