Thank you guys for all your knowledge taught me alot got me wanting to be a air gunner hunter

I use a string, or a makeshift plumb bob and line the crosshairs with it. I use a regular carpenters level to make sure the gun is level on my kitchen table, then hang the plumb bob off a cabinet door and line the verticle line on the crosshair with the string on the plumb bob, it works for me.

Great video guys. You guys had a fantastic round table, it was awesome. Loved it

Great discussion! Thank you!

Fantastic show

I put the scope ring basses on ,then level the rifle. Then I set the scope in the rings and level the scope. Then I put a scope bubble on the scope tube while the scope is level. Now evory time I shoot ,I make sure the bubble is level.

Great info guys! Thanks!

I always enjoy the videos. But I have to say there is such a thing as level. Thanks for the video guys. From New Mexico.

Rossi! This was a great KZfaq for the information and the interaction of you four! By the way, the past two AmericanAirgunner episodes on television have been the best. The past two have been show casing the Umarex Hammer in a hunting environment. First you then a young lady. The best! Keep it up!

The Late John Spencer, multi World Snooker Champion, played with a bent cue & a 6 inch nail in the butt end for balance. The point being is that he always held the cue in the same position, so to him, it was straight. It's the same as knowing your Gun!!

This is great!!

My speakers were broken, so I mounted a tennis ball on my air rifle.

Brilliant guys thanks for sharing your knowledge

Interesting video' Thanks for this guys! I had too some issues with my break barrel and scope. The mounts made the scope to tilt on either side, depending on scope mount installation. Very annoying. Getting the crosshairs' vertical line continuing thru the center of the bore was not easy. Took some time to get the hang of it. The iron sights even were better for shooting than the scope setting.. haha...

The guy in the black hat nails setting up the crispsness of the croshair.

One thing I’ve been trying on my Airforce Texan is a 2-7x Burris slug gun scope.... parallax set at 75 yds. Been doing well for me, and weighs less than 12 oz....Also , one thing that you didn’t mention.... many scopes have less eye relief at higher power, so it may benefit folks to position the scope for a full sight picture at its highest setting... I know it does me.

i have all the fancy tools for mounting and leveling scopes.but i found something that is foolproof but so simple. i shoulder the rifle so its comfortable and look through the scope and look at the door of my shop. the doorframe was built level and its the perfect reference point. if it doesnt line up vertically i adjust it

Love it

I use a 2 X 7 X 32, and I'm very happy with it's performance.

As someone with many scopes, my opinion is that most airgunners are best served with a 4x or 6x fixed scope. Good adjustable scopes are expensive. Cheap zoom scopes usually suffer from parallax issues and distortion. Also, Illuminated crosshairs are fun, but don't leave the battery in them in the off season.

wow guys nice conversation there is so much to learn for a guy like me thanks to you all۔ keep it up۔

I shoot with both eyes open, but I was unable to focus the reticle properly unless I kept my weak eye closed, then I got it perfect real easy. I found that odd, and never heard anyone else say that.

"there is no such thing as level" - what???!!! The vertical line in the reticle needs to be pointing directly through the centre of the bore. If you don't have it set like this and either dialing in or using "Kentucky holdover" for targets closer or further than your zero range, you will be off target left or right! Setting this up is easy on a bolt action rifle where you can look through the bore and scope at the same time, but on a typical airgun you need to use a system such as the Wheeler Level-Level-Level product.

How about "leveling" your scope with a plum bob and string?? When the string stops swinging, adjust your vertical line in the scope to the string. There you go.

The "Hawke" 3 to 9 x 50 AO Mildot is all the scope any Air gunner will ever need - around £70 GBP.

There absolutely is "level". You need to first level the gun to make sure it's level, and then you need to level the scope in relation to the gun. I use a level attachment to the picatinny rail to make sure the gun is level, and then I use a level held to the underside of the scope to make sure that is also level (not front to back BTW, but side to side. There's usually a flat spot on the scope just under the elevation/windage adjustment knobs. Although I do like someone's plumb-bob method mentioned further down and will use that now to doublecheck my scope leveling for cant.) Only then, can you tighten down your scope and start zeroing it.

So much you've talked about but you failed to mention that most air rifle scopes are 2nd focal plane scopes, not single focal plane scopes. Second focal plane scopes change in point of aim verses point of focus with magnification, first focal plain scopes have the same point of aim and point of impact with increase or decrease of magnification. As the increase of magnification increases on a first focal plane scope goes, the area of view decreases, yet the "mil-dot" for adjustment of fire remains the same. On a second focal plain scope, your increase in magnification also reduces the field of view, AND . . . the point of impact changes per degree of magnification. In the case of Rick Eustler, on his choice of HAWKE scopes, the magnification is in US measurement and the milt-dots are in METRIC measure, which compounds the inaccuracy of shooting with either a first focal plane or second focal plain like the HAWKE scopes. Gentlemen, you need to explain this to your viewers properly or get off the air concerning 1st focal plain vs. 2nd. focal plain and all of the differences concerning them. Parallax is not "JUST" focusing, there's a lot more to it. In a second focal plain scope, SIZE DOES MATTER! . . Magnification wise. Please teach your students watching your show this.

