I have been using a couple of these for the last few months and they have been top notch thus far. I expected the headband mount to go out as they feel flimsy, but both have held up better than expected.
My focus has always been hunting it, but that has involved plenty of hiking. For my purposes the northern Gallatins have proven the most fertile ground, somewhere between points defined by Gardiner / Big Sky / Bozeman / Livingston. The closer you get to Bozeman the 'busier' the trails get.
If I...
The inside of the barrel matters far more than the outside and a bias for better balance and handling grants many favors regardless of the platform one is firing from.
In the $600 range a T3 Lite is hard to top in a hunting role.
I'm "running" a herd: SWFA of varying models, Nightforce NXS and ATACRs, elder vintage Leupold M4 and FX3, USO SN3 and ST10, Bushnell LRHS...probably some others I forget. They'll all happily hold zero, repeat adjustment, and RTZ well better than anything Vortex. A $300 SWFA SS will shame...