I don’t trust most common hunting scopes to stay zeroed or track reliably (even the expensive ones) so tend to buy a little more robust scopes.
I’d take a look at trijicon accupoint and meopta optika5 in that price range.
Edit to add: I don't really agree unilaterally with the "spend as much or more on your scope than your rifle". On a $3-400 rifle? Yeah, I'd spend more on the scope. With most typical hunting rifle scopes what you're paying for primarily is optical quality, zoom range, Elevation travel, illumination, turret features, etc. You can spend $2k on a Leupold Vx6 that's just as likely to lose zero as a $500 VX3 but it has a larger zoom range and a little nicer image quality. I have $600-$1000 scopes on numerous $3k+ customs rifles because functionally they do what's needed. I wanted no holds barred, best long range hunting scope that $ can buy when I built my first custom rifle. I spent $3k on a March 3-24x52. It was impressive in many ways but the parallax was finicky AF, depth of focus very shallow, reticle was rarely sharp when the parallax was dialed out. I replaced it with a $1k Bushnell Elite LRHS that is longer, heavier, slightly less clear, turrets aren't as crisp, has less ideal magnification on bottom and top of the range BUT is a better functional optic because the reticle is always sharp and the parallax doesn't need to be effed with so much in dynamic situations.
