Mis-understanding there then.
Ok I will explain myself if your stalking is only 5 minutes away from your home (like mine now is.) then if your scope lets you down it is no problem and in really I think that there is a 90% chance that the Simmons will be just fine.
(When taking recommendation from our US cousins remember that in some states the rifle season is just one month long,
our roe season in Scotland is 12 months long for example).
But if you have to travel to your stalking then things are some what different. I used to travel 450/500 miles round trip to go stalking. So lets say you have a couple of days off work to go stalking and your scope goes tits up on the first stalk, and you have to come home to fit another scope re-zero your rifle ect.
So fuel lets say £75.00, accommodation one night £27.00 two days wages say a min of £150.00, ammo to re-zero £18.00 then that scope has cost you £270 because it let you down. It could be a lot more if you were going red stag stalking and woundered a trophy stag, some estates charge for misses and then charge a min of £25 per hour to follow up with a dog. That’s what I meant that it could work out expensive scope, and I was not brave enough to buck the establish advice of spend more on you scope than on your rifle.
Hope that explains my opinion.
Thar