UTGAirgun Scope

I never had a Mill dot scope before so i bought this one. It is preset for 35 yards. I put it on my Ruger Black-hawk .177 pellet gun. I used the scope rings that came with it. I marked off exactly 35 yards. I mounted it exactly like the instructions said to. I am not the best shot in the world but i am pretty good for a 65 year old man. The first shot using a shelf to rest the rifle on was pretty good. It was on the outside of the left side of the bulls-eye and just below the center line to the left and about 1/4 inch low. I turned the elevation and the wind-age adjustments both two clicks up on elevation and 2 clicks to the right on wind-age. I fired six shots and they where bulls eyes with about quarter of a inch grouping. I then shot eight shots from my shoulder without any kind of support and 4 hit the bulls eye and 4 were to the left or right of the bulls eye. I guess it was my unsteadiness that cause me to miss the bulls eye but still able to eliminate the rabies carrying racoons around here, and have rabbits for dinner. The adjustments for elevation and wind-age are very nice. You can adjust them with your fingers and they have very detente clicks to them. This scope has only one adjustment to it and that it has a focus ring. I then learned how to use the mil dots and believe me if you follow the instructions you can find the range to the target and which mil dot to use when the range to the target changes. The range is preset for magnification and you can't change it. I won't explain here how to use the mil-dots but read the manual that comes with the scope. I have some scopes with variable magnification and zoom in the $100.00 to 150.00 range and now i think they were a waste of money. You can find The range of a target or targets faster and more accurate then having to change the magnification or zoom on other scopes and it didn't effect the zero point at all using the mil dot. I now since the scope was zeroed in took 6 shots from exactly 66 yards away. 4 shots were bulls-eye and two about 1/4 inch away from the bulls-eye. I love this pellet gun and i am using Gammo Rocket pellets and crossman destroyer pellets in this rifle. The testing here was done with the Gammo pellets, I don't use anything else. Now i know i can hit anything from 15 yards to 66 yards out whenever i need to. I love it! Maybe that's why snipers use Mill-dot scopes. Read up on them on the internet and you may learn like i have. Now i am surfing the net to find a high dollar mill-dot scope for my 30-06 rifle. A inexpensive utg mill-dot scope has made a believer out of me. Follow the instructions in the manual for installing this scope to the letter. I don't think you will be disappointed on a pellet gun but who knows the outcome on a real rifle. I will let you know when i get a mill-dot scope for my 30-06. The scope comes with scope rings that haven't moved so far in over a hundred shots, a clear manual, Allen wrenches, cleaning cloth and nice detachable flip up lens covers that can be used on or off the scope if you don't want to have them on the scope. I take them off because i like the front profile of the scope, it looks sporty instead of bla like most other scopes. I highly recommend this scope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OVERVIEWFINALLY----I found a scope that holds up to the Hatsan MOD 125th vortex spring piston break barrel air rifle. I've put more than 1000 shots through it and it has stay zeroed through all of them. A lot of the air gun forms recommend the UTG by Leapers as a scope that can withstand the bi-directional recoil of and air rifle, especially the magnum types like the Hatsan 125th. Yes there are a lot of scopes out there than can handle the recoil of .308 rifle, but that recoil is only one way, air rifles have two recoils and that 2nd recoil wrecks most scopesI have been through the following optics with no real success:►Optima 4x32 (this scope came with the rifle)►CVLIFE 4x32 Tactical Rifle Scope Red & Green &Blue Illuminated Reticle Scope with Fiber Optic Sight►CVLIFE 2.5-10x40e Red & Green Illuminated Scope with 20mm Moun►Dagger Defense -Combat Vet Owned Company- 2X Magnified Red Dot Reflex Sight Optic Scope►Rifle Scope 1x30mm Red Dot Sight with 20mm/11mm Weaver Picatinny Mount RailsThere are three different hex wrenches / allen keys used (that come with the scope); one to attach the rings to the rail, one to tighten the scope rings to the scope and one to adjust the stop pin on the rear scope ring. The biggest of the allen keys is used to affix the scope rings to the rail ( it does a excellent job).Again, I bought this for a break barrel air gun, I not expecting to be able to hit targets 500 yards out, as a matter of fact you really looking about between 10 and may 75 yards for a gas piston air gun. Are there better scopes out there, yes clearly there are; but if this one holds up like it has so far, then I'll consider it a good buy.PROS►Holds zero even with a magnum spring break barrel air rifle (so far after 1000+ rounds)►Clear optics►Solid mounts for a sub-$100 scope►Don't need a screw driver or coin to adjust for elevation or windCONS►None so far►Fixed magnification @ 4x (pro and a con depending your perspective)RECOMMENDATIONMy recommendation is strictly based on use on a magnum spring air rifle. If you are looking for something for a rifle, especially in the .22 LR to .223 calibers, there are probably better options out there for about the same price, but for a spring gas piston air rifle, this is has been the best one I've found. If it fails to hold zero, I'll update my review.

After having owned this scope for several years, it has proven to be a decent scope in terms of durability and performance. I have it on a Gamo Big Cat .177 and at 25 yds it will shoot all shots touching in a 5 shot group with pellets that it likes. For the price accuracy and durability is acceptable. My only complaint about his scope is the mil dot reticle does not seem to be accurate at all. Unlike most other mil dot reticles which typical have 4 dots in each X and Y axis, this one has 9. When I try to use these dots for typical MRAD calculations such as range/target size estimation the calculations come out wildly inaccurate. For example a bird feeder ranged at 35yd with my laser range finder, calculates out to ~83 yds with this scope's reticle. Likewise my wallet placed 7ds away calculates out to be like 40+ yds. So it would appear the dots are not usable for legit MRAD estimations, but within 35-40 yds there really isn't much ballistic drop and such anyway if you are shooting lets say at pidgeon/squirrel size targets so overall its acceptable within practical hunting ranges. If you are going to be shooting at fixed known range then the reticle inaccuracy is a non issue as you can just dial in the exact correction. This scope was ~ $40 when I bought it so a hell of a value. At the $81 price as of this review, I would argue to spend a bit more and go with much better options in the $120 - $150 range.