My opinion when it comes to rifle scopes is save up the most money you can afford for a scope, then save up about 150 more. The new Leupold vx-3i's are pretty nice and affordable. The VX-2s are also good scopes. I am kinda fond of leupold and zeiss so I can't speak of other scopes. I will tell you this, I doubt you really need a 16x scope, and when you start getting into high magnification scopes, the price goes up quick.