As I said in an earlier post on this thread, the early black-anodised Tascos were in my view the best of the bunch. The later Lumina jobs were of similar appearance but optically inferior. My AG models with their faux-Parkerised finish were of variable quality but the 4-16x40 TR was a great all-round performer.

These days, with seemingly a billion different scopes on the market, we're spoilt for choice and even relatively cheap scopes have all the trimmings such as sidewheel parallax with cartwheel, target turrets, illuminated reticles, etc. I'm currently using an old Leupold 4-12x40 for springer HFT, which works fine set on 7x with a 25 yards parallax. My collection of oldies are fitted with the retired 626V 2-7x32 scopes and a 615W 1.75-5x40. I still have a Bausch & Lomb 6-24x40 target scope from around 1989 but it's ridiculously long for most applications.

The Hawke range offer good value for money but I've noticed that the finish on some scopes is very easily marked.