Where I live, there's a lot of city light and head lights from traffic on Pacific Coast Highway, last night due to the mist thrown up by the huge waves from the storm in Hawaii it was foggy on the coast, still the D740 aptly showed its capabilities. At 150yds I could clearly make out individual bricks on a chimney, I'll test longer distance later tonight when the traffic diminishes a bit. The experience is akin to looking through a TA31 with a green filter on it, for those of you that have 4x32 ACOGs, you know this is no mean feat!
After I've spent some time with the scope, the sage advice and statements from Victor start to make sense. I believe I can clearly make shots out to 600 or 700yds with ease. Firstly, I can positively ID the target, secondly, the resolution and clearity of the scope inspire confidence, the equipment (rifle and scope) can do it as long as I don't throw the shots. It's as if I were doing the shooting in day light, so the oft repeated "turn night into day" is a cliche no longer, but a reality.
The weight is totally accectable. I don't have a scale, but my US Optics SN3 sure is a lot heavier than the D740. I want to use the D740 on the MRP, but the cheekweld issue may dictate otherwise.
In my conversation with Victory last night, he indicated the only way I may get around the cheekweld issue is to either remove the eye cup, but then I'd risk getting hit in the eye by the objective lens because it's difficult to judge the eye relief with a NOD at night, not to mention it'd cast a green light on the face, or get the Magpul's RSS stock. As I don't intend to use the PRS stock on the MRP setup, I'll just dedicate a rifle for use with the PRS and D740.