I'm in Phil's camp.........

IMHO the answer to all the "what gun" , "what scope", "what optic"...... questions are "Purpose driven".

In Pa you still can't hunt with a semi......... countryside is wooded and rolling...... at the present time I can't think of many justifiable self-defense shootings at ranges in excess of several feet; let alone 200 plus yards. ...... I don't compete anymore (was on the HS and College Rifle Teams).

Any "light sniping" at pesky varmints will be done with my Scoped CZ 527s in .223....... or .243. My scope of choice for the Laurel Highland/Allegheny Mountains where shots over 100yds are the exception and over 200 almost impossible to find; is a 1-4x20 Leupold

So for fun at the range; and if the "S ever does HTF" I'm a red-dot fan..... mine are Aimpoint PROs