nice shooting jack! after a long time squirrel and pigeon shooting over the autumn and winter i will be hitting the rabbits next weekend to celebrate my 14th birthday ,the day i can finally shoot with out my daft old dad wandering around!
for 450 you can get yourself a nice PCP. take a look at the following which are all within your budget NEW:
Air arms s400, BSA ultra multishot, aimx contour, FX typhoon, BSA T-10 are all good rifles.
if you've got tht much money to spend then take a look a the following: http://www.hawkeoptics.com/riflescopes/sidewinder_tactical/index.php
these are excellent scopes. take a look at this review:
or you can take a look at the MTC range. th MTC optic range are highly applauded for sharp picture and there specialized reticle. http://www.mtcoptics.co.uk/Mamba_main.htm
or you can go for a zeiss or schimdt and bender scope with your money as these are really top end german optics, but i think there a little OTT for airgunning.
i always use to shoot rabbits behind th eye but then i realiesd after a few shots that the rabbits tended to jsut drop dead when i shot them at the bottom of the ear instead of just behind the eye where they tended to kick and strech. just a thought. also, i dotn shoot rabbits until they are at least 4yrds away from there holes so if the shot dose go off i can run over then and dispatch it.
mtc mamba lite 4-16x44 : http://www.opticswarehouse.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=mtc_mamba_lite_4-16x44
the lite version of the mtc mamba has no IR so is a little lighter as well as a smaller tube. i rarely shoot at night anyway. thanks davy i think i'll go for the higher mag verion.
hi Aaron
wasnt aware of that
just beware if your shooting in low light ,you wont have a ir to show
regards
davy
i'll bear that in mind but i would like to keep my rifle light.
mtc mamba lite 4-16x44 : http://www.opticswarehouse.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=mtc_mamba_lite_4-16x44
the lite version of the mtc mamba has no IR so is a little lighter as well as a smaller tube. i rarely shoot at night anyway. thanks davy i think i'll go for the higher mag verion.
hi all,
i have been allowed a new scope for my 14th birthday (the day i can fianlly shoot by myself) and i have narrowed it down to an mtc mamba lite. as the name suggest, MTC optics have tried to make this scope as light as possible with very few add ons just the way i like it. now i am left to which mag: 3-12x44 or 4-16x44. i will do most of my shooting off a bipod so i have a pretty steady rest but i still want to keep the settup light. which should i go for? now a lot of hunters say they stay on 6x all the time but i have tried this and always find myself keeping my mag on 10x and wanting