My advice is a $200 to $300 scope will do the job 99.9% of the time that the $1000 will do. If you however go and get a $1500 scope or a set of bino's you will have spoiled yourself and it will be hard to settle for less than the best.

John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life".