What magnification are you using for rimfire at 50 yards?

trebor2880 said:
Why is it that a tight group is more important than hitting what one is aiming at?
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It's typical in bench rest to have your impact point slightly away from your aim point intentionally. That way your exact aim point does not disappear in a raged hole where you have to guess where it was.
 
I have rimfire scopes in a fixed 4 power, a couple 3-9x32, a 2-7x32, and a 3.5-10x40. For shooting paper, the higher magnification scopes work better. For shooting gophers I prefer to use 3 or 4 power most of the time.
 
6×24 sightron big Sky on one rig 8 -32 Mueller on another and 4-16 Bushnell elite on one.I do a lot of 50yd shooting. And to answer OP ? YES you can get by with 16 power with a thin reticle. More power is great but I can still get tight groups with 16.
 
At our range we shoot 50 yard bench rest for score on the IBS target. One gun wears an older Leupold 24X BR and the other wears a Weaver 36X FCH. 16X might be enough. You need to be able to resolve bullet holes at 50 yards and see the target rings well enough to hold over to get the bullet to land where you want. Example: hold at 7 o'clock on the 10 ring to hit the X dot in the prevailing wind.
 
I understand the reasons why target shooting can benefit from a higher power scope. I use 3-9 because I want to sight in and use the hunting unit for small game. Perhaps I will consider a higher power scope in the future.
 
savagecanuck said:
6×24 sightron big Sky on one rig 8 -32 Mueller on another and 4-16 Bushnell elite on one.I do a lot of 50yd shooting. And to answer OP ? YES you can get by with 16 power with a thin reticle. More power is great but I can still get tight groups with 16.
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Dwayne Cyr said:
At our range we shoot 50 yard bench rest for score on the IBS target. One gun wears an older Leupold 24X BR and the other wears a Weaver 36X FCH. 16X might be enough. You need to be able to resolve bullet holes at 50 yards and see the target rings well enough to hold over to get the bullet to land where you want. Example: hold at 7 o'clock on the 10 ring to hit the X dot in the prevailing wind.
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Thank you. This is relevant and good information.
 
I have a 36x Bausch & Lomb on my target .22LR. Its almost a bit overkill for my skill level at this point but I hope to improve and make full use of it. Will also mount it on other rifles when needed for dedicated target work, as in load testing.

The most versatile scope range I have owned was a VX-II 6-18x40, it was extremely clear. At 18x I could spot .204 bullet holes at 100 yards easily, and 6x is still possible to shoot offhand in a hunting scenario.

Would think the fixed 16x would serve quite well for 50 yard rimfire.
 
Target...? Which target ?

Beer can or groose at 50 can be open sight or 3-9.

More seriously , shooting for group or score from benchrest need some serious magnification.

All of my best groups came from 6-18 , 6-24 , 36 or 10-50 magnification scopes.

All of them were wearing fine crosshair and td reticle.

I also use one or two for load development for my hunting rifles.

While shooting for group size , impact point is set about one inch over aiming point ( in my case at least ).

Go with whatever suits you.
 
I have a vortex 3x spitfire but just ordered a 3-9 vortex for my cz 512. Just plinking on my farm though. Hoping I made the right choice hah. My range is 75 yards.
 
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