Do You Need a Rimfire Scope? ~ What's the Difference? 

Every video is an advanced class that goes explores origins, I'm just a Plinker not a hunter at all and find your content excellent.

I never knew there was a difference between rimfire scopes and standard rifle scopes. Thank you for your knowledge and wisdom! You are the most knowledgeable channel on RU-vid for firearms information.

Spot on. I've been shooting for 55 years, and am still learning. Thanks for sharing your considerable knowledge, Captain.

Once again I'm grateful for you taking the time to share your knowledge as I always learn something and my use of firearms always benefits.

Cheers Gunblue :) I do pest control down here in Australia, compete at my club and shoot pistols, rifles and shotguns. Consider myself knowledgeable to an extent. I am still in awe of the way you effortlessly discuss your topics. I wish I could articulate things the way you do to new shooters. I've done my best and forwarded on links to some of the new guys when i know i am not quite conveying what i mean, particularly around selecting calibers etc. Makes my life easier! Cheers

I wanted to thank you for these great videos full of valuable information. I tested my first 9mm loads yesterday with great success. I learned so much and got multiple reloading books as you suggested. My 18yr old son is now learning this tradition.

I always wondered what that was about, thank you! Also, I want to thank you for all your videos regarding reloading, I recently sold my business and have sort of retired and have taken up reloading. I now have the time to devote to it, and it was a blessing finding your channel! Thanks again and say hi to Benny, hope all is well!

So glad youre still making content. Always informative, always concise, always a good watch!!!

Thank you for answering my question and doing it with a video as well. Your explanations made sense! You answered what I had in mind and so much more. I originally had bought a Leupold rim fire scope (2-7×magnification) for my marlin 39A golden mounty. After a few years I put it on a marlin 1894 in 44rem (1st gun I purchased at 18yrs!) for deer hunting without a thought as to if the extreme difference in recoil would damage the scope in any way. After a few years the thought did occur to me, but no one seemed able to really know if it would be a problem with continued use in this way. Didn't see any problems with accuracy. It was just nagging my thoughts. Something that needed to be addressed. Turns out it doesn't damage them! Your recent scope videos jogged that question again when you mentioned rimfire scopes. Very much appreciate those videos!

I remember as a school kid back in the early 80's here in the UK manually adjusting the parallax down to 40 yards on a Nikko Sterling scope which came with parallax fixed @ 100yds, i needed to make the change for use on a HW80 spring air rifle, I did this by using a tool I made in the school metalwork shop to wind the objective lens in and out, I discovered when looking at the front of the scope thatthere were notches in the metal ring around the edge of the lens to allow this, it took a few minutes to do but it worked a treat - thanks for the memory

Really love all your content. I watch for hours at a time. A very Merry Christmas to you and your family. Look forward to more videos next year.

Thank you for your explanation, very clear and easy to understand....the best yet I came across, I just bought two scopes on sale and was glad to go rimfire specific for my new 10/22 Ruger 2-7 35 v-plex...you have just confirmed my intuition with your knowledge, thanks again sir. Salute

I do not understand it, I can sit here and watch your video(s) for hours on end and simply enjoy them and learn so much! Thank you for sharing. G'Bless! - PJohnson

Thank you. Nothing better than knowing the facts and the background that supports the facts.

Very helpful information. Stuff I sort of knew but never put it all together with comprehensive understanding. I look forward to your videos. May God Bless you and your family, Merry Christmas to all!

That was the best and most simple explanation of parallax Ive ever heard thank you

Great information, like always! Thanks. Best wishes from Bulgaria. Merry Christmas and a Happy New year 🎉

Couldn’t agree with you more. You definitely know what you’re talking about. What I find when using a 22 with subsonic ammo. Is a dedicated. Scope with the bullet drop calculated. On the reticule great video thanks

Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us! Merry Christmas to you and yours too!

Thank you for another great video. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. God bless you and your family

Terrific video. Thank you. I just remember many comments over the years that rimfire scopes can fall apart if you mount them on a 3006-type recoiling rifle. I never thought of parallax. Merry Christmas from -30 C. Cache Creek, B.C. Canada.

As usual, so much useful information. Thank you and God bless. Merry Christmas.

Thank you for this. I'm scope-shopping for a 1948-manufactured Marlin 39a and this is very useful.

Thanks for another informative video, complete with some gun tech history. Merrry Christmas to you and the whole family!

Merry Christmas to you and yours and thanks for the video!

Great explanation. Thank you, and Merry Christmas!

incredibly well laid out and very easy to understand. thanks for the explanation!

