I do not have a lot of experience with spotting scopes I've really only used 2 I believe one was a gold ring Leupold which was absolutely horrible in my opinion and the other was nightforce ts-82 20-70 which is between 2000-2500. I was blown away at how much better it was than the Leupold. If the vortex is anywhere near the nightforce I would be very happy paying 1,100 for it.