Damn man. I wish!!!
So with your experience, is there any reasonable compromises to be made on these things?. IF you were to compromise, where would you do it; processor, mag, objective, other bells and whistles?
If I was going to get a lesser grade model it would be on the objective, you don't want anything under a 640 otherwise you won't be happy with the resolution it will look like a Minecraft game and you don't want to skimp on the processor or it will skip and hesitate, 60hz is pretty much real time. The zoom isn't a deal breaker either, digital zoom pretty much sucks in all of them and to be honest 200 yds is a poke at night, 90% of all of my shots are close to 100 yds or under. 50mm objective is as small as I'd go.