"It lights up..."

Jeff the reticle lighting up does not make the scope brighter. It actually can work against the scope gathering light to see what your shooting at.

I love my two NF scopes for LR target shooting. I can resolve 6MM holes at 500 meters in good conditions....but to me the 2.3X10 was dark and had a small eyebox.
I would have bought one in a heartbeat, but I just plain didn't like it for big game hunting.

Lefty C