I understand that a lot of things are on sale now that were not in march or April, so I went with what I thought I could afford at the time and only with one that would read the ranges that I wanted it to. I already had a Bushnell 1000 but it was hard to get past 4 or 5 hundred yards with it and when the sun came out and it got bright out I was hard pressed to get 300 yards out of it , and it was no way as fast as the sig. Many times I would have to keep pushing the button many times to get a reading. In one of the forums I read where a guy wasn't getting the reading with his Sig that it said it should get , a model 2000 so he sent it back to the company and they replaced it with a 2200 model, I would say that was a hell of a good company. When I long range hunt it is from mountain to mountain and I set up the military range finder that resembles a Bazooka , it ranges to I think 20,000 yards. I don't try to range the animal I range that general area, the ground, a pine tree works real well. I may put the deer in the sigs circle but it may be reading the ground but the yardage is good, put the clicks on the gun and fire in the hole!. and as far as many of your scopes even big names and those claiming to be made in the USA use Japan glass in their scopes. I probably would have even been ok with the Sig 1500 model I think for what I want it for, now I'm not saying my 2000 is better than the Leicas you fellows have and I'm not calling anyone a liar but it works a lot better than my old Bushnell, and it does everything I bought it for and more , I am very happy with it so far and it usually gives me some surprising ranges every time I play with it , I haven't hunted with it yet but I have scouted a couple places I will walk into and shoot across places I would not be able to carry the military finder into I cant get it into my pockets. Good luck hunting and be safe.