Need scope/mount advice - Ruger 10/22

[SteyrAUG]

Disciple, there was also plenty of note that the European and Japanese markets frown on hunting.


Also found another option I'm considering... SWFA has a Konus Pro T-30 for $108 on their 50%-off sale. https://www.swfa.com/konus-3-9x40-ko...iflescope.html

Budget Italian can't be worse than Budget Chinese. At that price probably worth taking a chance.

[Diamondback]

Anyone here have any experience with Viridian's scopes? I was just eyeing a Lyxa at OpticsPlanet, and wondered if they might be worth considering. I know the EON models are what Ruger ships on factory-scoped rifles...

[Diamondback]

Update: Ended up with a Viridian Eon, assuming Brown gets it past the construction barricades--a part-out shop I've done business with before (Matt at S&P Outfitters, who supplied the receiver and several other parts toward this build) just got a batch of factory-scoped 10/22's in for teardown and offered me a sweetheart deal. Next problem, finding a cantilever mount to clear the scope rings, either on its own or in tandem with a 1/2" QD riser...

[SteyrAUG]

Update: Ended up with a Viridian Eon, assuming Brown gets it past the construction barricades--a part-out shop I've done business with before (Matt at S&P Outfitters, who supplied the receiver and several other parts toward this build) just got a batch of factory-scoped 10/22's in for teardown and offered me a sweetheart deal. Next problem, finding a cantilever mount to clear the scope rings, either on its own or in tandem with a 1/2" QD riser...

Why not just get throw rings?

[Diamondback]

Why not just get throw rings?

If you mean rings with throw levers for QD, my concern would be keeping alignment while dismounted--and that was a typo, I had meant "to clear rear sight" not "clear scope rings." Weird week here, not sure how I'm keeping my head screwed on semi-straight--just found out that the Shitty Engineer is erasing my part of my street from existence except for a stub connecting my driveway to the end of a loop. (Current layout looks like a D, new will be an upside-down G--and worse, the turns and the roundabout as they've redesigned our connection to the city street system are too tight for fire trucks to have access.)

[SteyrAUG]

If you mean rings with throw levers for QD, my concern would be keeping alignment while dismounted--and that was a typo, I had meant "to clear rear sight" not "clear scope rings."

So I made sure I had them "in case" and in 15 years I've never needed to QD them. Not sure an expensive throw lever mount for a 10/22 is where I'd put my money. For a real rifle with real recoil, sure. I don't have irons anyway and I don't think I'll ever actually need to remove those scopes for any reason.

[Diamondback]

So I made sure I had them "in case" and in 15 years I've never needed to QD them. Not sure an expensive throw lever mount for a 10/22 is where I'd put my money. For a real rifle with real recoil, sure. I don't have irons anyway and I don't think I'll ever actually need to remove those scopes for any reason.

Solution ended up being one of my spare QD risers combined with a Weaver cantilever I found at Walmart today for forty bucks. With my eyes, this particular build and the eyebox a backward cant is the only thing that brings the scope back far enough to be usable.



Steyr, it also helps to note that your setups like the supermajority of the world's firearms are "set it once, leave it and run it" as oppposed to a quick-change "modular weapons system" that also needs to teardown and pack in a briefcase or laptop case.

[MarshallDodge]

That works.

I have one of these on my 10/22
https://www.ebay.com/itm/292704539951

For $80, they are a really good value, with clear glass and mil dots for holding at distances from a 50 yard zero out to 180 yards.

[SteyrAUG]

Solution ended up being one of my spare QD risers combined with a Weaver cantilever I found at Walmart today for forty bucks. With my eyes, this particular build and the eyebox a backward cant is the only thing that brings the scope back far enough to be usable.



Steyr, it also helps to note that your setups like the supermajority of the world's firearms are "set it once, leave it and run it" as oppposed to a quick-change "modular weapons system" that also needs to teardown and pack in a briefcase or laptop case.

Actually yours looks pretty good and if it breaks down and returns to zero when assembled you are good to go.

I almost got a third 10/22 when they came out with the breakdown models but .22 can prices got absurd.

[Diamondback]

You're gonna laugh... I actually have a frickin' entire rainbow of paint pens to apply various witness marks and alignment indicators...
*Rear sight - 3 for windage to correspond to different barrel/front sight units
*Red dot - mounting position
*Scope - mounting position, though not needed as long as I remember "as far back as physically possible"

Worth noting, the Eon doesn't have a very forgiving eyebox, at least not for someone with mostly iron-sight experience.