I too for most of my hunting shoot within "point blank", or at least to a couple of drop points. All tested on the range. KISS.

But such limited boundaries aren't where a whole load of shooting is going. On targets far more advanced ballistics and scope features are being used as are the distances being shot at which get further and further away. Civilian shooters doing more long distance involved multi distance shooting, and military sniping hitting the enemy further and further out.

When air rifles become more and more accurate then how to test them and the shooter? Smaller targets or push the distance out. Here feature rich scopes come into their own. A hit isn't enough as only a precision "bull" will do.

All good fun.