The best All around Air rifle scope

[Bedrock Bob]

I wish we had had this discussion a few days ago. My bugbuster was delivered day before yesterday LOL. But I am gonna try it. I got it for a Umarex Notos, my first PCP rifle so I am a newbie. But I do appreciate understanding the limitations and what to look for in a scope, this is great info!

A rifle with a long picatinny that comes way back will work fine with the Bugbuster.

It's a good little scope and is stuffed full of features. The compact size is really neat but you pay for it in adjustability when using many (most) mounting interfaces.

If you are shooting at a bench eye relief and cheek weld is a lot less important. You can adjust the scope and shift your position and make it work. You have dwell time on target to get it right. Your eye relief and cheek weld matter a lot less than in unsupported positions. A scope with a tiny eyebox and less than ideal eye relief is not going to make you miss.

Besides, you're going to get pellet fever bad and buy a closet full of rifles with a shelf stacked with scopes. A Notos and a Bugbuster is a classic way to start.

 

[Dairyboy]

I prefer the Athlon Helos G2's. All in MIL I have the 2-12, 4-20, and the 6-24. The 2-12 is a great scope for speed, as a pistol/pifle Hunter FT scope, and is my favorite all arounder. Heck last week I pulled it off my ProX, mounted it on my Hunter FT Pistol, won my division the next day, put it back on the ProX and was touching holes at 55Y. It's such a crazy versatile scope! If I had to pick one scope only for many purposes this would be it.

I replaced a SWFA 3-15 with the 4-20 on a certain pcp and am so much happer with this HG2 as compared.

I have a very expensive 22rf match rifle that deserves a likewise expensive scope appropriate to it but the HG2 6--24 has been so good I left it there and have won matches so it has worked great for years now. I like that the APRS6 mil reticle is .05 mil, the turrets lock, that it has illume which I use for night matches, and truthfully there's nothing I can fault it in.

I've had other brand scopes more expensive than these and I can point out disappointing faults with them. I could have had HG2 scopes at a 3 to 1 cost ratio and been happier than I am with those other scopes. That's what I get for not staying with what I already knew worked well. The - I need to save weight, the - I need better IQ, the - this and that I thought was better, didn't work out like I'd hoped, and were not worth the money.

100% I think Athlon nailed the Helos G2 line. I wouldn't spend anymore money than them.