AR scope recomendations

[FTIII]

I would like to see what others can recomend for a scope for my AR rifle. I will use this rifle for hunting on a oppertunity basis. In other words if a shot come up I want to be able to take it even though it's not the system I would usually use, it is in my hands when the shot is presented. I know the rifle is accurate and have tried it with a large and bulky Tasco 6X24 off my 22-250 with good results. In my opinion this Tasco is way to big and to much scope for the 5.56AR. I want to find a "reasonable" priced scope that would be more in balance with this combo.

Most of my experience with a AR style rifle is combat related in the 68-69 period. It took me a lot of years to get past my hate of this system and I have at least embraced the fact that after 40 years of development it is finanly some what fixed and useful for some hunting.
Thanks
FTIII

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[jmoore]

My deer hunting AR:





Colt scope. The film canister with the front cut out and the inner tube at the back are to keep the rain off the lenses.

Another shot w/o the front "tube extention":



That or Trijicon ACOGs. But the Colt scopes are far cheaper. (Most are Japanese mfg.)

Short, quick and good for the woods. (No fancy shots for me, just put 'em in the shoulder area.)

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

My choice is the Nikon M-223 4x with the BDC reticle. Midway USA is the only one who offers the BDC. Nice glass. Midway has it on sale often.

[Norton1]

Those little AR scopes are 3X, marked Colt, have BDC, and mine was made in Japan. It is accurate out to 500 yards with the BDC. Well for sure minute of man or deer. It is just like the one pictured - - nice units and fairly inexpensive.

Be well,
Steve

[A. F Medic]

What state allows you to use the .223? Here in Pa, no semis and anything with a 22 in it's cartridge description is also banned......

[FTIII]

A.F Medic,
I dont know about most other states but here in MT we can use pretty much anything we want to. Yes that means even a .22 rimfire to hunt with but they do recomend that the gun and game match up. In my case I usually have a little to much gun for the game. I have been put into a situation where I used something I wouldnt have used. One example is when a friend and I went hunting in Calif. he was deer hunting and I took my 22-250 to shoot coyotes with I really didnt want to shoot another deer. I already had a good eating buck in the freezer. It turned out that I ended up shooting another deer for me and he got a buck to. I almost shot a pig to.

[vintage hunter]

My poor little AR lives a hard life but it's Burris Tac 30 scope with ballistic plex reticle has given very good service over the last 6 years without ever loosing zero. To answer A.F.Medic's question, South Carolina for one. Here as long as it's CF it's legal, semi, bolt, lever whatever. Several guys I know go after deer and hogs with a 204 Ruger. I've killed at least a couple hundred myself with a .30 carbine, in fact the second largest deer ever killed in the county I reside in was taken with an M2 carbine a relative smuggled home from Korea.

[HILLBILLY-06]

What state allows you to use the .223? Here in Pa, no semis and anything with a 22 in it's cartridge description is also banned......

Good ol Alabam'... and I put an NCSTAR P4 Sniper reticle scope on mine, it works so good I can squirrell hunt with it, here is at least one good proof is in the pudding photo, cause pudding is about all that was left.... LOL.

[FTIII]

You need to shoot them in the head, waste to much meat the way your shooting them. Over all a nice rig. How much did that scope cost ya?
thanks

[HILLBILLY-06]

Over all a nice rig. How much did that scope cost ya?

I purchased mine locally, so price I paid was 2X what they go for online. I got $189.00 in mine, but you can get them on the internet a lot cheaper. The only reasons I like to purchase some things locally, is to stimulate the buisnesses around here once in a while. I also purchased my Z-bar scope mount, under handguard rail adapter, forward grip, and had it bore sighted all at once. So I pretty much walked out of the store " All hopped up" I just needed to go fine tune the scope at the range. I zero'd it for a hundred, and forgot to even shoot at 50 yards. So when that Fox Squirrell came out in the open, I shot plum over his head the first shot. I just put the next line up above the center line on his body, squeezed, and turned him into a flying fox squirrell.