Never change your clear, precise speaking. Every single word you say sinks in 🍻

i love that he keeps in mind - beginners are enjoying his content.

Just what I needed to know Andy, Many thanks.

Cheers Andy! You helped explain the basics which is mostly what I was looking for in order to make an informed decision. I'll probably even go for a slightly "fancier" one, but now I'll know what to look for.

Thank you for posting. Great video

I love your delivery , I could listen all day long

Bet you needed a San Miguel after that Andy, thanks for your work, it really helps us beginers.

Been learning about scopes, I’ve never owned one before I bought my crossbow a couple years ago. I have the umarex airjavelin that comes with removable peep sight and umarex fusion2 that comes with a cheap 4x32 scope. I was pleasantly pleased with a budget scope I bought on Amazon, pinty 3-9x40 range finder scope. I tried it on the fusion2 and got it zeroed easy enough, although December in Canada isn’t ideal for CO2 I would take three quick shots go back inside make adjustments and allow everything to warm up before taking my next three shots. I decided that it will go on my Airjavelin since I’ll be shooting further distances with it than the fusion2, I had a dot sight kicking around and just finished sighting it in on the fusion2, since this is Canada my fusion2 shoots at around 480fps with lead so squirrel or rabbit hunting will be a distance of no more than 20-30 yards at the furthest

Very informative And working on holiday too ! Thank you Andy

Hey Andy, thanks for this nice overview on budget scopes. There is one scope you sadfully missed that is cheap, solid AND has AO/parallax adjustment (although hidden but easy to do). It's a Walther 4x32 and sells for under 40€ here in Germany.

I'm enjoying going back over your old videos

Great reviews love watching them :) not often I comment on a particular product but I have a cheap Walther 4x32 scope its $50 dollars Canadian (my home ) it’s one of the cheapest scopes on the Canadian market and specially designed for springer rifle recoil or so they claim. I set it up once and have literally put thousands of pellet,s downrange with a springer rifle with this scope and it has always held zero and can still hit bottle caps 65 feet away almost every time and very clear to look through. Really a nice scope fora low budget shooting worth considering I don’t think anybody would buy this and didn’t feel they got there money’s worth.

Andy - Nice review, enjoy your holiday!

Thanks alot Andy. Very useful. Just a beginner and this review was just what i was lookig for. Enjoy the sun.

Working away from the office! Top stuff.

Wow I have seen many footage on Scopes but I never understood the people explaining the footage but your video truly explained it to me and simple true way thank you for that now I know how to pick the Scopes out

It's February everywhere dude.

Amazing tutorial, grew up w/many hunting scopes, never new so much...Great review from Spain...🏜😎🇺🇸

3:13 A bigger dia scope tube doesn't mean more light. It means you'll get more elevation & windage adjustment out of a 30, 34 and 40mm dia scope with tactical turrets.

A great presentation thanks, just ordered a new rifle so intrigued to check out the scope.

What a great review Andy & thanks for doing it whilst on Holiday,you obviously had nothing better to do in Sunny Espana :}

Interesting! Spain? How cool is that! Yeah, left California to live in Spain, the weather IS rather nice here most of the time :-) By the way, excellent videos, great information as always!!

Thanks this information help my a lot so thankful for your excellent information 👍🏼😀

thanks, i needed that info. to proceed with a purchase.

Spot on Andy enjoy your holidays Miss Draper gave Carl another load of stuff from me. Take it easy

Thanks for the review Andy. As a beginner to the air gun scene it was really helpful!

Great advice, just picked up the hawke vantage 3-9x50ao for £65 delivered.

Great video it wasn’t to long ago I hadn’t got clue. What to do. But thanks to videos like yours I now know a smidge more. Cheers. The only thing I would ad is scopes have come on a lot and gone cheeper and so much better. I know friends who spend more on there scopes than there gun. I’m in the middle I appreciate a good scope but not to the point it cost same has a conservatory or a car I hate the word budget it implies a bit crap. Don’t you agree. Always great videos Andy

Great rev andy

Love it.

i have a BSA esencial 3-9×40 mill dot iluminated retical great scope for the money great for dusk and dawn shooting and good with a lamp for night hunting with mounts it was more than £60 but still a good buy 👍

Awesome explanation of optics and cheap optics. I like affordable optics that are decent.

