Scope for 22LR

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Re: Scope for 22LR

Post by Wm.Traynor » 30 Sep 2017, 9:29 am

Plinker wrote:
sungazer wrote:Change your mind. Its not enough magnification. You will be disappointed and buying another scope within months. There are a lot of comments on here that dont recommended enough magnification. For example Duncan and his 25*52 for shooting at 1000yrds I don't know anybody that uses such a scope they all use 32 times as a minimum a lot of 42 times some at 50, 60 then the expensive at 80. For the 22 a variable 4-16 about there would be my bet. I use bigger.


For a 22 though? This Nikon is meant to be a 'rimfire' scope


For target shooting I have seen a lot of enthusiasm for "big" variables with parallax adjustment. See rimfirecentral.com
But for a rimfire hunting scope I would have thought that Nikon would be ok i.e. like my Leupold only a bigger objective
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Re: Scope for 22LR

Post by bladeracer » 30 Sep 2017, 10:12 am

sungazer wrote:Change your mind. Its not enough magnification. You will be disappointed and buying another scope within months. There are a lot of comments on here that dont recommended enough magnification. For example Duncan and his 25*52 for shooting at 1000yrds I don't know anybody that uses such a scope they all use 32 times as a minimum a lot of 42 times some at 50, 60 then the expensive at 80. For the 22 a variable 4-16 about there would be my bet. I use bigger.


I would agree generally, but it probably makes a difference depending on exactly what you're shooting at. But even if you're just shooting rimfire to improve your centrefire shooting I think higher maximum magnification is better.
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Re: Scope for 22LR

Post by Dunxy » 01 Oct 2017, 10:19 am

After a few thousand rounds through my Lithgow with a 12power scope I have some observations.
Spotting hits @ 100 (especially if they are in black VS white or going hole in hole/cloverleaf) is indeed hard and in hindsight I feel something 15 or higher would have been a better choice. Im very happy with the performance of the Bushnell ar223 scope aside from wanting more power.Holds zero no worries, i have it zeroed @ 50m and worked out elevation for 100m and have been back and fore award between these on the turret and its stayed spot on.
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