New 22lr needs a scope!

Originally Posted By: K22




Boy is that nice Jim.

You're spot on about how important parallax is for rimfire's.

Due to my failing old eye balls I recently swapped out my old tried and true Leupold 4X rimfire scope on my CZ for one of their 3-9 EFR compact's. Another great scope for a rimfire rifle. I love it.
The only Squirrels I shoot live in holes in the ground but it works perfect for that task.

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Hated to see the old 4X setting in a drawer though and since I always wanted a Mannlicher stock I picked up a 10/22 (everyone should own a 10/22 right?) and mounted it with the lowest rings I could. It's fun for back yard plinking.

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Originally Posted By: RePeteOriginally Posted By: K22




Boy is that nice Jim.

You're spot on about how important parallax is for rimfire's.

Due to my failing old eye balls I recently swapped out my old tried and true Leupold 4X rimfire scope on my CZ for one of their 3-9 EFR compact's. Another great scope for a rimfire rifle. I love it.
The only Squirrels I shoot live in holes in the ground but it works perfect for that task.

XThGcfZl.jpg


Hated to see the old 4X setting in a drawer though and since I always wanted a Mannlicher stock I picked up a 10/22 (everyone should own a 10/22 right?) and mounted it with the lowest rings I could. It's fun for back yard plinking.

3XjDWdIl.jpg




Charlie, that Ruger International is a fine looking setup. I remember when you went with the Leupold 3-9 efr scope and because you did I started looking at them too. Now I own one so I'll stick it on the Kimber in the first photo.
I've looked at and used other scopes from different makers and liked many of them, but it is hard to beat the Leupolds.
 
I agree there's other good rimfire scopes Jim (Sightron and Weaver come to mind) but I've had such good luck with Leupold over the years I just bite the bullet and go with what works (for me) and that's Leupold.
Matter of fact I'm down to 6 scoped rifles and they all wear Leupolds.
They may not be the best but they get the job done at a price I can live with. I call em the working mans scope.

 
And because I've had the same good luck as you have with Leupold for a lot of years, that is who I go with also. The VX2 series have been my choice for awhile now. Several reasons, with clarity and fast focus eye piece, being part of it. And if Mike McCourry says the VX2's are bullet proof, that's all I need to know.
I thought to myself when you bought the CZ rimfire, that rifle just says Charlie all over it.
 
Quote:I also wanted to shoot at the small shoot n c pasters at 100yards and shoot 50yards amateur bench rest competitions so I figured the high magnification and parallax adjustment would be the best thing. Would you suggest separate scopes for each thing Definatey....Target shooting is usually graded on smallest group size for five shot and maybe an aggregate score by ring value, hence the need to have your most consistently tight grouping ammo, even moreso than for Squirrels...

Most .22lr match grade ammo will come in at slightly less than 1,000 fps and the trajectory difference may surprise you when you exceed 50 yards...I have one rifle that loves the old Quik Shok at around 1,400 fps for 100 yard targets, where my so called "match" lower velocity groups start opening up....

After 50-75 yards, your parallax starts to get critical and few fixed parallax optics will provide the results you need for target competition...Before you jump into buying a special high power target scope, be sure to research the relevant rules regarding any optical limitations, no sense in spending money to find you can't use it...

I have an old 1937 Walther single shot with a Japanese 8-32x and one match judge tried to restrict the use of the 32x until I asked him to show the written rule that I had just researched and found no restriction...I got to finish the shoot for score...50-60 years ago it was amost unheard of to shoot a friendly rimfire match with anything other than open field sights....
 
I just have a 3-9x40 on my 22. Works for me and I've killed a lot of squirrels with it. How far away are you making all these head shots? Just curious. That's some fine shooting.
 
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Originally Posted By: K22And because I've had the same good luck as you have with Leupold for a lot of years, that is who I go with also. The VX2 series have been my choice for awhile now. Several reasons, with clarity and fast focus eye piece, being part of it. And if Mike McCourry says the VX2's are bullet proof, that's all I need to know.
I thought to myself when you bought the CZ rimfire, that rifle just says Charlie all over it.

It's definitely a keeper Jim.
I actually liked the looks of the 4X but it's accuracy potential deserved a little more scope soooooo.

Matter of fact I like it so much I sprung for a Timney trigger and and a machined trigger guard.
 
Originally Posted By: desertcjI just have a 3-9x40 on my 22. Works for me and I've killed a lot of squirrels with it. How far away are you making all these head shots? Just curious. That's some fine shooting.

50yds. or closer. On an average I would say 25 to 30yds. I always use tree's as a rest, never free hand.
 
Originally Posted By: desertcjI just have a 3-9x40 on my 22. Works for me and I've killed a lot of squirrels with it. How far away are you making all these head shots? Just curious. That's some fine shooting.

30-40 yards. We run a dog and get on shooting sticks and shoot them.
 
24x verses 6x at 50yds. 2 different rifles, cleaned then shot with ammo they loved.



And a 6X Burris again at 40yds.



and again........



for me the 6X scope with a set parallax at 100ft or 40yds. is perfect.
 


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