Rimfire Optics Overkill?

Rod B said:
No advantage that I can think of. The FFP scopes enlarge the reticle as the magnification is increased. I much prefer a fine cross hair that does not obstruct a small target.
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That's what I was thinking. When target shooting I prefer a fine crosshair too. And when shooting a .22LR at fixed ranges there is no need to estimate distance.
 
thegrandpoohbah said:
On a SFP scope the holdover points on the reticle are only going to be correct at one given magnification, usually the highest setting.
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Yes but if you are bench rest shooting you can do the math easily enough for other magnification levels. At least the divisible ones from Max. 8, 4 for example if 16 is Max.

Not so much for quickly aiming at a rabbit.....
 
In my mind (I'm thinking out loud here and have never tried this) one advantage of a FFP scope would be having the ability to zoom in or out and perfectly frame any size of target at any distance with the marks in your reticle. The only time I suppose you'd want to do this is if your target aim point is obscured by your bullet holes. I do have a FFP scope with a Tremor reticle but I haven't spent much time experimenting with it to know how well that would work.
 
I recently installed a Bushnell Legend HD 4.5-14x44 on my .22LR. At first when I was using it I felt it was to much weight added after having a VX1 2-7 previously mounted. But now I'm happy to have the weight of the bench as my outings to the outdoors have been less freaquent(work schedule) but do have time to venture to the range during my lunch breaks.

I'd love to have a dedicated 22 with maybe something a little more intense mounted but don't see the point in a the use of a FFP for that. Correct me if I'm misguided.
 
sigarms226 said:
I recently installed a Bushnell Legend HD 4.5-14x44 on my .22LR. At first when I was using it I felt it was to much weight added after having a VX1 2-7 previously mounted. But now I'm happy to have the weight of the bench as my outings to the outdoors have been less freaquent(work schedule) but do have time to venture to the range during my lunch breaks.

I'd love to have a dedicated 22 with maybe something a little more intense mounted but don't see the point in a the use of a FFP for that. Correct me if I'm misguided.
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Not at all misguided.

A couple of my gopher guns wear sfp with mil dots.... what i usually do is head to the range and use my typical zoom levels 6/12/24/32 and place targets at 50/100/200/300m then make a not of WHERE the bullets land on a given power level on target in relation to the mil dots.

so now when i go to the range, 24x is full value (mil dots are true) Then at 100m on 12x i know that to get the same point of impact I need to hold over .5 of a mil dot to hit the target. now do the same for the other mag range and distances. Now you have a complete dope/drop chart for the glass, ammo and rifle and target.

All you need now is to be good at estimating the range to target, verify scope power setting, adjust holdover, and shoot. Sounds complicated, but it really isn't. it becomes second nature after a while
 
Depends on what you classify as overkill, for ####s and giggles for a brief amount of time on of my 22lr bolt guns had a PMII 5-25x56, it was actually put on there as a joke but hey it worked Laugh2.

My cz455 has a 4-14x44 primary arms.
 
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