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Hi Fellas
So I think this would be the right forum for my question as it’s about scoping a CZ 457 Varmint .22 LR

I have 3 Leupold scopes on hunting rifles and I like them so I’m thinking of going with Leupold for the above rifle

I plan on using the above rifle for targets and possible competition . I may take it hunting

How would you scope this rifle



I’m just past retirement age and have prescription glasses but to be honest I was not wearing them 2 years ago while hunting with my scoped hunting rifle .
Thank You !
Leavenworth
 
Leavenworth said:
Hi Fellas
So I think this would be the right forum for my question as it’s about scoping a CZ 457 Varmint .22 LR

I have 3 Leupold scopes on hunting rifles and I like them so I’m thinking of going with Leupold for the above rifle

I plan on using the above rifle for targets and possible competition . I may take it hunting

How would you scope this rifle



I’m just past retirement age and have prescription glasses but to be honest I was not wearing them 2 years ago while hunting with my scoped hunting rifle .
Thank You !
Leavenworth
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If your considering entering CRPS, you will need a FFP scope for this. MIL or MOA is just a preference. Magnification is debateable but Id opt for quality glass over mega magnification. If your only gonna try the outlaw rimfire you can probably get away with much less as far as magnification. The targets are 25-100 yards and a skilled shooter thats comfortable can do well with glass that would cripple a CRPS competitor. Go ta a match and talk to the guys and look thru their stuff. Anybody will gladly help you and probably allow you to try their rig. Jerry from MYSTIC is in ur neck of the woods and sells Athlon at many different price points. I have heard great reviews on their quality and many competitors use them. Best of luck. Youll have a blast!!
 
for rimfire you better have something FFP and adjustable parallax.
Scope is something you buy once and cry once, and keeps value very well when reselling.
So I suggest Nightforce NX8 2.5-20 F1, cost about 2500. When you look through it, you will never look back. It's 30mm tube and relatively small and light weighted but very sturdy.
Next step up will be Khale 525, Leica PRS and Minox ZP5. I handled all of them and glass quality wise Leica is the best and Minox has the most forgiven eyebox. However they are bit pricey (about 4000 give or take), and large and heavy.

Among all those, I think Nightforce NX8 suits you best if you can stomach that cost.
 
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Thank You ! I have homework to do!
Leavenworth
Longstud said:
If your considering entering CRPS, you will need a FFP scope for this. MIL or MOA is just a preference. Magnification is debateable but Id opt for quality glass over mega magnification. If your only gonna try the outlaw rimfire you can probably get away with much less as far as magnification. The targets are 25-100 yards and a skilled shooter thats comfortable can do well with glass that would cripple a CRPS competitor. Go ta a match and talk to the guys and look thru their stuff. Anybody will gladly help you and probably allow you to try their rig. Jerry from MYSTIC is in ur neck of the woods and sells Athlon at many different price points. I have heard great reviews on their quality and many competitors use them. Best of luck. Youll have a blast!!
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Like my reply above I have homework to do !
Leavenworth
JQIAN said:
for rimfire you better have something FFP and adjustable parallax.
Scope is something you buy once and cry once, and keeps value very well when reselling.
So I suggest Nightforce NX8 2.5-20 F1, cost about 2500. When you look through it, you will never look back. It's 30mm tube and relatively small and light weighted but very sturdy.
Next step up will be Khale 525, Leica PRS and Minox ZP5. I handled all of them and glass quality wise Leica is the best and Minox has the most forgiven eyebox. However they are bit pricey (about 4000 give or take), and large and heavy.

Among all those, I think Nightforce NX8 suits you best if you can stomach that cost.
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Whatever you get make sure the parallax adjustment is on the side not the front as they are usually too far forward to adjust from behind the rifle comfortably.
 
Buy once, don’t cry on that one, Delta Javelin is an incredible scope for the price, my best scope purchase yet.
 
