Excellent Budget Optic

I shopped around and looked through every ~$250 1-4x I could find in stores and the Crossfire II had the best all around features. Brighter than all of the Bushnell offerings in that price range but slightly darker than the Nikon P223 1-4x; although the Nikon has no illumination. I do agree that the illumination is only useful at dawn and dusk or indoors. I've rarely used it because I prefer the crisp crosshairs but did turn it on for a dawn 100 yard shot on yote (bagged him). It is very at home on my 16" RECCE build AR. I will admit that it probably won't be the "forever optic" on this gun but until I can drop more money it's serving me just fine.