if you can get one, get one of the old tasco titans. now before you all start going on about cheap and nasty tasco crap the original titan was 30 mm tubed and japanese optics from front to back. i showed mine to richard wilhelm in christchurch who was super fussy on optics. he wandered outside and compared it to a kahles etc then promptly declared that it was a damn good scope. light gathering was awesome in twilight and it was in general a great scope.
i also had a leupold vari x2 which was good but i took a spill with the rifle and snapped it in 1/2. leupold gave me a replacement scope with no warranty issues at all. great service.
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