Thread: Scope for 22LR

Originally Posted by viper

I shoot around 600 rabbits a month and the scope 95% of the time is left at 4 x power.

Brings back memories of my teenage years when I shot a few thousand rabbits on Lands and Survey farms around Taupo. There were just so many rabbits that niceties didn't need to come into it and of course AO scopes etc didn't exist. Most of those were shot early on with open sights and later with a 4x20 (like looking thru a length of waterpipe) Nikko Stirling scope. Later on I seriously upgraded to a 4x28 Nikko Stirling Tiara.
A good centrefire scope was 4x. In fact for a long while I used a 3x Leupold. Shot many Tahr with a 4x scope. Now I giggle when I see posts where shooters are concerned about being underscoped with a say 4-12 varipower....And I guess that is fair enough when you come upon your once in a lifetime trophy. You need all the advantage you can get.