What can you afford for a scope? It all depends on your price range. The Bushnell Elite 3200 and 4200 are decent scopes, but I'd not go with anything below that.
If you don't have anymore than $100 the Nikon Prostaff is a decent choice on sale at many places for $100 for the 3-9x40. If you can spare slightly more SWFA has the Burris FFII's in 3-9x40 for $120. Optically this is a much better scope. If you can spend more than that, the next step up is the Vortex Vipers. You can get the 2-7x33 for $175 from Cameralandny.com or the 3.5-10x50 for $250. These are all great scopes on great sale prices. If you can spend $400 or so, the Zeiss Conquest is the way to go. It just all depends on your price range, but those are my suggestions.
For rings and bases, I'm a fan of just getting a set of quality steel bases, and a set of the Burris Signature Zee rings. Those are the best rings I've used under $100 imo. The plastic inserts are nice as they eliminate the need of lapping the rings, make sure you won't have ring marks, and if you need to shim the scope you can change inserts. They really are great rings. I've also got a couple sets of steel Leupold rings. I like them, but not nearly as much as the Burris Zee Rings. Warne is another popular brand of rings. I've tried using cheap rings and mounts from companies like Weaver, but they really aren't worth it imo. The aluminum ones seem to strip out easily. That's my biggest complaint. Once they are mounted if they don't strip they work well, but I've stripped out several sets and I wouldn't have with steel rings. By the time you buy 2-3 sets you could have just bought the Burris rings. Weaver does make steel rings too, but they don't seem to be up to par with the Burris rings or Leupolds and are nearly the price.
