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a good friend of mine recently passed away and, having no children of his own, he left a Marlin Lever Action 22 to our grandson .... in looking for a scope I came across the 3-9X40 Nikon PROSTAFF® Rimfire II Riflescope in this link http://www.cabelas.com/product/NIKON-RI ... Davailable at Cabela's for $89.99 .... as a fan of Nikon scopes it caught my attention .... comments "?

I have a Nikon P-Rimfire 2-7x32 and its excellent. It came with two turrets, one for .22LR and one for .22WMR. And I have the Prostaff Rimfire 3-9x40. I prefer the adjustable turrets over the BDC. But both have excellent brightness and contrast.

I have a Prostaff 4X32 rimfire and highly recommend Nikon scopes. The 3-9X would definitely let you reach out to 100 yards. At that price I am tempted to order one. But I already have more scopes than rifles.

info appreciated .... will probably order one tonight

I have Nikon Prostaff's on just about every rifle I own. They are a great scope for the money. I highly recommend them.

They look something like this on an H001:



Very bright, crisp scope IMO.

picture of our grandson's Marlin 22 (mentioned in opening post in this thread) with its Nikon Prostaff scope .... we haven't been able to get it out to sight it in but hope to do so soo

I am sorry for the loss of your friend. A very nice rifle for your grandson with a great scope to go with it. I am sure that he will have fun at the range.

That scope should work just fine.

As a side note? Depending on your grandson's experience, or lack thereof, with shooting, I think I would have had him learn to shoot the 39A with the iron sights before adding a scope. Just my 2¢.

ditto1958 wrote:That scope should work just fine.

As a side note? Depending on your grandson's experience, or lack thereof, with shooting, I think I would have had him learn to shoot the 39A with the iron sights before adding a scope. Just my 2¢.

agree .... I've been working with him for over a year .... the first few months he fired open sights only .... after that, a mix of open sights and a Nikon .... as time goes by he will keep switching between them .... he has come a long way

People that learn to shoot iron sights easily adjust to a scope but people that learn on a scoped rifle have problems with iron sights.

I put Leupold 2-7 rimfire scopes on my H001m and my small game carbine. They are very light and not as large as a lot of scopes.

Hogstir wrote:I put Leupold 2-7 rimfire scopes on my H001m and my small game carbine. They are very light and not as large as a lot of scopes.

I have the same Leupold and it works great.

I have a Nikon Prostaff 3-9 x 40 Rimfire Scope on my CZ 452 American.

The mounts are a set of inexpensive Leupold that were the only thing I could find at the time that would get the scope low on the barrel.

Leupold part number 56533.

I don't know why some guys think you have to have super rugged scope mounts on a .22.