Leupold Scout
I screwed a Leupold IER (scout scope) on an early Savage Scout some 10 years or so ago, and have never regretted it. Like all Leupolds in my experience (I've got 9 on working rifles, buyem used and blemed on Ebay) I've never had a lick of trouble.
I do on occasion wish the 2.75x had a bit more magnification, and have pondered some type of variable, but have never done it. One reason is that for the targets the rifle gets applied to, mostly deer and larger steel plates, or paper plates, I can get hits out there far enough that I always conclude 2.75x is good enough. It is not a varminter.
Two other comments. I did have a bit of trouble with the IER seeing the crosshairs in bad light. I could see the deer fine.........but I was losing the reticle. Especially when aloft in a tree stand and the deer and woods floor dark beneath me. I solved that problem by having Leupold install the big chunky German #1. I can see that aiming point easily in any light that I might consider shooting. And the fact that the big aiming point covers a target with holdover doesn't bother me a wit, because I don't run it past a point blank zero anyhow.
Also, the field of view on a scout scope is pretty small, even at the low powers. At the upper end of the power scale on the 2-7 variables, it must seem like your're looking through a keyhole. Now....that's just speculation as I've never used one, but I wonder............
