Jeff, there was some news today about these scopes from the Shot Show
The NRANews radio staff interviewed a Nikon rep at the Shot Show today about the new Monarch scopes. The rep went to great lengths to emphasize that the new scopes are a totally new design, and not any kind of upgrade to the existing Monarch scopes.
He said that all the new Monarchs have a 4 x magnification range. For example, the 4-12 and 3-9 are being replaced by a new 3-12x model. And the new varmint model will be a 6-24x
He also said that the new scopes will offer an amazine 4 inches of eye relief! Wow, that is truely awesome. And he showed how these scopes will also be side focus models.
Sadly, he did not go into more detail. But the 3-12x model he was holding sure looked awesome!
Lance in Oregon