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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.
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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.
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I think AO is well worth having on an accurate .22 rifle, at least for shooting paper. Agree. DF
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All of them do something better than the 30-06, but none of them do everything as well.
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Many on here will laugh, but I have a couple older , Made in Japan, Tasco 3x9x32 that is bullet proof. They are small enough for the 10-22, or any .22, and work really well. I don't know about the newer Chinese made ones, but the Jap made ones were good little scopes. .Another good thing is they are cheap to buy used! 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.
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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.
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Have a Nikon Prostaff 2-7x32 on mine. Perfect size imo
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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.
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Hey, if it works... DF
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^^^^^^^ Are all of those still in the stable? Like 10/22 rifles much? Currently have 17 of them on the books. 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!!
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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.
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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
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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. 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.
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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.
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JG, just the other day, I killed one of those "quality" animals you mentioned.
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Niiiiiice.........WTH is it? We don't have those here....... I'm a desert rat.
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It is a immature ground hog.
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Mine has a Weaver classic K4, I like it.
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So what are you guys scoping your 10/22's with nowadays? Aimpoint.
I should have just bought a [bleep] T3...
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