Tasco Rimfire

First, I see that I bought this Tasco scope at the right time. The price just went up at Amazon by over $5.00. I should point out that the shape of the observed "picture" seen when looking through the scope isn't round. It's more of a rectangle with rounded corners, or maybe like an ancient television screen shape. The scope provides a pretty bright image considering the objective lens is 20mm.I bought tis scope to use on a new Daisy Powerline Model 35 that I also bought from Amazon. But first, I wanted to try it on a Beeman spring piston air rifle that I was going to give one final chance to show me some kind of consistent accuracy. So, I sighted and mounted this scope on two air rifles. The Beeman......well, I give up on it. So, I mounted it onto my Model 35, which I intend to leave it on that gun. I'm 59 and my eyesight isn't very good, and I need new glasses. I had fired maybe 125 pellets through the Model 35 with open sights, and I got some great groups. As in 3 pellets through one hole the diameter of a pellet from 10 yards off a rest. But I could see that my eyesight was limiting the great groups.When you mount this scope you should not tighten down the clamps as if your life depended on it. Just snug them in and don't break or strip them out. I did have to adjust the rear lens a bit for a nice clear view of the crosshairs, and to get the target as clear as possible at the same time. The ring for zooming from 3 to 7 power works nice and isn't too hard to turn. The windage and elevation adjustments work all right, and I used a lot of clicks sighting in the two rifles.The scope is really helping me with this air gun. My best groups are still the same. But when you get an entire group through one tiny hole the same size as whatever caliber you are shooting, it cannot get any better. The difference is I am able to get more of this type of tight group with less flyers. So I can get maybe 40-50% really tight groups. Much better than with the open sights. It's not that the Model 35 has crappy open sights, because it does not. The sights are really pretty good. It's my eyesight.I got this scope for $16.97, and for the price I have to give this scope 5 stars. This scope is helping me to get groups measuring 0.0" center to center from a smooth bore BB/pellet gun when shooting good quality pellets through it at 10 yards. That means I have about $52.00 into the gun and scope. And this isn't my first scope by a long shot. I have probably owned 10-15 scopes. Most have had much larger objective lenses. But again, for an inexpensive air gun and the low cost of the scope I am very happy with this setup.

I picked this up for a .22 LR rifle I have that had a broken older tasco scope on it. I've used Tasco's for years for rimfire, so I'm not a stranger on what to expect from them. This scope is very comparable to most they've ever sold, and the 3x7 variable is a nice 'add on' to the old fixed 4x scopes of past years.When it came in, before ever mounting it, I eyed through it - it is a duplex reticle (thick lines on the outside, fine wires at the cross-point). It didn't mention duplex reticle in the ad, but since most 30/30's are duplex, no big deal there. (for those that don't know, a 30/30 reticle gives you a measure of 30-inches at 100-yards when set at 4x, so you can use it to rangefind on known-distance or known-sized objects). Anyway, the reason for my 4-star instead of 5-star rating? Even though the objective and ocular lenses are round, just like in the picture in this offering, the actual reticle is TV shaped (again, another obscure feature from Tasco from back in the 1970's where the reticle isn't round, it is basically 'oval-shaped' with a 'wide-angle' field of view - something I personally don't care for). Since they didn't mention 'TV' or 'Wide Angle' as a scope feature, I kind of felt misled in the product description. I actually thought they had quit making this reticle form-factor. It seems they have not. It is a decent scope, holds a decent zero on a .22 LR, and the 30/30 feature is quite accurate. Overall, a solid 4-star scope for $20, and should work FINE on any air rifle or rimfire you have.

The scope would not focus. It only came close within 1/2 of a thread of being out all the way. The threads were not tight and is clearly NOT a quality device. So even towards the end of being unscrewed all the way, the threads were so loose that it would have been impossible to adjust correctly.Returned the scope

I purchased this scope for $16.54 delivered free with my Prime membership, for a 22LR rifle I got when I was in the Army and stationed near Stuttgart, Germany. I was fortunate then to be able to purchase and return with this Anschutz 522 semi-auto 22LR rifle. I put a 4X scope on it and used it for a few years, but I did not like the scope and this Tasco Rimfire 3-7x 20mm 30/30 reticle riflescope I purchased, is a replacement that offers a better field of view and an eye to scope distance that is a better fit for this rifle. The rifle is one of the nicest looking 22 rimfire rifles I have seen and it cost me $72.00 in 1972-3 at the base Rod and Gun club and this scope is also adding to that appeal of the rim fire rifle. I will appreciate the wide view of this scope and start using this fine shooting rifle more than in the past, as the scope is a nice improvement. Good product at a good price and I give it 5 stars.

I put this scope on my Gamo Hornet as a cheap little replacement because I heard the scope that comes with it isn't very good. This scope is great and I love it. It has a weird shape but I really like it for some weird easy, it is sorta an oval/rectangle but it gives you more side to side FOV which is great. Took me a few shots to zero but the zeroing is very clean and smooth/easy. The scope is very clear but I wish there were mil-dots but then again its a cheap scope so can't expect too much. Also I love the zoom nob right next to the back which is very convenient and useful.

I have had one of these scopes mounted on an air rifle for a long time and it does what it is supposed to. The image is not the clearest and the adjustments are not accurate but it works OK. I bought another one, purpose being to have a light weight scope on an air gun. I could not make out the target at any range and the adjustments did not move the point of impact. I returned and asked for a replacement. The second one was worse than the first. I returned for a refund -- thankfully Amazon has an excellent return policy. Actually I would pay more for a scope like this if the quality was acceptable.