Is this scope good for hunting? With the small objective lens, I think you would be giving up too much light gathering abilities for dusk and dawn... an additional 5 minutes of hunting on either end can be the difference between success and a day sitting in the field.

I forget what scope we had mounted on my son's .243, but the difference between it and my Nikon Monarch was night and day. We were in our stand early morning, sun just barely breaking the darkness and we heard the hogs come in to our feeder and eating the corn. Could barely see them with the naked eye. Could not see them through my son's scope, just too dark. Could see them through mine though! I didn't take a shot because I wanted my son to get his first hog. By the time there was enough daylight for him to see the reticle, the hogs were gone.