You may not be able to get it focused at 25 yds or less.
Yep, find a used scope with an AO.
unless i miss understand the intentions of the original poster, he is looking for something a bit more user friendly and lighter for a woods - walking around rifle. the 2-7 variables in rimfire configuration (parallax set to 50 yrds) will end up giving him what he is wanting. i had the same criteria for my tree rat wacker and i immediately ruled out a AO scope for these reasons.
