we'll have to agree to disagree. I've never needed more than 4x for anything I'd be shooting with an Air rifle. I'm familiar with your technique but in practice I've missed far more opportunities than I care to admit to because the scope was on the wrong power and parallax setting when something pops up at an unexpected distance. I can hit a 500 yard 10" plate with an AR with a 1-6X LPVO. A fixed 4X works for anything I should shoot with an air rifle.Ron, AO can be very useful when hunting. Set it for 30 yards on lower power while walking in. That should give you sufficient depth of field for anything you walk up on. When you find a place to sit for a while. Use max power and the objective to rangefind a few trees, features, etc in your perimeter. Now you have a very good idea of range when game appears.
For me a nice light variable is worth the weight. The old Korean 3-9x32 Bushnell Sportview was great for this. Beeman sold them and some came as Blue Ribbon. (I'll never put an ugly blue scope on any gun of mine). Nice clear optics.
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