Excellent review. Thanks👍🇵🇰❤️

Thanks Andy for turning the mysterious into the understandable

Interesting informative video, thanks. Could I suggest an up to date video on "Compact Scopes" also better quality scopes sub £250, including information on lens coatings, light transmission, and image clarity.

Best practical scope review I've seen. Thanks

Thanks much for your video. It was very helpful for novices like me. Here's my question: When looking thru your scope at your target, how do you tell if your eye is perfectly aligned? Please let me know if it's right to say that you approach the "sweet spot" as you minimize the overlap of the ocular lens and the objective lens. I have a nice scope, which is 2-7x33, but it has no parallax adjustment. The parallax is fixed at 60 yards. Still, when I shoot, I try to eliminate and ocular-objective overlap, and I don't have trouble with accuracy at 15 yards; of course, at 15 yards, I shoot at the 2 or 3 power.

Thanks for that

A realistic overview. Yes, you get what you pay for and for simple plinking on a low budget you really cannot expect too much but yet still have fun. Set your budget and buy but you may be rapidly disappointed with your shooting accuracy and precision once you start to aim at targets rather than cans. For vermin control, the humane answer is going to cost more. In all, save up the pennies and get a quality set up. I was asked for advice from a friend with squirrel problems who wanted rifle, scope, bag, and pellets for under £200 . I pointed him to a good local gun shop to get advice on a second hand with that budget in mind. I would be interested in Andy's view of the rifle to scope cost ratio. For me, would suggest 3:1, so a £300 rifle might suit a £100 scope? It is also worth thinking the other way to avoid paying too much for a scope that would exceed the capabilities of the rifle.

Excelente vídeo :D

Nice info

I like the type of scope mount that still allows the use of the open sight.

:)) I have one of those cheap ones. It has mil dot and is a 2.5x10x30 If you're a shooter, you can sight anything in, even a paper clip. Sighted it in just yesterday and I was shooting 10 shots at 100 m in under a dime :)). ( So I guess it's useable). I also have a target scope made in Japan :))....now that's a gem that you zore once in a couple of years and it doesn't loose it, high quality, and a price to make you cringe compare to others.

Hey Andy, Thanks for your excellent information and comprehensive review of scopes. I recently bought four Gamo Swarm Magnum Gen 2's and decided to upgrade the BSA packaged 3-9x40 to the new line of BSA OUTLOOK 3-9x40 AO scopes and am on the wait list to buy their new upgraded BSA OUTLOOK 4-12x44 AO scopes. I don't realistically expect to shoot at or hunt game beyond 75 yards, but probably my kids may, when these rifles are theirs. I don't know if this is overkill, but there have been a lot of complaints about the previous generation of scopes and a lot of positive reviews of the newer generation of the BSA OUTLOOK models. In your opinion is the BSA OUTLOOK line capable of handling the double recoil of the GAMO SWARM MAGNUM GEN 2'S or have I been suckered into buying sub par scopes? I don't know enough about airguns or scopes to know what to look out for, so if you can tell me what kind of scope damage to look out for or how long the scope should last it would be much appreciated. Stay Safe, Be Well, God Bless.

Hello Andy, if I may come with suggestion: entry level collimators episode? ie. models for lower powered pistol breakbarrel springers, 12g CO2s pistols/revolvers or pistols modded into carbines etc?

hi Andy.... very informative video review on the different scopes...im a beginner owner of a PCP airgun and looking for a good scope but unfortunately dont have the budget..😊 how i wish to have one of the scope you reviewed... thanks for sharing..

