The Monarch Gold series featured perhaps the best scopes Nikon ever built. They are extremely well-made and both rugged and reliable, not to mention superb for low-light applications, which is what they were designed expressly for. In fact, they offered these with a nice #4 reticle as an option. An acquaintance of mine has the 2.5-10x50/#4 and has used it for moonlight leopard in Africa -- and said it worked perfectly for his applications.

I don't doubt that as I have taken hogs in moonlight with one as well.

I've used and abused Nikon scopes for many years and never had an issue, though I do not care for the cheaper package scopes that came on certain new rifles and wasn't enamored with the original ProStaff series, either.

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