Hi Sam. Welcome to the forum.

I use to think they were the bees knees until I checked out Kahles scopes. Leupold were a very good mid range scope-at the higher end of mid range. Well times have changed. Kahles like other Euro scope manufactures now have a range from mid range to their good stuff. Leupold now have a range from low end to stuff equal to the high end Euro scopes.

The VX 3 and VariX 111 were very good scopes for the money IMHO.Their warranty is still the benchmark for the industry.