What is Outlaw Rimfire ?
Leavenworth
Longstud said:
If your considering entering CRPS, you will need a FFP scope for this. MIL or MOA is just a preference. Magnification is debateable but Id opt for quality glass over mega magnification. If your only gonna try the outlaw rimfire you can probably get away with much less as far as magnification. The targets are 25-100 yards and a skilled shooter thats comfortable can do well with glass that would cripple a CRPS competitor. Go ta a match and talk to the guys and look thru their stuff. Anybody will gladly help you and probably allow you to try their rig. Jerry from MYSTIC is in ur neck of the woods and sells Athlon at many different price points. I have heard great reviews on their quality and many competitors use them. Best of luck. Youll have a blast!!
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For a rimfire I'd narrow my choices down to a first focal plane design.
My budget would be 1/2 of what ever I paid for the rifle or slightly more.
 
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Leupold uses the Tremor 3 & H59 Tree style reticles which at first glance look overwhelming. I will always vote in favor of illumination on an optic as I find it advantageous. If you step away from Leupold your options grow exponentially. Some reticles have the entire tree illuminate while others only The “Cross/MilDot” or the Center dot. Arken, Apex, Vortex, Athlon, and many others are currently battling it out in the PRS Arena. You will be banging this scope around in PRS so invest in a roll of Gaffer Tape for cheap protection.

Vortex is a big sponsor of the sport so I’ll shill for them and suggest the Viper PST Gen 2 6-24x50 rocking the EBR-7C reticle or the Strike Eagle 5-25x56 also using the EBR-7C.
 
I have a leupold vx3 4.5-14x40 AO fine duplex.
I have had it on my 452 and my built 10/22.
I think it’s great for plinking and hunting.

Pretty awesome for stuff out to 150yrds. I have shot steel out to 300yrds just using hold overs. Not precise but fun for sure.
 
Here I go again with the scope delima for the new CZ 457 Varmint .22 LR coming my way fellas ! I’m hoping to get a scope on sale at Reliables November 19 th sale as I like to support local whenever I can .
So far if I was going to shoot competition I think it would be in the 50 to 100 range I 5hink you fellas called it Outlaw .

I’m not going to spend over $1500.00 if possible . So I’m thinking one of the following brands that Reliable has
Bushnell. Leupold. Vortex the ones made in the Philippines ?

Still not sure concerning FFP or SFP ? Also not sure about Illumination. ?
I may use this rifle hunting as well . I know it’s a poor choice for a grouse gun though .

Thank You !
Leavenworth
 
If you plan to shoot targets at various distances, I'd suggest a scope with 'Numbered' MOA bars ( NOT BDC ) so you can easily determine hold-over with just adjusting the parallax with a FFP-SF.
I don't agree with the 'half-cost' theory; my scopes cost more than my rifles (New retail prices) in most cases and I'm 'frugal'. I don't know if I'd go to $1500 for a rimfire but if you're seriously going to 300 yds it might be worthwhile to go there.
My CZ-455 and Sav B22 have Cabelas Covenant-4 6-24x50 FFP-SF (discontinued) that retailed ca $500 with tax, and only my CZ cost that much. The C-4 had MOA bars numbered every 4th bar and I can shoot ca 1.5" at 100 with a 6-7-bar hold (on my good days).
JME for what it's worth.
 
In the $1500ish and under range the most popular scopes I see on the rimfire PRS circuit are the Vortex Venom, Vortex Strike Eagle and Athlon Ares. I have used all three and for the money I think the venom is pretty good, if you want to stretch the budget the Ares 5-25 is great.

Arken's name gets thrown around but there was a whole long thread on the Long Range reddit talking about how Arken basically pays youtubers/influencers to talk up the scopes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/longrange/comments/wsened/arken_commentsposts_now_require_mod_review_and/
https://www.reddit.com/r/longrange/comments/vbrznv/does_anyone_have_any_experience_with_the_arken/
 
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