re: What scope to go with of these three?

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One may easily be knocked off zero, fog up, etc.

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At the price bracket you're talking about those will be non-issues 99.9% of the time. All of those are manufacturers with good, earned reputations.

I have a Vortex Razor, which is made by LOW in Japan and has top tier glass by any standard. I compared it side-by-side with a $500 Trijicon I bought for a new rifle, and while I could tell some very subtle differences going back and forth between them looking at the same view, if you just handed me one in the field I couldn't tell you which one it was by looking through it. There are probably scope junkies that might could, but my 50+ old eyes cannot.

Above a certain price point the differences start to really shrink, and you have 3 scopes that will all perform the basics very well absent some factory defect. If you're serious about dialing shots I suspect that's where any separation will be found if there is any.