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.