This is a unanswerable question that will arrive nowhere beyond a random opinion poll without a lot more info about the type and location of hunting and shooting it will be used for. Best for you is probably not the same as best for me. Best anyone can expect with info presented is brands or families of scopes to look for or avoid.
Personally for BEST without any budget I’ll be concerned with scopes that have a proven track record for reliability by lots of people who are overly critical OF RELIABILITY, since Ive had several supposedly high-quality scope brands repeatedly crap-out on me. So, boutique brands that I have been unable to get lots of feedback on such as march, tangent theta, zco are strictly out of consideration—I just cant get enough info on actual real-world reliability to justify the hype, and Ive personally seen enough scopes with great reputations fail that I dont trust the mystique. Prs use does not count, as all of the prs rigs I have seen are relatively babied. Seems to me the brands that have a reputation for “best” in this regard are nightforce, trijicon, schmidt &bender, swfa. So far all other brands seem bad, suspect or untested enough for me to risk high $$$$ on them.
Next up for me is reticle and magnification matching my uses and my eyes. I have never seen an swfa in the wild, I hear people like their reticle but some of those same people accept some other reticles that I think are terrible, so Im not going out of my way to try one. Aside from their forceplex reticle I have yet to find a nightforce reticle that I would use for all-around general hunting, so they are out the window for me as well. Trijicon has some mil-dot type reticles that I think are ok, although some of their better scopes I dont care for the reticles at all for general-purpose hunting. So to me thats an iffy choice for all-around best scope. That leaves me with schmidt and bender. I like their p3 and p4 reticles, to me thats a good all-around hunting reticle that also functions for medium range (beyond point blank) hunting and practice. To me it’s the best Ive been able to find in a scope that I find acceptable. Their 3-12 klassik is a pretty good scope so far that, while it has some quirks that I dont care for (limited elevation travel, turret twists in wrong direction, mag ring rotates too far), does the best job of ticking the important criteria for me. Some of their more $$ models eliminate most of these quirks, so thats the direction Id personally be looking for the “best scope” given the broad criteria listed and my personal priorities.