Great rifle. As for shooting much better than the Simmons scope, I had one of those scopes on a centerfire rifle for 8 or 9 months. It worked great and was fairly clear for the price. Optically, I couldn't tell a difference between it and the Nikon Prostaff I replaced it with. The Simmons didn't track the best, but once it was set it stayed zeroed. The rifle shot sub moa groups all day long with the Simmons, so once I put the Nikon on their it didn't shoot any better. Honestly, I was worried about the Simmons failing on a hunt so I sold it and upgraded, but it didn't give me any problems, or any reason to believe it would fail other than the guys on forums telling me that they were bad. So I'd not hesitate to shoot with it on that rifle, but you might eventually want to upgrade to something better. Once you get into the $170+ price range you can start getting glass that's a good bit better.