Need scope recommendation for pellet rifle (shooting, rifles, cheap, firearms)

[Giesela]

I have your pretty standard 760 Pumpmaster. I bought a Tasco scope at Walmart and while I may be a bit more accurate with the scope that the iron sights that came on the rifle I have a hard time finding/seeing the tgt.
The field of view seems pretty narrow and the "sweet spot" where I can tell what I'm looking at is pretty small, all is blurry around it. So if looking at something in branches and leaves its really hard. I need to be fast and be able to discern what I'm looking at.

Any recommendations?

[ferretkona]

Maybe a 2x. You might be using too powerful a scope.

[Tightwad]

The scope you need for an air rifle is different in design than a scope for fire arms. This site is all about air powered guns and stuff for them. Beeman's has been in the air gun business for a looooonnng time!

Beeman Precision Scopes and Sights

[Giesela]

Well before I saw the above link I called Airgun depot. Got a young guy, whom I'm not sure really understood what I needed, or maybe they just don't make anything different. He convinced me to buy
RWS 6X42 CL Air Rifle Scope with Illuminated Reticle $69.99

Though I told him I didn't need more magnfication I needed more light, a bigger picture.
I looked at the above site and apparently 2 x don't really exist so my other option was a 4 x 32.
Well its a done deal for now, we'll see how she goes. The one other thing that threw me was this illuminated reticule. I asked him if that would make bird id harder to have this red dot over the bird and he said no. Seems like it would to me.

[rifleman]

Air rifles recoil "backwards" compared to firearms. This puts some reverse stresses on the internals, the reticle in particular. Some cheaper scopes can and will dis-assemble at some point in their use on an air rifle. Beeman's offers scopes specific for air rifles, as does Leupold. After owning a Weirauch HW-55 for well over 45 years, this last year I finally put a nice Leupold on top of it; a variable 2 - 7, which allows me the full range of magnificantion I might need. I can now pick off a quail with a head shot at 30 m, no problem.

BTW, according to their technical support folks, any and all Leupolds are suitable for air rifle mounting, because of their high quality and structural integrity. This probably applies to Burris and others as well.

[drjones96]

I've never really had much success shooting with a scope on an air rifle.

I had a Daisy Powerline 880. I could shoot like a madman with that rifle. I decided to put a scope on it and I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. Took it off and tossed it after a while and went back to the open sights.