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Posted: 9/19/2009 6:59:31 PM EDT
| I am wanting to put some glass on my 10/22 and so far I'm thinking Burris/Leopold @ $220 or saving some $ and going either Nikon/Vortex @ $120 I want to go with a variable power so I can see up close but my eyes aren’t so good so 2-7X or 3-9X would be ideal. I just shoot at the range and might look into laid back silhouette competitions-nothing serious. I'd be cool to hear from anyone with any of these optics, or something comparable pricewise that is working well for you. Thanks in advance. |
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I have used in the past:
Nikon Prostaff 3-9x40mm (2 of 'em) - worked very well, the both of them, but one had sightly clearer optics than the other. Nikon Prostaff 2-7x32mm shotgun scope - This one worked VERY well as a general use kinda scope for a .22 Nikon Buckmaster 4x40mm - If you want a GOOD straight 4-power scope, this is the one to get, IMHO. Nearly $200 bones, but worth every single penny. If it has a bad side at all, it is that the scope itself is fairly large. Nikon Buckmaster 3-9x40mm - This is what I have now, and it is a damned good scope, period. ALL of the Nikons I have used have had adjustment tracking that was dead on the money, and very good optics, but be aware that there is a definite increase in quality as you move up the ladder. Not much else to say about Nikon scopes - they don't have any "quirks" to work around or anything like that; they simply do what they are supposed to do, and they do it very well. My first 10/22 had a Simmons 2.5x20mm Deerfield scope on it. Now this was a great little scope which fit the 10/22 extremely well, and as soon as I hit the woods with that rifle, every squirrel for miles hauled ass in a blind panic. I wish they still made these. I have also used the Simmons 4x32mm shotgun scope - The old one I had was a good scope, but the 2 later models I tried were garbage, both of them. They both had fields of vision that were cloudy and distorted at the edges. They all held zero very well though, and that was good, because in all 3 (even the good one) the adjustment tracking is so unpredictable (ie: one click may be 1/4 MoA, while the next may be 5 MoA, they are that bad) that zeroing is a serious pain in the ass. I also, once upon a time, tried a Bushnell 2.5x32mm shotgun scope. Don't. After the punishing recoil of 3 rds of CCI Stingers, the reticle had rotated to an "X" pattern. The one I got in exchange was equally bad, just in a different way. |
| The 1.5X-5.5X, 2X-7X or other similar variable SHOTGUN scopes work well on .22's. While they may not have the light gathering ability of the larger objective scopes, they are regulated for parallax at 50 yds, are light weight and are appropriately sized for the carbines. You can generally get a Simmons for less than $100 and it works very well. |
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