Good concept, horrible glass - SIG SAUER Sierra6BDX 3-18x44mm Rifle Scope 30mm Tube, Second Focal Plane

There's a lot to like about this scope as long as you really care about the reticle and ballistic features. There's a lot of neat technology that lets you setup holds, do ballistic holds etc. I'll give Sig credit that they are bringing a ton of technology to the consumer at a lower price, something probably has to give when doing that, and in this case it's the optical quality. However, that's about where the positives end.

The reticle is very thick, now to be fair that's needed to house the electronics that display the dots I'm sure. So I can give them a pass on that, but just be aware it covers a lot of target, at 18x at 100 yards it's probably covering 1.5" of the target, makes it hard to really dial in zero. Especially if you are used to thinner reticles on todays tactical/competition options.

The max brightness is pretty low, you can see it on max brightness against a gray target in full sun, but if it was a full sun white target, or snow scene it would be hard and that's with new batteries. I've also had it turn off twice while shooting, recoil seems to affect it. As with many scopes don't trust the yardage on the parallax, mine is parallax free at 100 set on ~175yds.

Probably most disappointing is the glass quality, it's functional, but optically it's about on par with a $300 scope. My Vortex PST II 5-25x glass is much better on the same power, and even at max power. I'm not even sure the glass compares well with my Nikon Black FX1000 4-16, or Bushnell 3200 3-15x.