I recently picked up a 10/22 K10 Target model. Mine is the blued hammer forged barrel and blown laminate stock. I wasn't really looking for this one but happened to see it on the shelf at the store, so I took it home.
My question is this: What scope for a 22 rifle, max shooting yardage is probably 100 yards. Is parallax adjustment necessary for that range? I'm looking an Athlon 6-24 x 50 but I'm wondering about that magnification range.
https://athlonoptics.com/produ...0-aprs11-ffp-ir-mil/

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Originally posted by Todd Huffman:
I recently picked up a 10/22 K10 Target model. Mine is the blued hammer forged barrel and blown laminate stock. I wasn't really looking for this one but happened to see it on the shelf at the store, so I took it home.
My question is this: What scope for a 22 rifle, max shooting yardage is probably 100 yards. Is parallax adjustment necessary for that range? I'm looking an Athlon 6-24 x 50 but I'm wondering about that magnification range.
https://athlonoptics.com/produ...0-aprs11-ffp-ir-mil/

I had one of the original, spiral barrel target models with the laminate stock back in the early 00’s and I had a 4-16x with target turrets on it. That worked really well for me for 100 yd target shooting off a bench.

Back then, I would only shoot Federal Gold Medal Match thru it (the standard velocity stuff). That ammo was amazingly tight with that rifle and I could routinely drop 10 inside a nickel, off a bench.

Can’t go wrong with anything from Altheon.
They’re putting out some great stuff!

6-24 X 50?

That X50 is going to pull in a lot of light during dawn & dusk.
6 - 24 is on the high end for magnifying, but is you’re doing serious shooting, especially with a tiny caliber, the 24x is going to help seeing the hole.

If the price is right, get the glass!

Like most of the Athlon line, the Argos scope is made in China.

Don't support China.

I have the same gun just stainless spiral barrel and I have a Simmons 6-24x scope.

I haven't needed adjustable paralax at 100 yards, but the scope you referenced has adjustments down to 10 yards. It's a good scope for what you want.

quote:

Originally posted by Todd Huffman:
I recently picked up a 10/22 K10 Target model. Mine is the blued hammer forged barrel and blown laminate stock. I wasn't really looking for this one but happened to see it on the shelf at the store, so I took it home.
My question is this: What scope for a 22 rifle, max shooting yardage is probably 100 yards. Is parallax adjustment necessary for that range? I'm looking an Athlon 6-24 x 50 but I'm wondering about that magnification range.
https://athlonoptics.com/produ...0-aprs11-ffp-ir-mil/

I've got that exact scope on a AR I've shot between 25 - 550 yards. Its a good scope. ESPECIALLY for the price.

Side note on their customer service. The rifle literally jumped off the bench by its self. I'm guessing the bipod tilt was just barely loose enough to allow it to tilt some. Either way landed upside down on the scope onto concrete. Would no longer hold a zero. Turret covers were all marred up and some marks on the scope from hitting concrete.

I contacted them and let them know. Sent it back to them. They shipped me a brand new replacement no questions asked. I give them a 10/10 on customer service.

Regarding adjustable parallax settings, at one time they were common only in scopes that were normally used for shooting at close distances as well as at longer ranges. My ancient Redfield 20× model 3200 scope is one example. It can be used for long distances, but I used it primarily for 50 foot (16.7 yard) small bore (22 Long Rifle) competition.

As was usual (universal?) at the time, the 3200’s parallax is set by turning the adjustable objective (AO) (front) lens. Although that works to set and leave it there for shooting at one distance, it’s somewhat fiddly, and not suitable for rapid changes in a single firing string. I believe there are still AO scopes on the market, but it’s far more convenient to be able to adjust the parallax setting with a side knob that permits seeing the image focus go in and out as it’s turned.

And although the purists will point out that despite the fact that the focus changes when turning the parallax adjustment knob what we’re actually doing is changing the parallax setting, in practice it doesn’t matter what we call it: When the image is in sharpest focus at max magnification, the parallax will be set about as closely to perfect as possible. Plus, even if the parallax setting didn’t change, we would still need the image to be in focus, and that’s when the closest possible focus distance can matter.

An improperly adjusted parallax setting can cause aiming and therefore accuracy errors, but only if the scope isn’t used properly. If the shooter’s eye is directly in line with the center of the scope when aiming, the parallax setting doesn’t matter. On the other hand if I can’t aim properly because the image is totally out of focus and my target is only a indistinct blur, then that obviously matters a lot.

I shoot my 22LR rifles much more than my other guns and very often at close distance targets. The main reason I have two 7-35× scopes is because they focus as close as 10 yards. One of my favorite exercises is to shoot at small steel targets at distances from ~20 to 100+ yards; close focus/parallax distance and the ability to change it quickly and easily are essential.

What does all that have to do with scopes without adjustable parallax/focus? Manufacturers will commonly set a fixed parallax distance based on the scope’s most probable use. At one time, and possibly still, Leupold scopes intended for use on .22 rimfire rifles had parallax fixed at 75 yards because they were more likely to be used at close ranges whereas their other scopes had parallax fixed at 150 yards. If a hunter with a common 3-9× scope tried to engage a deer or elk at 20 yards with the scope set even at the minimum magnification, any parallax errors would be the least of his concerns.

Another consideration about parallax misadjustment is that it matters most at closer distances and at higher magnifications. For example a 3-15× scope I have has a minimum parallax distance of 50 meters (~55 yards); when set at 3×, though, I can get an acceptably-sharp focused image as close as 7 yards. The parallax is way off at that distance and any slight head movement behind the scope causes the reticle to wander all over the image, but could an LE sniper use the scope to make a head shot at that range? Yes. But could I use the scope to plink 9mm cartridge cases at 15 yards? Probably not so successfully.

On the other hand, do we see precision rifle competitors adjust their parallax settings when engaging targets at many hundreds of yards even at high magnifications? Not that I’ve noticed.

What does all that mean? Whether a scope has an adjustable parallax setting and if not, what distance it’s fixed at, depends on its intended use—and how it’s used.

Oh yeah, as an editorial comment, if we must support the efforts of our main enemy—and with whom we are actually at war—to drive all other optics manufacturers out of business, pay attention to politics. One day Chinese imports are threatened with 100% tariffs, the next day they’re not.