You get what you pay for.  Kowa scopes cost a lot, but one will last several lifetimes (I'm the third owner of mine).   

An 80+mm 20-60 scope for $179? I wouldn't give it a week (less if it has to travel down the road to our range).

My brother, the Birdwatcher, put it this way:

“You can buy all the magnification you want for cheap, but resolution is a Darwinian situation where the more resolution you want, the more you have to pay.”

Resolution, and not magnification, is what lets you see bullet holes at 200 yards and more.  A cheap scope will give you a big image that goes out of focus with the slightest touch of the adjustment, and never is good enough at the best setting to pick up what you want to look at, whether it’s feather patterns on distant birds or target condition.  The image will be big, but it will be fuzzy.

My own knockaround “NCStar” 20 x 60 scope that I keep in the scheutzenwagen for convenience is a good example.  About 40x is the highest I can turn it up and still hope to see small bullet holes in targets.  Higher power just reduces contrast and makes what I want to see harder to do so.  When I want to look further than 50-100 yards, out comes the  Konus or Swarovski.

I own two Kowa scopes and a Swarovski scope, and all are fantastic. But honestly the Kowa scopes are slightly better for less money than the Swarovski for less money. I got the Swarovski dirt cheap at an estate sale, and at the price I figured I'd try it.
My compact Kowa 20x is better at spotting holes than most the 45x-60x spotting scopes I've compared it to.

A couple of years back I was watching a Celestron Regal M2 65mm ED 16-48X Angled Spotting Scope on eBay and the guy started lowering the buy it now price every couple of hours.  I finally pulled the trigger when it hit about $325. I bought it because I thought my old reliable Bushnell Spacemaster was broken.  I eventually fixed it but the Celestron had become my favorite.  I like the extra magnification and usually can see .22 holes at 200 unless the mirage is bad.