Grew up with Tasco and Redfiled and they worked great. Graduated to Leupold and loved them. But I have to tell you that if you ever look thru a Zeiss at sun up or near sun down, you will never never never want to use any other scope. Took me two years to buy my first one, and now I own 3 - all 44mm objective ( Remember the eye can only process 42.2 mm of light transmission thru a 30mm tube at one time). Lifetime Transferable warranty - What more could you ask for. Someone told me that you should invest the same amount of money in your scope as you do your weapon, so I did... an I am not a wealthy person. Zeiss has optics figured out.

My $.02 worth......