Originally Posted By: Toby Barclay
This depends on the use you are going to put it to.


This is it. Exactly.

Another consideration is mechanics. There are scads of sub-$1k scopes with decent glass but poor mechanics. You shouldn't have to rap on an optic to kinda, sorta believe an adjustment you just made. There are very few sub-$1k scopes with bankable turrets that will pass box tests as many times as you perform the test.

But not everyone will ever touch a scope setting once "zeroed" at some preferred distance, with some preferred load.

There are no free lunches. Everything costs. Mechanics. Range of adjustment. Glass. Variable magnification. Reticle. Focal plane. Do your homework so to make conscious, deliberate compromises. Or..........just spend the money, alot of it.