06-21-2012, 08:28 PM
Yes, imagine my shock that the Leapers didn't hold. Believe me; I didn't buy the scope for this project. I didn't have anything to put on it to try, so I pulled the scope out of the back of my safe. I thought Nikon Monarchs were a really nice scope for the money. I'm finding that they don't care much for recoil. They DO have a no fault lifetime warranty, but what's it worth if you have to keep sending scopes back to California for repair. I have since installed enedyne buffers in all my AR platforms in an effort to keep optics happy. I have a 5-20 x 44 Monarch that holds zero (Holds zero now because it too was sent back to Nikon for repair) on my DPMS SASS. I'll swap them out and head back to the range. If the GDMR checks out, I'll be looking into premium optics. Thanks for the advice.