If you’re mind isn’t already made up on the magnification ranges, I’d suggest going with a lower top-end magnification scope.
A FFP scope in the 3-15x or 4-16x range, would be a good choice, from my perspective.
Typically higher magnification scopes are more finicky when adjusting for parallax and have less forgiving eye relief, when compared to a lower magnification option in the same product line. For example a 4-16x ATACR versus a 5-25x ATACR.
It’s true that you don’t have to use all of the available magnification (e.g. shoot a 5-25x scope on 16x). The issue here is that the relative thickness of the reticle, at 16x, is going to be thinner in the 25x model as opposed to the 16x model.
Shooting at lower magnifications will also give you a wider field of view (more situational awareness), make it easier to spot your own shots/trace (catching bullet flight at Max Ord.) and more easily keep your sight picture during recoil which will help you observe the bullet impact effect on animals.
Also, it’s been my experience that guys shooting at high magnifications are more prone to slapping the trigger, because they’re trying to time the shot…and or…they develop target panic due to seeing amplified tremor between the reticle and the target.
You mentioned wanting to shoot out to 1,000 yards. As a general rule, I think a maximum of 1.5x power per 100 yards is about right (e.g. 15x at 1,000 yards).
I typically use about 12x at 1,000 yards, when shooting at ~1.5 MOA targets.
In summary, I believe more magnification generally creates more problems than it solves.