Cheapest would have been a Vortex Crossfire 3-9x42. Not baaaad, but it didn't do anything particularly well.
I've had all sorts of scopes ranging from the mid-priced to the very expensive, and dollar for dollar, I still think you can't go past a Leupold vx2 or vx3. Everything you need and nothing you don't (for a general purpose rig).
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