VX-1 3-9x40 Matte, Duplex, for $199 or less.
If you factored in inflation, this scope is significantly less expensive than its great-grandfather, the Vari-X of the 1960s, and much improved optically speaking. One of my older Leupolds is a 3-9x40, #88911, that has traveled back to Oregon once, when some of the internal lens coating began to flake off, but is still a pretty serviceable rifle sight at least 43 years after it was originally sold.
this......
and the sightron s1.....
stay away from fast foucus eyepeices
look for lockring eyepeices
a lot of the fast focus eyepiece models have a shifting reticle image if the eyepiece housing has movement
just look thru it and attempt to wiggle the eyepeice
the sightron has fast focus eyepiece and absoloutly no movement
good solid scope
midsouth shooters supply has some for under 120
