I personally have all Leapold scopes, going from 1.5-5, 2.5x, 4x, and 3-9x. All have done very nicely, with no fogging, no problems.

Last year, I purchased two Simmons $39 specials. 4 power scopes to be used on two of my sons rifles. Both rifles are Win model 88 in .308 caliber. We recently went to the rifle range and the pic shows the results. Not championship groups, but darn acceptable for 100 yds off sand bags.

I picked these Simmons because they are good "starter" scopes, and if they fall apart in the field, or the boys drop the rifle and break the scope, it is not a great loss.

The scopes have minimal edge bending when viewing a vertical surface at the edge of the scope field, and both scopes are nice and bright, with well defined reticles. Parallax when moving your head to and fro is noticable, but not objectionable.

Granted the recoil test on the scopes has been light, as the .308 is not like a magnum kicker.

Good luck