Well be assured your Nikon scope does offer a very quality view and there are many happy owners, quality over many years..
Not sure about Nikon, they may be going away from hunting products.
Doug is a Nikon camera retailer, and yet he was not allowed to sell Nikon hunting scopes, but Doug does sell the entire binocular and spotting scope lines.
Doug could comment.
Nikon Photo never would allow the photo dealers to buy Nikon riflescopes as the photo division was anti blood sport and photo is the majority of their business. 2 months ago Nikon announced a drastic reduction on the warranty of all their sports optics. Now they have announced that they will no longer offer riflescopes but will continue to offer binoculars, spotting scopes and rangefinders although I do not know which rangefinders. For all I know they may cut out the hunting related rangefinders and just offer the golf versions. Not sure what's going to happen with the LaserForce 10x42 binocular rangefinder either.
I heard, but have not gotten full confirmation as we are not a Nikon riflescope dealer, that as far as warranty on the riflescopes if they cannot repair it they will give a value voucher towards another Nikon product. Not really a warranty in my eyes, however, as they are out of the riflescope business it's like any other company that goes out of business the warranty goes away with them. IMO, the sales on Nikon riflescopes right now are a great opportunity if you like their scopes and realize that you are getting a deal on an as is item with possibly no warranty..