Need advice on new .22LR optic

GWarden

Active Member
So I am looking to upgrade my scope for my Kimber .22 Hunter Bolt action rifle. Right now it wears a Nikon 2x7x32
The rifle is very accurate and I am looking to get some thing with a lot more magnification. I think 12 power would be the minimum on the high end.
Budget would be probably around $400-$500
I’m thinking some sort of Leupold. Am I missing another viable option? I would love to hear your opinions please. Thank you. Walter. View attachment 8361View attachment 8362View attachment 8363View attachment 8364
I have an older Kimber 82L(left hand action) Lots of good scopes to pick from. What you are looking for, and something that fits in with the size of the rifle. Putting a large scope on a rifle like the Kimber just can look out of place. I ended up with a Burris scope that has an adjustable AO and 4.5-14X- 32mm. It is a Timberline in the Burris scope.
Bob
Iowa
 

GWarden

Active Member
With the Burris having an objective lens of only 32mm, you are able to have the scope sit low on the rifle.
Bob
 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
I stumbled across a show with Bob Ross, who I had never heard of, doing one of his paintings. I was
amazed at what he could do with a couple of daubs and strokes....suddenly there is a mountainside, or
a couple of trees. Then there is a swoosh and a babbling brook appears. Takes a special eye and
some real talent, IMO.

I consult with an art museum, and have spent time working to repair and rebuild a lot of large
outdoor art pieces. Had a few lunches with the artists, and had to play nice. Dingbats, near as I
can tell. After about Monet, IMO you can just burn pretty much all the newer "famous painter" stuff
and make the world a better place.

But then, I'm an engineer, not an artist. Thank goodness.

Bill
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
years back I had a job working for a crane company driving truck for them.

we went up to sun valley [ski resort town here in Idaho] to pick up some sort of sculpture.
I had backed my truck down this guys driveway and was waiting for the crane to pick up this big chunk of rusted plate steel bent into a curve sitting by a couple of other bent pieces.
these pieces were like 8' tall by 12' long and bent into about an 8th circle.
I was like well okay those must be the back drop and the art part goes in front of them.
no...no they were it,,, like 1.2 million worth of rusty bent metal 'art work'.

now the kick.
we had to haul each piece on separate trailers so the art didn't get scuffed by another piece knocking the rust off.
my job was to get to the bottom, go through down town and down the driveway in reverse, then drive back out of there and drop the trailers at the end of the winding highway for some other drivers to take to wherever they were going in California.
I got double pay and a daily expense.

I could have just drove in and turned around in the guy's pasture [which is what I started doing to speed things up on the third piece] heck anyone that could shift gears and not hit anything driving through the narrow street in town could have done the job.
 

popper

Well-Known Member
6-24 nikon on 308 works too.
One of my most interesting classes in school was history of architecture. Actually got me back interested in all history. Guess my minors would be math, world history and advanced communication (math theory). They did mail me a paper that said BSEE.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
got a kick today at the range, and immediately thought about this thread.
I was shooting one of the houses that doesn't get used too often and when I got to station 3 I looked down and seen Bob Ross stamped into the cement.
I couldn't stop giggling thinking about him painting all the dead grass and sagebrush between the trap house and straight up poplar trees 3 miles away, against the snow peaked mountains in the back round.
 

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
I was not gifted with pictorial artistic talent. At all. Thankfully, there are SLR cameras to capture images with.