Hmmm wish I would have seen your video few weeks ago. Just purchased a CZ 22WMR 457 America. Bought a vortex crossfire 11 4-12×44, B.D.C reticle, Warner rings. Out to the range with several different types of ammo. Although the P.O.I. was different with each type of ammo, I was pretty impressed with the groups and the accuracy of this rifle. Now my Area 419 scope base has arrived (15 moa) had to change the rings. Vortex pro series low. Haven't been to the range yet. Was really excited about my setup until I watched this video, now I don't know if I've made the wrong choices with this setup. I intended to enter in some of the rimfire shooting competitions at my local range in the hunter class. The target ranges are 100 and also 200yds, that's why I went with the higher power scope. Really enjoy your videos. Thanks again.

I just happened to be watching your video on how to adjust your sights on a lever action and this popped up. I've been debating on installing a scope on my 1972 9422m, love the rifle and its incredibly accurate.

Another great video, thank you. Of course I have an AO (Leupold EFR) scope on my 10/22. I like to target shoot at various near distances so it is imperative to have AO or side focus.

Very informative. You're a great teacher and very knowledgeable. Thank you for taking the time to share this knowledge with us.

Thank you for a clear and informative presentation. I'm going shopping for a 22 scope soon and now I'll be a much smarter shopper. Merry Christmas.

I could listen to this guy talk and tell stories for hours!!

Another wonderful and very informative video…just love your content and explanations. I too have the same Hawks scope on my springer…love it. Thank you for sharing your depth of knowledge with us. God bless.

Merry Christmas and God Bless! Love to see you do a video with Hickok 45 or another RU-vidr.

I have a regular rifle fixed 4 power Nikon on my 22 and it works really well for me I hardly notice the parallax although I am sure that it is present but it doesn’t seem to bother me I can shoot a 5 shot group at 50 yards and have one hole . I wish that I knew one tenth of the things that you know about firearms . Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us .

Thanks for putting this information out there. I was surprised when I went to my local Cabela's to buy a scope for my Italian made Weatherby Mark xxii semi auto and the sales clerk tried to sell me a centerfire scope. If I didn't know better I probably would have bit just based on the paper specs like most. As it turns out I have that very same Leupold 4 power fixed mounted on it as you have on your CZ. Merry Christmas GB.

Thank you for your well-presented and very important information.

This is important stuff for scope selection. I'm gonna check out the parallax on my son's rifle scope now.

I loved last years 1932 Christmas video. I’m really hoping you can do another Christmas video this year!

Hi GunBlue, love your channel a ton. Any chance you’ll be doing another Christmas “throw back” video? That’s a favorite of mine. Merry Christmas and God Bless.

Thank you for your content,and excellent knowledge, and presentation! Always interesting,and informative!🤔👏😁

Another great video from the voice of experience. Hope Bennie is doing well.

While I didn't get a dedicated rimfire scope for my CZ 455 Full Stock, I put on a Simmons Blazer 3-9X40 that came as a package scope with a Stevens 200 .25-06, and probably a centerfire scope, but cheap. Does well however, shooting quarter size target dots consistently blacking them out at 50 yards. I do have a Beeman Silver Kodiak break-barrel air rifle that came with 2 barrels and a Beeman 4X32 scope that I could swap out. One of my first pellet air Rifles was an RWS in .177 only with only iron sights. No idea whatever happened to it. Great air rifle of good quality.

I wish I had been able to view this content a few years ago when I was researching scopes for my newly purchased 10/22. I came to about the same conclusions and purchased a Nikon Prostaff P3 Target EFR 3-9x40 AO. I don't believe they are still available, but it works great with the adjustable parallax feature.

Thank you for sharing your wisdom with the rest of us!

Finally someone I trust in, answers this question.

★ Thank you for that. Much appreciated. I also like the fixed 4X for 'most' shooting in rimfire. Good video!

That’s a another great video you’ve just got to carry on you’re knowledge and videos have been a great point of knowledge to me over the years, I use the Hawke scopes on my rimfire with side adjustable parallax. I’ve upset a few benchrest shooters using my CZ. A lot believe you can buy accuracy 😂😂, the shot is as good as the shooter, please keep on with the videos

I always wondered, thought it was a construction difference. Thanks again!

Mr. R, yesterday a RU-vid video popped up on my TV as recommended for me and don’t know why but the title intrigued me. The only center fire rifle I’ve seriously reloaded for is my 1993 Remington 700 Classic in .222 Remington. The RU-vid channel is, The Real Gunsmith, 12 days ago. The title was Properly Sizing Cases. I found it informative. You may use the same method…I don’t know.

