These kind of threads are funny to me, lol??!! Not to sound demeaning or snobby BTW.
Been shooting different rifle comps most of my adult life and am a former state champion in both FT and long range centerfire steel so I know a thing or two about riflescopes.
Story - a friend shows up one day at our long range match with a H brand scope and proclaims proudly, hey man this new $400 scope is like a NF but for much less. I was already familiar with both brands. The short of it was that it broke and he sent this first scope back and received it repaired, it failed again soon after. He then demands a new replacement, it broke shortly after and received another one from the Co which he immediately sold at a loss.
The next month he bought a NF NXS 5.5 -22x56, I should say financed it because this was a ton of money for him, the NXS has never failed.
We still laugh, our circle of friends that is, about this happening, he as well. Live and learn....
But expensive scopes fail too, though usually much less in general. The clicks disappeared in my S&B 3-20x50 but the scope still held true to the mil lines on the turret, lucky me, because I won the 2018 High Desert Southwest Regional 22rf match using it.
Even among scopes and brands that compete against each in price brackets there are compromises. One Co's sacrifice might be glass quality, another the scope internals, another the feature set, while others horribly missing the do's and dont's like mixing moa and mil, etc, list goes on. Every scope is built to a spec and a budget.
The trick is to understand where the best bang for the buck actually is, the Midas TAC being firmly in there, if not #1 in a long line of.... I can think of many scopes that fall behind for different reasons and half of them are more expensive.
