thanks bud, lol... I've actually been running one for years, but my little guy is getting to be one heckuva spotter and it's for his Xmas present. he's gonna go nuts, but he'll find more animals with it than any of the guys we've taken hunting over the years, he's already shown. I'm excited to have another person with us that can find animals. lol, when he was 9, he used his sisters scope on her rifle to locate her 205" mule while the rest of us were using high-end binos and spotters, he's as hard-core as it gets. thanks though, I'm excited... need to figure out which objective to get him now, he's only 65 pounds but usually packs a quarter out when we get stuff along with his binis and tripod but thus would be a pretty big addition, especially if we don't get the 65mm.