I learned this the hard way. I tried putting a centerfire rifle scope on my 22 bolt action and I had trouble focusing on things at 25-50yrds and sometimes 100yrds depending on zoom. It was disappointing because I wanted to be able to do some crazy ballistic feats with the 22 slug. Unless you have a scope with adjustable parallax, you'll have to get a rimfire specific optic.

you learn so much from this guys channel i love this guy if america had 1 million of this guy wed be ok

1st time watching this channel. Subscribed.

I like those old 3/4" Weaver scopes, I've collected a few.

Thanks for sharing, you are a wealth of good information! 👍

Thanks for the info. I have been mounting centerfire scopes on my rimfires for decades. Never noticing any issues. But since you've pointed out the differences, I want to find a good quality rimfire scope and try it out. Back in the day, when money was tight, I would mount whatever was available at my local gun shop in the used section. Then I simply learned how that rifle shot best with the equipment I could afford. I always liked the larger field of view through a centerfire scope. I now own 2 extremely accurate rimfires: a Savage 17HMR and an antique Western Field pump 22lr (open sights). When I bought that old pump gun, I figured it would be used up but was I ever wrong. That rifle is way more accurate than I am able to shoot it. I find it a bit disheartening that the younger generations don't get the opportunities to spend long hours with their firearms. Of course, some do but not in the same mass numbers like when I was young. My buddies and I would spend all day shooting our 22's and pellet rifles at ground squirrels, gophers, dump rats, pigeons and anything else that needed population control at the time. To this day, those guys can shoot very well. Most of them can't see well anymore though....lol. Even these days, when I get a little bored, I'll take my pellet rifle out back and shoot grasshoppers while enjoying my favorite beverage. It's a great way to kill a little time and help control the hopper population.

I love you blue no homo, learned so much from you. Happy new year and merry Christmas. Brother man. God bless you you’re family and you’re dogs.

Merry Christmas and Happy New!!

I have a few guns in the UK (grew up on a farm). Also a believer in less is more, but I use rimfires to try out new ideas - now running a small prismatic on a Volquartsen 10/22, and, dare I say it, a burris eliminator laserscope gen2 (the small 3-10×40 they briefly made) on my 17hmr. The later is the greatest setup I've ever used on rabbits in apple orchards - rapidly varying ranges. And there's nothing wrong with putting fancy scopes on a rimfire if you can.

Outstanding explanation. Thank you, Sir. Subscribed

This guy is a pleasure to watch to listen too. great stuff GB490.🙂

I know you and many other people don't like a scope on a lever action rifle, especially a .22LR. But, with my eyesight I have no other choice if I want to shoot at all. So I have a Hawke Airmax 4-12 AO scope with a very fine reticle on my Winchster 9244 .22LR. It works for me.

Its getting so mundane - just one excellent video after another - thanks 👍🏻 😊

I have a Leupold FX series rimfire scope (2.5x) on my CZ 452, great combination.

Wow the very first rifle I ever had was given to me by my Dad. Remington 572 fieldmaster pump 22. Wish I still had that gun.

Thank you for you knowledge, perfectly explained

My first gun was a single shot .22 O.F. Mossburg with the Weaver 7/8 tube with tip-off mounts. And yes, tear drop plastic turret caps in 4X.

I bought a bsa sweet 17 scope for my savage .17 hmr. I'm liking it.

Thank you for the easy explanation.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge great video

Thanks for sharing another great video 👍

I bought a new Miroku made Browning T-bolt as soon as they were advertised about ten years ago. Leupold makes a rimfire 3-9 scope that is scaled down and looks great.

thanks for this information. I will put it to good use.

Thank you for your excellent videos. They are amongst the very best on RU-vid. I have a question I’m hoping you can answer. I have an old (circa 1960’s) Colt single-shot rifle. I used it extensively for short-range hunting when I was young and always with iron sights. Now that I’m 70 years old and wanting to get into target shooting, I’m finding it very difficult to use the iron sights on account of my no longer 20/20 vision. I can’t seem to find any eyeglasses that work well and I also find that my glasses fog up quickly. Hence I’m starting to consider adding a scope in the hope I can shoot accurately again. Any tips you can offer on types of scopes that may make sense, and whether to wear glasses focused for near or long distance, will be greatly appreciated. - Thanks again! - Jim

I have always purchased Air rifle scopes which are limited in quality so now I can venture into rimfire scopes for my Air rifle thanks to your video.

Good Job Pops! Wish the younger kids would listen to all the wisdom you have on shooting. You can't hear this when buying a gun in a sporting goods store anymore! Take care !!

Like i said, i learn something new everyday. Thank you sir for pointing that out.

