And I'll bet with that $40.00 scope you have to sight it in every year and find it has moved. Hold the two up to each other and you will see the difference in the clarity, not to mention the problems with cheap scopes fogging etc..

So you buy a pice of $40.00 crap every five years as you put it. After a few years you spend as much as you would have spent buying a nice one first.

You get what you pay for! There is no argument here. Pay $40.00 you get a $40.00 scope. If you feel comfortable with that then that's the way to go.
I don't want to change wounding a deer because I'm too cheap to buy good accurate optics. That's my opinion. Theres a reason no sniper rifles in the world use $40.00 Tasco scopes. Give me a break