thank you all for the great input, and i apologize for not posting back earlier, work has been really crazy.

the price of the x-bolt came up a few times, one said to much and other said to cheap, i went back and checked yesterday the x-bolt composite talker blued is $704 and $940 for stainless, no keep i mind that is on base so no tax(that's a big savings right there) but will be looking around, we have an academy but they don't have anything but shotguns and ar's. and basspro/cabels/gandermountain is about 3 hours for the closest one.

i've also been looking at some of the Vortex Viper scopes, and from what i've read they are very nice and under rated, the also have no questions lifetime warranty