MIL-MIL scope all the way. Why, oh why do so many scopes mix up MIL sights with MOA turrets?! Madness! It would be like driving a car with an mph tach coupled to a kmh GPS... I also switched to fixed magnification and won't go back to anything else: its first focal plane by design so the MILs are always true... and your ranging becomes a lot easier because the target sizes are proportional to their distance, always. And it's lighter and sturdier. Options and gadgets are fun, but I'll pick reliability, ease of use and familiarity any day. Just my two cents ;)

Any word on the umarex gauntlet 25 cal release date? I mean come on umarex im going crazy here! Lol release of the hammer? Anyone have one yet? Thanks guys love this show and what it does for airgunning! Im always showimg ppl my high powered air rifles. Thier amazed as i was when i saw my first big bore. I knew id be an air gunner for life by age 8. Im so glad we have better guns now!

I put a winchester 2x7x32 on my winchester 1100s works great for me

Hey what's up American Air Gunners I was wondering if you guys would do a review on a cheap Walmart pellet Nitro piston it's called a Benjamin Prowler 22 I think it's sponsor 950 ft per second.

as a boy I was always taught for hunting you don't need anything more than 3-9.

I have a Meopta scope which has a white line on the bottom. Match this up with the white line on the scope rings and you are perfectly level. Why don't other brands use this method? it's simple and it works.

actually you need to have the center of scope plumb with center of barrel,and crosshairs level...verify each shot with scope level

I find the God Father's explanation a bit confusing, (starting with the tennis ball). If the scope it rotated in the rings, you can still sight it in for what ever yards you sight your gun in at, and be accurate. It is when you use your mill dots where the scope cross hairs should be as level as possible. Leveling means, the vertical hair of your cross hairs, that meets with the center of the cross hairs, also extends down through the center of the rifle bore, (If you were able to draw the extension of the vertical hair). How to do that I am not sure. Then your mill dots will be where they are suppose to be also.

Any additional needs for the Springers and the Magnum Springers? Old info say, they will destroy a regular ballistic rifle scope?

My favorite part was watching Rick trying to speak for 2 mins with many failed attempts 🤣 happens to me brother

Hi guys, so, i have moved from scopes to using a night vision scope which you can also use in the day (yukon photon xt) I have found the easiest way to level it, is to eyeball the rifle level on a bipod (level for cant), drop the scope on, aim at a known level like the top of a wall or fence, and lay the horizontal crosshairs in line with the wall Walls are better for this for me,because when im zeroing the scope, i use adjustable mounts and adjust those to get me in the ballpark instead of using the scopes internal zeroing system Then go to the internal system for fine tuning, this leaves the crosshairs as close to the centre of the picture as possible, as the most awful thing for me with night vision is having the cross hairs in the bottom corner or top corner of rhe screen I have found night vision to stop Parallax error because your looking at a screen rather than down an optical tube, so it doesn't matter where your eye is in relation to the scope, where the centre dot on the crosshairs are, is where your pellet is going to land if your correct on the distance Its a fixed power scope ser to 6.5, and i found this is better than a variable power scope, because usually with an air rifle at that magnification, if you cant see it, your not going to hit it anyway Im not trying to strike a match at 70 miles away with an air rifle, km trying to hit a 1 inch circle at around 30 yards maximum, so 6.5 mag is perfect

When I put the scope on, I look at the base of the gun and go from there. Simple

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Not True. Place the rifle on a secure unmovable platform. Place a level on picatinny rail and level the bubble. While the scope is slightly lose in the rings, turn it until the level attached to the scope is also level.Well. how do I know if the level on the scope is where its supposed to be? While its slightly loose run the vertical cross hair until its perfectly centered on the picatinny rail. you can see both the center of the rail and the cross hair. Wish I could upload my bubble set up

hello I have a question and I did not know were to ask, I am moving to a good 5 acre property and want a air gun that can take care of pests from mice to coyotes without scaring a hoarse. Any random tips are also helpful. thanks!

But if you level it according to a leveler wouldnt that be leveled lol?? And also I use a cheek marker on my stock to maintain facial position when shooting

all i can say is listen to Rick....

You don’t need a scope for an air rifle

Again, not true. back to archery. Sure, if I pick your rifle, our cheek, arms and shoulders won't be the same. Archery. A bows grip. The hands grip and pressure from the hand (torque) on the grips riser won't be the same for each person. But, when the bow is placed in a bow vise the tips the limbs top and bottom vertically, you can level the bows riser grip. Then level the sight rail, then the scope housing 2nd and 3rd axis. You end up with a piece of equipment that is level all the way around. It can be done without a big fuss as a bow is with less steps to a rifle to a scope. I spent over 15 years in the Army Infantry. Our M16A1's where zeroed in as our assigned issued weapon. But, any other soldier can pick that same weapon and hit the target at 400 meters. Yes, 400 Meters. granted its only a peep sight, but 400 meters is very doable. I spent 1 year on a competing Army Rifle Team, 10 of us for National Elimination matches. We eliminated a number of other Army Divisions to make it to the All Army Matches at Ft. Benning, yet we didn't win to be assigned to the All Army Rifle Team. But, it was a good TDY experience for 1 year. I'm saying all of this incase some nay-sayer says 400 meters can't be done with standard issued 5.56 and M16A1's.

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Level that - putting a ball on the table. BS. A big BS. This Tom guy is talking BS. With all rifles you have a vertical centre determined at various ways. The scope reticle crosshairs must squared up (level) with that vertical centre of the rifle. If you want to talk BS, don't give it out as the truth.