10/22 Scope advice
- Thread starter purplemushroom
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I shoot lots of gophers. Scopes run from 2-7, 3-9, & a 4-16. If you are hunting bunnies then something with low power & wide field of view is the way to go. I have 1 red dot but it is not on anything, They look like you are to cheep to care, or want to be ninja like (please not this is only in my eyes, what you like, on your gun is none of my business ). Buy a good clear scope, it does no good to look & have a fuzzie target or not see the cross hairs.
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- West Quebec
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Get the BSA sweet .22 scope, it's only $50 on ebay but its a great scope. 3-9x40, hand adjustable windage and elevation, waterproof, shockproof, fogproof, quick change turrets for 36gr, 38gr, and 40gr bullets. My friend has one on his savage mrk ii and I have shot it with the scope and its awesome. Great scope, wish I had bought it instead of my 4x32 BSA, but mine works great just it cost the same price and I could have gotten a way better scope. I have seen many people with highly modified 10/22s with this scope and it works great. I might just buy it and stick my 4x32 on my pellet gun, but there are so many other mods for these guns I haven't been able to keep my money long enough.
I have a cheap bushnell rimfire scope on my takedown that doesn't seem to work worth a sh*t. I never thought of putting a red dot on for grouse hunting but I just might take that vortex strikefire off the sks that never gets used and mount it??
Your choices are not limited but if you want an accurate shot to 50 yards, then you want a scope meant for rimfire with a parallax set lower than 100 yards.. like 50-75 yards for example. The vortex diamondback series has a 2-7 in rimfire I think, and it is a very good scope. It is around 150. There is also the prostaff 3-9 rimfire, which has the BDC 150. If you want to shoot a grouse at 50 yards, you will like the 3-9 range as the target is pretty small especially if you aim at the head. I used x6-x7 for 30 yard shots, and x9 for anything beyond that. x3 was great for close range work. You just have to account for the height of the scope over the barrel's bore when you shoot within say 10 yards.
At your price range, go to the store and get what your eye likes. It might come down to the reticle or how the picture shows up, eyebox etc.. Sometimes small features can be important to some people, so as suggested above I would research a fwe scopes to have in mind then let your own eyes decide.
Are you sure it's your scope that's the problem? I just put a Leupold on my 10/22 takedown and I found serious accuracy issues when the gun was shot offhand vs rested. I just tightened up the barrel nuts and hope things will improve next time out.
Lots of people say that the 10/22 takedown is just as accurate as a regular 10/22, but we gotta make sure everything is setup correctly.
^That's been my experience as well, but, my eyes aren't what they once were either. I'd say a 3-9x is about all you need (or less) as 22lr isn't that flat-shooting a round beyond 50 yards anyway. A Leupold rimfire (parallax 50 yards I think..?) wouldn't be bad, but my only 22 semi (a Marlin 795) wears a Chinese brand called "Rex", 3-9x with an adjustable objective. It stays as 9x most of the time, but for hunting...I dial it back to about 4x. Don't have to mess with the AO as much.
I did try another scope on it a little while ago and it seemed to improve it a little bit but maybe these takedowns are just inaccurate? I've tightened everything up tried all the different ammo etc but just can't get any good grouping??
I can't speak to your specific scopes and whether or not they are the problem. However I can say that so far there seem to be a few more variables with the takedown model which can affect accuracy. I just hope I can sort them out, since it is just a successful design and many other owners say it can be a reasonably accurate gun.
I've concluded that red dots are really designed for fast shooting at human-sized targets at relatively close range. For small game or precision target shooting at any distance over 25 yards, get a scope.
I'd like to make a point about field of view with these scopes. What really attracted me to the Vortex Diamondback 2-7x35 rimfire is it has a FOV of 64.3 - 19.3 feet @ 100 yd, compared to the Leupold VX-1 rimfire 2-7x28 with a FOV of 46.2 - 17.8 feet @ 100 yd.
On the other hand, the weight comparison is 14.2 ounces to 8.5 ounces, respectively.
On the other hand, the weight comparison is 14.2 ounces to 8.5 ounces, respectively.
