I don't know worse glass is relative. If you are talking about a woods gun you just don't really need all that to shoot a deer. Maybe sheep hunting but around here no way. Consider this I got Schmitt and Benders...but you know what I hunted with most of deer season? A 2.5-8 Leupold VX3 on my woods gun and a Minox HD 5 on what I was food plot hunting with late afternoon. And I didn't need anything more expensive. Hail I got a 35 remington with a $150 RedField on it I deer hunt with. Does everything I need it to do.
My backup rifle, a Savage Stevens 270 I paid $170 for new in college, sported a $25 tasco for years and I killed piles of deer with it. It now sports a $100 Bushnell that has also killed piles of deer.
