Thread: Scope for 22LR

Originally Posted by johnd

i always find these quotes very interesting, can you elaborate? how many shooters and over what amount of hours?
Just curious what it takes to gun down 1000 bunnies in an "evening"

Ah, those were the days. Rabbits a bit of a problem at the time. Lots of sore thumbs and fingers from reloading mags. At one point I was shooting a small area, a triangle about 30m each side, and knocked over 109 in 45 minutes as I sat eating my sandwiches. Turn my lights off and have a feed while refilling mags. I'm eating and hear this "rip, rip, rip" around me as they were having a snack all around me as well. Take a note of where the sounds was coming from, flick on the lights and "pop, pop, pop" till the mags were empty. Rinse, repeat. Alas we have to work a lot harder for a lot less nowadays.

I was using a 4-16x40 mildot scope in the $300 range. Flash optics are not that necessary. With the torches and headlamps we can turn night into day well beyond any rimfire range. I liked the higher magnification for the range and would dial back to 4x for rabbit shooting out to 110m. Hit rate was above 95% to that range because we were so familiar with the terrain and targets and the rifles with their preferred ammo.