I like the bushnell stuff but here in the UK they are on the more expensive side of things, apparently they are a pretty affordable brand over in the USA

Why your not hosting a main stream show on uk TV, there is no justice….good work sir 🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😁

Andy you are a legend. Keep up the good work

Thanks for the run through I have just bought a rifle with one of these sights although it's not marked. The problem is the adjustments do not work, left / right ,up/ down they stick and then flip making adjustments vertually impossible. Something you did not test

Loved this review as a million years ago in the British army I used scopes that cost 2 grand now my budget is allot less and there are some very good budget scopes and all I can say is take a look through them and see what you prefer I have a millbro 100 pound scope and it is very good in the 20 40 and right out to 100 yard shots and are half inch groups but should be said practice makes perfect and I do shoot alot and that helps as I know where to hold over and under compared to a very expensive options

Just the intro alone is worth a like

great info just what i was looking for. You can use a thumb nail to click the turrets, not needing any screwdriver.

Hi Andy, super smooth (as in no errr errrrmmmm ehhhh) narative. Much appreciated, and rare today!!... where in Spain were you?..is that the Ebro per chance in the Background?...Although British, I am her in Mahon, Menorca, have been since 2020.....

I have a Mil-dot scope it’s a Nikko Stirling night eater 6-24x44. I’ve never seen a reticle like it tho. Instead of the dots being relatively close together and a line going out to the edges of the scope they are spaced around 1/8” apart and the 4 dots go almost to the edge with hardly any line. If I need to use hold over/under I’m like half way between dots most of the time. Have you seen this type?

Thank you. A much needed video. Getting older sucks bud. Optics with magnification is a must after say 40. Most of the scopes on my PCPs are under 130$ and only 1 is over 50$. I do like the 30mm scope tubes the most though but the 1” tubes on these budget scopes like you said not bad at all. I do however do like magnification of 4-16 or more on the higher power and at least 44 mm objective with parallax adjustment capabilities. Very nice review enjoy Spain and Oh while you are there...would it be possible to find out and settle the question about Daisy Hollow point pellets made in Spain being simply Gamo Red Fire without the red polymer tip. They are both under the same roof, Daisy and Gamo and both made in Spain. On my digital scale the Daisy weighs 15.4 grains and the Gamo Red Fire with the tip weighs 15.8 and without weighs 15.4... so go figure. The softness is the same and so is the design similarities. You have the charisma and are far more articulate than most, so I believe you could get this info out of them. Thanks again love your videos and what you share with all of us here in the states. Thanks so much and happy new year!

I use the gamo 4-12x44ao I believe it’s wonderful

He's the John Wilson of Air guns! Angler's will get the reference.

Andy, thanks for the video. I am going on year 3 of my air gunning adventure so I have been dismissed from your class but I wanted to ask why you left off the CV-LIFE line of scopes (Amazon). These scopes come in the 3-9x40, 4-16X44, and 6-24X50, all with AO (Adjustable Objectives!) for under $55 American. I have the 6-24 (not really getting the correct magnification but still works good at, lets say 16x)... it hangs in there with my most expensive Hawke scope and I only paid $53 for it! PS, I was no good after you mentioned Kim Kardashian's butt!

Hi Andy , where canyou get the tape in the mounts ? as i changed scopes and they fell out and wouldnt stay in ? any help

Nice bass tone at 0:19

Could you run a Nikon Prostaff Rimfire .22LR 4-12X40 BDC 150 on a Gamo Urban/Coyote PCP Rifle ?

as a Portuguese I feel betrayed that you had your vacation in Spain as we have the oldest ally Just being ironic :D No serious you should go to Portugal

Andy what about gamo 1" 3x32 wr vampir built in laser is this good for dreamlike tac thanks

12:03 Your Welcome

Are laser sights ‘ pointers any good, if so what would you recommend? Thanks

A big thanks .. form the real people...the most i would ever spend on a scope is a 100 dollars so 55 sounds alot better..thanks alot.

Scout scopes are very effective.

