Spotting Scope for Air Bench Rest !

[Blackrider]

A bit of info please;
Types/Makes
Mag
Quality
Price

Shooting at 40 metres indoor and outdoor.
Let me know if I’ve missed anything out, all advice most welcome !

And yes I could use the rifle mounted scope but I want to investigate a separate SS first and my scopes average 7 to 10 mag.

Thanks !

[Ragle Jnr]

Hi, if you are shooting seriously, you will need a higher power scope. I use a sightron, 36x, no problems with seeing holes at 100 yards! A seperate spotting scope just clutters up your bench, don't waste your money, get a decent rifle scope. HTH David

[Jesim1]

Hi, if you are shooting seriously, you will need a higher power scope. I use a sightron, 36x, no problems with seeing holes at 100 yards! A seperate spotting scope just clutters up your bench, don't waste your money, get a decent rifle scope. HTH David

I've got to agree with David, I hear people defend low mag scopes for BR, but in all seriousness your looking at x20+, I use x24 on my springer and x50 dialed down to about 32 on my PCP, I only use a spotting scope for .22LR BR25 with diopter sights

x24 scopes are abundant and will make a big difference for this purpose while still being usable for lots of general stuff when dialed down.

James

[Blackrider]

Yup, fair point !
Let me clarify a bit.
I have a decent collection of spring air rifles which I’d like to use bench rested up to 40 metres both indoor and outdoor. All are presently scoped up with a selection of decent riflescopes ranging from maximum magnification from 5 to 16 mag.
At present, I don’t want to change these rifle/scope combos.
However out at 25m and beyond, spotting .177 cal. pellet fall isn’t easy to identify with the scopes mounted on these mags I’ve identified so a spotting scope at this point in time would be an advantage to me.
NOW at some future point in time if I were seriously addicted to bench rest shooting on a competitive level or maybe even not quite at that standard, I may choose to acquire a suitable “long mag” rifle scope (and air rifle) but for now a relatively inexpensive but practically efficient spotting scope will suffice.

[Jesim1]

Okay, that's different, but TBH, they are so cheap to buy new you may as well just pick one up like this: https://www.jessops.com/p/jessops/sp...hoCWk4QAvD_BwE

You can sell it afterwards for half price and it's only cost you £20 - or in a beautiful part of the world like yours, keep it for wildlife

[Blackrider]

Thanks, didn’t realise they could be had that cheaply but that would do the job !