Hunting is the reason I shoot. I have or have had ZCOs, Kahles, Zeiss LRPs, Steiner T6Xi's etc etc on comp guns. I don't let money limit me on what I put on primary use rifles, whether that is hunting or competition. That said, my two primary hunting rifles wear Maven RS 1.2 2.5-15x44's. FFP/MIL with an excellent hunting reticle. Taken close shots in basically full dark conditions without the illumination on at 2.5x and also taken deer out to 500ish with them. Literally not another scope out there at the moment that checks as many boxes as it does for a hunting rifle. And yeah, I'm one of the RS kool-aid drinkers who won't risk his once a year 10-14 day trip in the backcountry with a Leupold or Swarovski that has to be re-zeroed if you look at it wrong...