I put a fixed 4x Leupold on a Ruger 77 compact in 243 Winchester 20 years ago I bought new for my son’s first deer rifle. My son is now 28 and still deer hunts with it solely every year. To him it is a tool and it works so why change. Not positive, but think only two minor adjustments on scope over 20 years. Wood and blue rifle, all original and MOA accurate with handloads.
Dad is a rifle looney with a safe full of guns and shoots many rifles and calibers. Haven’t gotten him to shoot anything else yet for deer or groundhogs, except for a father son elk hunt. For that he chose a -06 that was his great grandfather’s that I removed a bushnell fixed 4x for a Burris 3-9 FF2 back in 2005. He did kill an elk with a hand load Dad worked up for him, 180 grain Nosler partition.
Keep it simple, especially for the new hunters.
