Thread: As someone who is getting into hunting, what rifle should I invest more money into?

22 shooting is less demanding than centrefire so you can get by with more basic gear. And the market isn't inflated.
A JW15 will be good for at least 10 years till you could benefit from something better. I'm guessing from just applying for FAL that you're young and will have more income in a decade than now (hopefully ...) Scope requirements are not nearly so demanding in ruggedness and waterproofness. A Leupold 2-7 would be good but Tasco, Hawke and Nikko Stirling will be fine. The main thing you might want to look at is closer focus as a lot of centrefire scopes are fixed at about 100m or even more so a bit blurry up close. You fix that by having "parallax adjustment" but its another gizmo feature and difficult to do well in a budget scope. I'd be inclined to leave that for a future upgrade.