[Mr. Chitlin]

I agree with the others. For rimfire the 9x on the high side should do just fine. If you just feel that you need more power, you could step up to 10x to 12x on the high side.

 

[Mr. Chitlin]

I had a TV View Japanese 4x on my 10/22 for years. Man I killed a bunch of squirrels with that rig. The little duplex hair broke and hung down slightly. I still used it until one day the zero shifted. That was the end of it. Good times indeed.

I still have an old Japanese Tasco 4x TV view on one of my 22's. Probably the first scope I ever bought and I'm sure it's somewhere over 40 years old.

 

[Mr. Chitlin]

View attachment 159820 Like 3x9 Tasco scopes on my hunting 22s.
Keep on 6 power most of the time.
Also like see through mounts.
Cannot see iron sights like I use to.
A little range tuning.

Is that your range or a private/public range? Good looking spot.

 

[Mr. Chitlin]

Maybe I'm in the minority, but mines only ever had a fixed 4x32 Tasco. And to think when I put that on 20+ years ago, it was a huge upgrade from the 20mm scope I had before that.

I remember those little 4x20mm scopes that came on 22 rifles years ago. I had an old Marlin 99M1 that had one on it. I was squirrel hunting in Big Lake bottoms when I was a teenager and it was a cloudy day. I couldn't see crap thru that little 20 mm scope. I took my pocket knife out, unscrewed the scope mounts and gave it a sling across the woods. I guess after 40+ years it's still out there somewhere.

 

[Mr. Chitlin]

It's a good looking range for sure. I'd love to have something like that in my back yard one day.

 

[Mr. Chitlin]

I'm running a Simmons AETEC 2.83.8x1012x44AO on my 17 HMR.

ETA: corrected the scope specs.

 

[Mr. Chitlin]

I’ve also got a couple of those 2.8-10x Aetec scopes. One is on my Savage MKII and the other is still in the box waiting on a rifle.

I've got probably a half dozen of them on everything from the 17 HMR to a 300 Win Mag. All have worked just fine for me.