Yes do not let these guys rattle your cage about these scopes being Junk. Very expensive military quality stuff is not always the best way to go.
To show my point I want to tell you a quick story about a Mil-Spec story. I worked for a company that built electronics for the military and we ran out of Loctite one day. I found a store in the area that sold Mil-Spec Loctite. I did not get to the store until the next day and when I asked for Loctite I was presented with a bottle and was told $37. I looked at the bottle and could not find the Mil-Spec sticker that has the information on it so we could use it. I said I need Mil-Spec Loctite and he grabbed the bottle back, reached into a drawer, pulled out some Mil-Spec labels and affixed one to the bottle. He said that will be $73! Same stuff in bottle but because they test all their products to Mil-Spec they charge less for the same thing to Joe Blow on the street for half the price.
Yes the manufacturer spends thousands of dollars getting their product screened and tested to Mil-Spec requirements but that does not make a scope that we will use for “playing around” with JUNK. It may make it inferior in quality to an Aimpoint (how much we do not know) but Junk??? Unless the world falls apart I am never going to have to worry about this scope being put into an environment that would push the quality limit of either of these units.
My AR is my TOY and nothing more that I can foresee in my lifetime. Many of us have these as TOYS just because we think they are COOL and love guns like I did when I was 10 and got my first Stevens 22.
I think some of these guys forget that this forum is built with a wide array of people and lots of us think of our AR's as a SPORT and nothing more. To prove that, I am a Democrat that thinks the Assault weapon ban is and was a total joke and yet I am here on a site where I can express my thoughts.
MAN THAT IS WHAT AMERICA IS ALL ABOUT!