I took the new SPR hunting this weekend, no luck on game but I did check out the light gathering capabilities of this new scope. For those who are from Texas, know it gets pretty dang dark about 6:00pm this time of year. I was hunting in a bottom so it got dark fast. At 6:00 I could have still shot at 90 yards. The NP-R2 became pretty invisible but with the variable illumination levels, it was perfect! The illumination really made it easy.