Welcome from Pennsylvania too! Here we suffer from the endless affects of carbon rings. (Probably has something to do with it being/or was coal country.). We also shoot out a lot of barrels rather quickly. Heck, about all you can expect from a 28 Nosler around here is 400 rounds. And a 26 Nosler? Hard to even line up the scope before the lands start to erode. Optics wise, it's harder to sneak a Leupold or Vortex across state boundaries than it is a train load of infected bananas! Nightforce, Swarovski, S&B, you'll probably be okay. Seriously, you'll learn a lot here! Digest it all the best you can, and trust your own trial-and-error above else. Have fun!