Best lpvo in it's category - Steiner P4Xi 1-4x24mm Rifle Scope, 30mm Tube, Second Focal Plane (SFP)

I have looked through and handled the Trijicon accupowers, accupoints, Vortex viper, Leupold VX-r, patrol, and this is the one that sticks out as the best all-around LPVO for the price point you can get it at.

Glass is clear, eye box is huge, eye relief is good.

The two things that make this optic an easy choice for me are the fact that it's as true a 1x zoom as you're gonna get, but more importantly, the reticle is just what you need, and nothing more. Many of the competing brands have gone in a direction that has generated extremely and unnecessarily busy reticles, and it kind of drives me crazy. I work in law enforcement and I have the luxury of participating with a few local tac teams. In an urban/suburban setting, you need your true one. The leupold 1.5x zoom just will not due imho. For hunting, an untrue 1x zoom would suffice, but not room clearing. Your eyes fight for dominance and you get two different meshing sight pictures. It's nice to have that boost to 4x with a nice easy throw of the lever, which steiner includes, and that is truly appreciated. When doing room clearing, you also don't need a glowing tree in the middle of your sight picture, like the always affordable vortex strike eagle. Maybe some people are really utilizing all these distance marks on their reticles AND getting quick target acquisition with their giant glowing horseshoe rings, but if it were up to me, I'd probably have a dot in the middle, and 3 lines coming toward the center, no top line coming down. When it is in 1x zoom, I want to be tricked into thinking I'm using a red dot, and when I need a little bit of an enhanced visual, I don't need 6 rows of glowing lines for shots out to 200, 300, 400, 500 and 600 yards.

Some will disagree with me and want the most they can get. I believe simplicity and reliability wins. The steiner seems to be built tough and robust. Time will tell if it is.

While the accupower is a good second place, the accu 1-4's reticle illumination is not daytime bright. That isn't a huge deal-breaker, but I have yet to utilize the brighter half of the settings on the steiner because of how bright they can get. I like having a wide range of illumination settings, because I can create a tiny red center point, no matter what the level of brightness I'm working with in my environment. The accupoint seems to be a great value as well, and requires no batteries to be effective, but the illumination is what it is and more importantly, you're going to spend hundreds more.

This is THE LPVO for real-world application, imho. On the right day, with the right coupon code, you'll pay a little over 500 for this optic, but it's still worth what it's listed for.

God Speed.