Seems like this guy misses one of the most important aspects of AO which is to eliminate parallax errors. Meaning, if you scope is set with a fix parallax at 100 yards, when shooting at a target 100 yards away you can move your head all around the sight picture and the cross hairs will remain on the target. Yu can put your head all the way to the edge of the scope where you see small half moon siver of sight picture and the cross hairs are sill pointed at the point of impact. Try that shooting at 100 yards with a scope set for 50 yards and you will hit way off the target. A good cheek weld and consistent eye and sight alignment through the center of the sight will also eliminate parallax problems. Only time I have blurry image problems is when the parallax is set grossly off from the target distance. This normally happen to me when I'm shooting 25m on rimfire then begin shooting at 100-150 yards or vice versa. I dont normally have an issue shooting 20-25m with an objective set at 50 yards. My son who doesn't do a good job of aligning his eye up to the scope consistently will often throw out a big pattern at 25m because of bad inconsistent sight alignment.

ETA I use an AO scope on all my 22 target rifles but I love my Weaver RV-7 (2.5x7) fix parallax at 50 yard for a woods gun.

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Posted by AlxTgr

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Posted on 8/18/23 at 2:19 pm to DeoreDX

I think you're missing the point more than he is. With regular rimfire scopes that do not have adjustable objectives, short range sucks hard. For squirrel hunting, which is what the OP mentioned, the two rimfire scopes I have had without adjustable objectives sucked hard. I learned the lesson first with air rifles.