aztec777,
In your other post regarding this new rig (I'll be looking at that BLR for one of my next rifles
)you said you don't trust Tasco. If that's the case, scrap it. When hunting, there's too much at stake to bet the hunt, and most importantly, the SHOT, on something you don't trust.
I wholeheartedly recomend looking at a Leupold. IMHO Leupold is is the best scope for the $. A good 3x9x40 Vari-XII will set you back about $220, but you'll never need another scope. Dad, brother, and I have 6 of these scopes on six rifles, and they've performed flawlessly. All but the newest one have seen several years of hard hunting.
I only know one person who has a Zeiss scope (3x9 or 10 if memory serves) and I never could figure out where the extra grand he paid for it went. Nice scope, but not that nice.
I recently bought a used 22-250 (Rem 700 w/custom bull barrel, custom trigger, and scope for $600, Merry X-mas to me!) wearing a 6x18x~40 Burris Scope. Seems like a very nice scope, but time will tell