A year or so ago, I ordered one of the Crimson Trace Series 5 34mm 3-18x50 that Midway was clearancing out. The Series 5 were all Japanese scopes, and optically the glass was excellent...the rest of the scope was really not that impressive. Turrets were a little mushy for my tastes, but had a decent/audible "click"...but that wasn't the biggest issue. The biggest problem was the reticle. These were all FFP, so the reticle changed sizes through the magnification. At 3-7x, it was almost invisible....and basically unusable at less than 9x. It was simply too small, and even at 18x, the reticle still didn't fill the entire FOV. Not sure why they did it this way, but it was a big letdown. Illumination was decent, but not great. I think the initial price on these were around $1500, and Midway dropped them all the way to $600...even at $600, I wasn't impressed. I actually tried a second model, it was no better than the first.