Originally Posted by Nomercy448

In fairness, I BOUGHT my ATACR on an instructor program, as well as my Vortex Razor and Vipers, and my Bushnell Elite Tacticals, so I don’t have that much into them - still sizable investments, however.

But since you mentioned the lottery, I thought I’d point out the irony of your words - I would generally be too cheap to have bought it, but I WON it in a drawing of all shooters at a match last season. So I picked up a $3500 optic for the price of a $250 match fee.

I do plan to buy a Tangent Theta this winter, however, so maybe my tastes and tolerances are changing (we also started 2 new businesses last year which are paying off much better returns already than we expected).