Quite a while back I loaned a friend $50. I guess he never had the money to pay me back and I never asked for it. So yesterday I saw him and he asked if I would take his Nikon scope for what he owed me as he had sold the Savage rifle and kept the scope. I asked him how much I would owe him and he said two pawn shops offered him $30 for it so I didn't owe him anything and it has been to long getting me paid back. It is a 3-9X40 Pro Staff matte finish and is like new like most of his stuff usually is. So I got the Nikon and thought about putting it on the recently bought 270 or 30/06. I thought a good way to test it would be to try it on a rim fire to see how it tracked when moving the adjustments. I had a silver finish Nikon 4X on this rifle and never liked how it looked so figured this is a good one to put it on and give me a good excuse to get the silver one off. I put it on and set the parallax for 22 shooting and this scope works super. It works so well I may just leave it on the old Rem. It sighted in well and tracked good. Very positive clicks on the adjusters. I set the parallax at 50 and it is still good at 35 yds. on 6-7 power. I usually always hunt squirrel on 5X any way. Here is some groups I shot at 35yds.(Yard was drying up to shoot farther than 33yds. but here comes more rain)
This rifle I call "Old Ugly". Had a lot of gouges in the wood that I filled with body filler and painted it camo. Has patina on the metal and needed a firing pin and a mag tube follower when I bought it for $90. I had a firing pin and made a new follower from a piece of nylon. Looks better with the black scope.
The target from yesterday evening after the wind laid down. Top left is 8 shots the others are 5. It sure likes Tac but it don't get that in it often.
