You have to remember that the far majority of posters in this thread that are not happy with their scopes are talking about regular Vipers. Most of the PST and HS LR users say that they're comparable to, or better than, the VX3, Conquest, etc.
I've owned and used 4-5 Vipers and PST's, and so I'm not talking about one good scope that's an anomaly.
But I agree that the product line has more variability in it than I would like, as far as optical quality goes.
