Absolutely different ones for different purposes (too many to mention.) Each selected is for a specific purpose (long range, short range wide field DG, rimfire, pistols, etc., etc.) but my most favorite is one that Leupold unfortunately doesn't manufacture or sell any longer...It's a 30mm 12" @100 black/illuminated red circle with a 1 Mil (black/illumated red) dot in the center. Also very handy for rangefinding with the 6" at 100 yd radius, 12" diam, 1" dot, etc. 'Have it on a short 30-06 pump that's taken more game than all guns combined...It (and the pump which essentially autoloads upon recoil AND you don't take your eye off the target, unlike most other actions) IS absolutely phenomenal for moving or running shots (out to about 300 yds, as it's a 1-5x). They had one w/ 150 yd parallax and another (for shotguns/muzzleloaders/short shot woods or swamp rifles) set a 75 yds. Gun shoots <1 Mil 5-shots (and <2 Mil 10 shots). IF ever hunting PG in Africa again (especially smaller, springier stuff, I'll bring the pump over as it's perfectly suited for same!) The Burris varmint BDC reticle scope comes to mind, as it's simply dead-on out to 750 yds using a 22-250 and 55-60 gr bullets (the finer lines are Very important for longer range varmint shooting, as the standard versions will cover up woodchucks or prairie dogs at 400 yds or longer-you literally cannot see the targets.) With all that great glass out there, hate to say it but the absolute Longest shots ever made on game (successfully) were with a Burris Fullfield II 4-14x 42 Illuminated BDC (400-750 yds regularly.) Trijicon 1-6x 30mm German #4 for DG (illuminated, no batteries required.) Illuminated because Black bear and Syncerus can be damn hard to aim at with Black reticles early and late in the day! Bushnell or Weaver "big game" scopes for rimfire rifles.
Do NOT like the Nikon reticles with the hollow circles as aiming points-simply NOT precise enough, IMO based upon trying one out that came with a rifle (quickly sold it and replaced w/ Burris-borne out of Leupold!) Aimpoint-type red dots can work nicely on shorter range pistols, shotguns, muzzleloaders and older doubles, singles, etc. Shot a fair amount of game <100 yd using a red dot on a .44 RM once upon a time. Remember when the other "better" Euro scopes were $2K+ and the US' best were $1K (and, at that time the value of the EU:USD was 2:1.) When the USD:EU became 1:1, how come the prices didn't change??
LOL When I selected the Trijicon DG scope, 'went to Europtic's showroom and we went outside in the parking lot, looking N. toward World's End S.P. with Kahles, Swaro, S&B, Zeiss (and poss others) and guess which was the absolute clearest (the $1K US military contractor scope!) Did same with binos and grabbed a pair of 10x42 Blaser Primus (for the same reason.) As they are made in Austria, I think they were 2.5K list (but they sold me the demo model for $1.5K.) Heavy, but phenomenal optics! GL with your choices. Sometimes I think optics fall into the "fashion show" category...plenty of Armani dresses on guns not typically utilized to their full potentials (in which case what's mentioned above gets the job done and the (Involuntary) cost of Bidenomics can be paid for with the "savings!" LOL