Thank you for covering this topic. A lot of people, especially hunters (in my experience), don't generally understand parallax since it doesn't really matter for medium to large game. I always have to steer people away from standard/entry centerfire scopes with 100/150 yard fixed parallax for their 22LRs (or rimfires in general). The amount of error introduced at 20 yards from a 150 yard fixed parallax is massive. I often advise a lightweight, inexpensive rimfire scope for 22s as they tend to work well.

Your wisdom is appreciated

I currently have three .22s. Two Ruger 10/22s and an old Western Auto Revelation single shot .22. Both the Rugers have high power rifle scopes and the single shot has a .22 scope. The single shot stays out in the tack room of the barn and we use .22 shorts in it. The 10/22s have 1.5 x 4 power 40 mm scopes due to the clarity and field of view I get with them

Great perspective. Thanks!

Thank you for the explanation.

Looks like a similar set up to my 457, GB. 457 American with 2-7 vx freedom rimfire and it’s my favourite rifle in my safe

Merry Christmas and all the best in the new year! Thanks for all the videos, hope we see more in 2023. Cheers!

Another fine scope explanation.

That was a very good video I learned something

A great source of information science plus experience-based informative No Nonsense information thanks gunblue

You're the best Chief

I bought all my guns, ammo, and reloading before 1984 from paper route money. It was good work for a youngster and okay into manhood. Threw papers for 12 years from 12-24, 365 days a year, morning and afternoon for 10 then the afternoon paper went kaput. I have a K-6 Weaver on a Glenfield mod. 25. It won me a couple of rimfire silhouette trophies against rifles and scopes costing 5X as much. And squirrels had no chance within eyesight of that rifle.

Scopes can be very confusing and difficult for many; you made a very good explanation here. You seem to be a guy I would love to have breakfast with at the local pancake house. Talking guns 🙂

I own a CZ 452 Ultra Lux with a 4x rimfire Leupold. It's the best combo for squirrels I've ever had the privilege of owning especially with such a low noise report. I also like the old rimfire Japanese Tascos. I sight in at 25-30 yds instead of 60 for headshots with 4x. I'll shoot out to 50 with this combo; any further I prefer more magnification.

Great answer Have merry christmas

I have Vortex Diamondbacks 2-7*35 Rimfire, 50yd Parallax, 60+ ft FOV on a Marlin 60 and on my Marlin 1894 44Mag/44Spl. 😀

This is solid advice. As a airgun field target shooter, I would add something, that I don't know if many rimfire and centerfire shooters would be interested in, but I never use a rule of thumb for figuring out what distance to zero at, I use math based on my actual real world trajectory. My zero for my target rig is set to be the highest point of my trajectory in relation to my line of sight. This is because I rangefind and then dial for every distance and I really don't like how messy things get when I have to dial down from my zero as well as up. For a hunting airgun setup, I'm going to specify a "killzone" of a specific size, that I think is reasonable for the critter I'm going after, and I'm then going to zero in the center of that, which means that my trajectory will go half the size of my killzone above the line of sight and then back down again. This means I have a large range between the minimum and maximum range I can shoot with no holdover or elevation adjustment because critters don't usually sit around like targets do. But I always let the combination of scope height and trajectory dictate my zero distance, whereas almost all my fellow shooters use a the conventional wisdom, which is usually 25 yards with an airgun for FT shooting, or maybe 30 to 40 yards with a high powered hunting airgun. This is madness to me, because they start with an arbitrary number and then build their dope chart around that. Maybe I'm just pedantic, but I like my dope chart to be as clean and simple as possible.

I thought it was just recoil tolerance, good to know! Thanks!

Thanks I’m a Blue Collar Guy This Scope stuff confuses the sht. out of me 🤓 your breakdown is very understandable Laymans terms Easy to Follow Sometimes less is more or simplified info.👍🏻👍🏻 I do like a monster scope for benched Puts Target in my lap Eyes are getting worse. Interesting how your Newer Vids You look younger Must be the water.🇺🇸🎯

You are very smart my friend!

Believe me, hunters & sport Shooters know much more than today’s guys behind counter. On different occasions, I had to shake my head to the inadequate knowledge most of them have about guns, scopes, bullets and shots. I’m telling one just for the hike of it. I asked for a certain sabot slug I was looking for 385 grains. I asked the guy to check the box to see how heavy the slug is for accuracy before purchasing. He replied “sir it says 385 Grams. And I didn’t know either to laugh, or cry for that answer knowing each gram is 15. + grain that multiplied by 385 = 5900 grains-+. 13.5 once 😊 Every time I go hunting stores, especially big box stores, I say to myself, this owner, manager must be a tree hugger/anti hunter/liberal/ democrat/vegan… you name it. Thank you sir for your time and effort to give us knowledge & wisdom

Thank you, Worthy Brother. I'll consider a scope for my rimfire.