for the $400 and free mount the SWFA is worth a try. My pig/general purpose scope is the 1-6 VX-6. Finally Leupold made a reticule thick enough and black enough for me to like. You put a red light out there and you don't need illumination to kill chit with that reticule. Without the illumination in my personal opinion the SWFA reticule would be too light to use in the near dark, I liken it to a Zeiss Conquest rapid Z reticule.
