I was recently in the market for a new spotter and decided to look through a ton of glass and do my homework. In the end I ended up comparing the following scopes - Gold Ring HD, Cabelas Euro (Meopta), Nikon Fieldscope ED, Vortex Razor HD, Bushnell Elite and the Minox. All the scopes were great and had good color reproduction and image quality. The Gold Ring HD glass was very good, the size and weight were good also the reason I did not like that scope was the chinsy eye piece. I was used to an eye piece that was a twist adjustment up and down (eyeglasses vs. no eyeglasses) and the Gold Ring has a chinsy flap that you flip over. The cabelas Euro had the same chinsy eye piece adjustment so it was out also. In the end I ended up saving a couple hundred dollars more and bought a Swarovski ATM non-HD and felt it had better image quality, better eye piece, better weight and better viewing (angled eye peice) than any of the scopes I looked through. I thouhgt the bent light design of the Gold Ring was kinda cool but the Swarovski was worth the 300$ extra. Just my 2 cents.