So my brother's sling broke at the end of the season last year and he didn't bother to check it out until we did a final sight in before this year's season. Well, the short of it revealed a bent tube on his scope. He was back to his .243 for the season as we went the scope in through scheels. About 5 weeks later I got a call saying it was back in. Now I wasn't expecting much, in fact, I was expecting the old scope to come back with an SOL note attached. I was pretty shocked to find a new 4.5-18x40 nikon prostaff 5 in the box. Kudos to nikon for replacing it without asking questions.