Okay, you and I are gonna have to get a direct line to Ripley's again CJ!!! I've always had the same issues with "ballistically pre-matched" optics myself. Most real shooters load their own ammo to match their own personal rifles. How can someone make a scope that will "supposedly" have correct elevation out to 600 yards for pretty much ANY rifle other than the tested rifle? You can't. Plain and simple. Each and every rifle made will shoot each and every factory ammo differently. You can get SOME degree of accuracy but not to what I or any other ethical hunter out there would consider good enough to hunt with at longer ranges.

I'm a huge fan of Nikon but that M-223 scope for me is about as useless as one can get. All my optics wearing firearms wear Nikon. I've used others in the past but it is hard to beat the quality to price that you get with them. The Nikon Prostaff 2-7x32 with the Nikoplex reticle is what I put on my .458 SOCOM fairly recently. If that sucker doesn't blast a scope apart then there aren't any other AR 15 platform based rifle going to! Nice bright scope and holds settings even under a belter like the .458