This is truly a GREAT scope... Mine, once sighted in for the rifle, has held zero for over a 1000  rounds without need for even a tiny tweak, and that's despite quite a bit of bumping it around over the past 6 months, but of course the rifle in question is also only a .22; I can't speak for any high-power applications. Anyway, this might seem superficial, but the old-fashioned gloss finish is hard to come by these days. Everyone makes scopes flat-black now. Rings too. Well my Father just gave me a brand-new Henry lever-action .22 that he accidently won in an auction when he tried to help get bidding started. he turned out to be the only bidder. He didn't want it to begin with, and upon trying the gun out it shot terribly to the left and tweaking the iron sites didn't help, so he gave it to me for free (not the type of thing my Dad normally would do). So I sought a suitable scope with all the features I wanted, but I also hoped to find one which matched the look and feel of an old-fashioned Henry lever-action rifle. Being that such a rifle is not a precision piece to begin with I wasn't looking to spend a fortune either. Well this scope filled every need and then some. Because the rifle not only looks like a top quality show-piece now, but I was able to compensate for the far off left shot that was originally experienced and now I have a very accurate gun. Dad regrets giving it to me, I think.