The reason so many don't have confidence in tasco's is because they have been failed by them at inopportune times. A cheap scope might hold it's zero for years but murphy's law being what it is that scope will choose to fail when you have the biggest buck of your life in front of you. Tasco's are pretty much junk in my experience, simmons is the same. The leupold vari-XII 3x9x40 mentioned before can be had for around $180 if you shop around and is in a completely different league than the tasco or simmons. The point is that over the years a tasco or simmons will NOT work as well for you as a leupold, that's practically guaranteed.