Always good to get opinions. I wouldn't go cheap on a scope, but you are looking through the monocular 95% of the time. It seems like many people, including myself, that start with a better image on the scope than monocular eventually updates their monocular. I now have a better image in my monocular than scope, but don't have any desire to update my scope because it will kill as far as it needs to, and still IDs great. My comment would be equal or similar money.