I have plenty of experience. Id go 1-6 x24 with qd mounts. In a push you should be able to shoot most things on 1x with the shotgun and 6x for rabbits at 100+m.

I use a aimpoint h1 micro most of the time with shotgun and 1.5-6x42 for the rifle hunting most of the time but either can do the job and aimpoint keeps weight down and makes the handling better. I got about 50 hunting videos on youtube if you want to see how effective they are.