Thread: Scopes for rimfire hunting rifles

Originally Posted by 10-Ring

After using many .22 LR rifles for over 50 years and having had many different scope configurations from junk, to Zeiss Diatal, I've finally settled on a Leupold FXII 6x34 to use on my Anschutz 54 (1422). It's not inexpensive at around $600 but is light and doesn't give any trouble. I changed the fixed parallax from 150m to 50m and can easily head shoot rabbits up to 100m or more with a rest, good ammo and reasonably calm conditions.

Gave up on the Xmas tree reticles and vari-power scopes and also the adjustable objective scopes. Too much weight and mucking around.

That's great. I too like fixed power scopes and always thought that 6 power is about right for a .22. However none have parallax set at 50m, so I got a Nikon Prostaff rimfire fixed 4 power. Parallax is set at 45 yards on it. Nice scope but not quite enough power. I was not aware that one could adjust parallax but have just googled it and seems straight forward enough.
Thanks for the food for thought.

Originally Posted by Dama dama

.... I was not aware that one could adjust parallax but have just googled it and seems straight forward enough.....

It's only possible to do on certain fixed power scopes. Leupold is one brand that's quite easy to do. I bought a Boa Strap Lid Remover 100mm Strap Wrench ($21 from Bunnings) to remove the objective ring, that is the part forward of the gold ring, as it makes the job easy. You then just turn the exposed threaded section by hand a small part at a time until you get the parallax for the distance you want. Anti-clockwise to shorten the parallax.