SCOPE CONSIDERATIONS

After looking at the guns that I currently use, I thought it might be interesting to now consider more closely the scopes that I choose to use and why I have chosen to use them.

Before we consider that though, let us remind ourselves just what we require from our optics. It is no good using a high-power 45x magnification scope for plinking with as it is just too powerful. Nor is the mega-high magnification optic suitable for hunting duties.

Decades ago the ‘normal’ sized scope we used for everything was usually of four times magnification, often with a 20mm objective lens, but more likely to be of 32mm diameter. This slowly increased in size until 40mm became the average