For the money and your price range, I'd go with the SS and like TimK said, go higher power if you're looking to shoot at 1K (I'd go 20X but bare minimum 16X) Heck I run a Vortex Razor 5-20 and 99% of the time or more it stays at 20 power, even when only shooting 100 yds, and on my 22lr trainer I have the SS 16X and never have a problem finding my targets.

The other nice thing about them is that if you decide to update later, your loss on sale is very minimal and it will move pretty quickly.