What scopes to use ?

[darkker]

AMEN.
and.............Keep in mind: "best for the money" is not best in any other catagory.

This is true, so I'll offer some elaboration for the OP, from my scopes.

Weaver tactical(#800363) retails about $800. This scope has the glass quality of 98% of anything costing $1,000 or somewhat more. This scope is on Painless, I shoot to a mile with it rather regularly. Is one of my benchmarks to judge other scopes with.

SWFA 5-20 - retails around $1,200. Optically isn't really much better than the Weaver, certainly not by the difference in price. Color is a bit more true.

SWFA 3-15 - retails at about $750. This scope looks fantastic when looking through your neighbors window hoping to see his ole Lady changing, but that's it. Take it out in the middle of the day in summer and try target acquisition at 1,200 yards; you'll see what a train wreck it is. It's turrets adjust like the old fixed 10X as well.

PA 4-14 ffp - Retail is $229. We actually did a shooting day where multiple folks could shoot at the above mentioned 1,200 yards. Optically this scope flat embarrassed the SWFA 3-15. The SWFA couldn't distinguish one of the targets, it just disappeared. The other was impossible to mil, and really you would mistake it for veg if you didn't know what it was. The PA however easily resolved on both. Honestly this scope was very close to the optics of the Weaver. The PA also comes with as much adjustment range as the Night force BEAST line of scopes. IIRC 33 mil, mine tests at 34.

So again, buy the best quality you can; NOT just the highest price paid. Otherwise you can spend $750 for something that isn't worth the price of a VXI, or you can spend $230 on what is closer than most shooters could discern, to a $1,200 scope.

Cheers and best wishes on whatever you decide to do.