My vote would be to save up a little more and go with the Leupold Mark 4. They come illuminated, I personally like the TMR reticle, not so "busy" of a view. IMHO, learn the scope's hash marks and leave the dials alone after you get it zero'd in. I do own both, the vortex viper PST and the...
Just an older (55) guy looking into Long Range Target shooting as well as problem coyote's. The darn dogs are chewing up our drip irrigation system tubes.