I spent 2 days here at the GAOS, I was able to look at Athlon, leupold, vortex, Burris, Zeiss and Swarovski.
Hands down of the models I looked at the swaro was the leader. Price tag with show price was around 800$ for a z3.
The Zeiss I deliberated on was a v4. 4-16 with a long range Christmas tree style reticle for about 580$ was nice glass and I nearly bought it. At the end of the day I didn’t want that reticle and a zplex was 1000$
Various vortex models the viper was tempting.
Burris I can remember the model but the scope was around 450$ and I was impressed
Athlon was impressive but most of the options here were large target models not hunting models
I looked through a trijicon Huron and it was ok
I was bummed to not find any Meopta or GPO to look at.
Unfortunately checking out glass indoors isn’t a real test. But I decided to stick with leupold 4-12 x50 freedom. Got it for 350$ stayed under budget.
