Hunting scopes

[ribbonstone]

Going to come down on the side of small scopes for the QB's.  Tried three yesterday, and the short lite scope does make loading a little harder (not a whole lot...not eough to matter to me) but fit the use of the rifles well.  Will leave the long scopes on the heavier 2078's as they seem to compliment the balance rather than distrub it.

In the AM tried an older Simmons 6-18X:


Settled on a little 6X with paralax adjusted to 30yards.


Are lots of combinations that will work...the QB has a long reciever and will accept nearly any scope....but how you'll use it really decides what scope is "best".  This little rifle gets used for hunting, and for that use the little 6X is still a compromise...might try the same scope in 4X.

[shadow]

That's nice to know, my tuned QB78 from Mike Melick of (Flying Dragon Airrifles) Monday. Ed

I have a barska 6.5-20x50 w/AO on my ar2078. LOVE THAT SCOPE. Very clear and was cheep. I think we paid about $50 from sprotsmans guide for it. And the AO works pretty damn neat if you ask me

I usually only use 6.5 for hunting. Maybe 12 if i have a steady rest. HTe 20x is only for targets  

[ribbonstone]

Use a big scope on my 2078 as well.  Rifle isn't quite so fast-handling, so the extra mass/length isn't an issue.
This one is wearing a 10X42 30mm scope...works fine for me.  Kind of hunting this one does is more static than roaming; likely to be used to pick off pest birds from one spot than to be wandering the woods looking for squirrels.