After a night shooting class, I'm a huge fan of illuminate reticles. In early and late light, they are so much better that I'll glad trade out a bit of glass quality to get one in that price range.
I ended up going with the Zeiss Conquest 4.5-14x44 Z-Plex, because i was able to get if for a great deal at 699.99, now i am not sure if i will need that much magnification, but it was such a good deal at 130.00 off i could not pass it up.
I have the Leupold VXIII in 3.5-10x40 and a 4.5-10x40 both with BC reticles...........LOVE THEM...reticle works great. Mounted on Tikka T3 LS 270WSM's. My wife took over the first so I bought another for me. Reloads of 140gr Accubonds are giving under 0.5" groups @ 100 metres close to 3300ft/s. I love this caliber/bullet combo!!
Taken elk, moose, bears, whitetails & mulies and the odd wolf at various distances...1 shot kills. I took a large cow elk couple years back. It was -33 deg.C, at 200m broadside doublelung...she reared up, flipped over backwards dead before she hit the ground!!!! :mrgreen:
WOW, how come the pics went so large.....that has never happened before.....
I'm a Leupold guy...thats all I have on my Sako m75 rifles.