I personally like vortex these days, but your call had one failure with Nikon and took two different times to contact their cs(fist passed me off to no end, and it took me about two years to call them again), it was replaced after about a three month wait. Sold it southern a week, a friend had a monarch and uckmaster, he's looking at replacing them with Leupold vx-1's. I really wanted to love the Nikons but to me? There are loss of good Scopes out there that are better than Nikon for me, votex, Burris, Leupold to name the order I'd look. Good luck, show a pic of the elk when you get one.