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I'd choose a scope suitable for the rifle's purpose and accuracy potential. I've killed several pickup loads of jackrabbits using a run-of-the-mill rimfire rifle with a cheap 3-9x on it, and I've shot ragged hole groups at 50 yards with my 52 repro wearing a VX-3 4.5-14x40 with AO. I think AO is well worth having on an accurate .22 rifle, at least for shooting paper.

I'm thinking AO or side focus as well, and something in the 3-12x range probably. It's a bone stock 10/22 that I just shoot targets, rabbits, etc, no competitions.

Agree.

DF

2-7 viper and 2-7 vx1

I've got an old Tasco 2-7x32, a WA27X32, that came to me on an old Remington 512. It has been a reliable scope for the 15 years that I've owned it, even though I don't shoot it much. It was my FIL's barn gun that he used for shooting pigeons and rats.

I'd choose a scope suitable for the rifle's purpose and accuracy potential.......... I'm with River Rider on this one. It just depends on your plans. My unmodified 10/22 is just a small game & plinking gun so a high dollar scope isn't really necessary. Put on a cheap BSA 2-7x 32mm back in 1997 as a "temporary" type deal. But it's still on there because the gun & scope combo is accurate enough for my usage and I got to liking it. When this scope quits I'll start looking at others. I like the 2-7x range for my general all around use and a couple years ago wound up putting a 2-7x Vortex on a CZ-455 in 22lr and I could see one on my 10/22 if that BSA ever dies.

Have a Nikon Prostaff 2-7x32 on mine. Perfect size imo

Don't snicker, JG but I have a Simmons 22 MAG 3-9x32 AO on my 10/22. It has withstood bricks and bricks of ammo thru use at Hunter Safety courses and a KAMO program, plus the plinking and dispatching varmints around the place.

Hey, if it works...

DF

Wow! I have a couple regular 10/22s and a couple Chargers and thought I might have been over-doing it a little.......thanks for making me feel so conservative!!

Not an expensive scope, but the Bushnell A17, 3.5-10x36AO, that I've bought from CDNN for $50 have worked well.

Not really bright enough for late dusk or early dawn hunting, but fine for most daylight casual shooting/hunting situations.

Here's another EFR 3-9x33 A/O on a loooong CZ 2500, a rather unusual rifle with 29" barrel. This one has a Timney trigger, is really accurate and quiet with that long tube.

DF

I'm in no position to laugh at someone like yourself who continually kills quality animals. I wouldn't anyway because I have a coonass buddy that hunts whitetails with me up in the TX Panhandle with his old Sako 30/06 topped with a Simmons 44Mag scope. He kills the crap out of nice bucks and hogs. It works.

I’ve got Nikon Prostaff 3-9x40’s on both of mine. No complaints here. If I was to buy another I’d probably put a VX-Freedom on it.

JG, just the other day, I killed one of those "quality" animals you mentioned.

Niiiiiice.........WTH is it? We don't have those here....... I'm a desert rat.

It is a immature ground hog.

Demo Tract Turion/Tekoa

Mine has a Weaver classic K4, I like it.

Aimpoint.