Thread: Scope for 22LR

Hmmmm - Good topic and great suggestions.

I recently squaded with "Jake" who won the 22 Jungle Lane shoot down here (and he's won it previously and always seems close to the top of the leaderboard at the Sparrowhawk shoots) . His gear was very basic, a Norinco 22 and a Ranger 3-9 scope with mil-dots.

We had a detailed chat about parallax and he was of the opinion that it wasn't required on a 22 with up to 9x. I took from our discussion that as good technique is critical to shooting a 22 well and if you have that then parallax was less important, as consistent cheek placement etc means its not going to punish you much. His scope was set to 50M (most scopes can be user adjusted, its not complicated, but you can't do it on the fly).

Previously I'd been an AO advocate on everything for target shooting but now I'd be happy to go without (up to 9x anyway)!