It was sunny in the UK

Hi Andy. Loving the review and the channel. I have a question I'm sure you'll be able to answer. I'm in effect brand new to the sport and shoot in my small back garden, at the moment, which is just under 30 ft long from the firing position. I wear glasses which means I have focusing issues so wondered if a scope would help. I've been looking at the Hawke 2-7x32 Mil Dot AO. Is this my Best budget scope option. Thanks

Thanks Andy, another informative review, I've been shooting various disciplines for some 40 years so should have been dismissed but as most of my shooting has not been with scopes I thought I'd stay with the class, since getting a AA S410 a few years ago is when a scope was needed so I got the BSA like the one in your review it's given good service and cannot fault it but apart from looking though the thing I knew nothing about the technical side of things so as they say every day is a school day, Had to smile at your coffee magically going down lol

happy with my Nikko Sterling mount master 4x12x50 AO IR ,bit more expensive than the others here but fine on a budget on top of my HW97K

Love your videos. You can make me watch stuff i have no interest in just because of your presentation

Appreciate the vid, Andy! Hope you have a great holiday!

Are you by the side of lake Vinuela by any chance?

is 4-12x44ao good for my hatsan edge 1000fps, is it worth 150 dollars, dont have much options in my country.

Out of curiosity what are the airgun laws in Spain like compared to the U.K

What about the Tasco World Class 3-9x40?

whats a good scope for the crosman sbr

Awesome vid .. i was looking for a cheap scope to mount to ny anchient bsa cadet . I found a richter optic .4x40 . For £18.59 from js ramsbotoms I think it's the same as the gamo scope . But has mill dot with thumb click adjusters . And metal screws caps . And flip up covers .. they had the gamo too but was sold out .. again great vid just thought I would share my experience. And another great shop for pellets and bits for rifles

Thanks, Andy, for the extensive info on the low-cost scopes. 5: 07, the rifle will move around the same regardless the power scope mounted. The movement is just more noticeable while looking at it thru a high magnification scope. 14: 31. The elastic strings on the "elasticated" lense covers I had, set a new world endurance record of 14 days.

I have two air rifles, and have the same model of scope on both. It's the Anglo Arms 4x32 Scope, With Red/Green illuminated Crosshairs. They were selling at £36-95 each (mounts included), but he let me have them for £30 a piece, when I bought them at the same time as I bought the rifles. It's a basic scope, but I like the design of the reticle, and the fact it's illuminated. Batteries are readily available at pound shops.

Could you maybe do the next step up. First upgrade scope maybe? Would be nice to know what we need to look for when improving our kit.

Where can I get one of your baseball caps?

I was the 100,000 view!

Very good video and one of the best demonstrations of parallax error! The scope diameter (1" or 30mm) makes virtually no difference whatsoever to the amount of light that a scope can transmit. The lens quality, the lens coatings and the lens alignment precision have a much greater effect. Even the best high end scopes can only transmit around 90% of available light at most. The other thing with cheaper scopes is how long they will last on a recoiling gun. They may look good and work reasonably well for a few shots, but how many of them can cope with a high recoil over a few thousand shots? (sometimes, depending upon the gun you use, it is better to save up and buy a bit of quality that will last for years rather then days)Some of those scopes look like they come out of the same factory in China that manufactures the horrific "CenterPoint" POS that comes with many Crosman guns- Avoid at all costs, they are junk.

Thank you sir andy for review,my question is its possible to airport when I'm go home in the Philippines.if I buy scope...

I'm looking for a parallax adjustable in the $150 to 200ish range. I ran into Discovery brand for air rifle Magnum 22 (strong recoil). Any help?? Thanks in advance!

Hi Andy nice review but you might want to talk to an optics specialist. There is a myth out there that the diameter of the tube has somrthing to do with the light transmission. This is entirely incorrect. Primary effect is from the objective size and lens quality the coatings are next. A greater diameter tube allows for more elevation to be dialed in, hence the rush to make 30mm+ scopes for the longrange community.

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Scope or binocular or sailor scope (monocular) which is better at see things far away for sightseeing? Which should I get?

Enjoy the sun

Una Cafe Cortado Per Favor...

Why do viewers even bother watching when it is quite clear that they have no interest in the low end of the market. They must have nothing better to do. Keep up the good work. I like the channel just the way it is.

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well done. I kept waiting for your 'coffee' to be refilled ... oh, the suspense!

Hawke ftw

That Guinness looks dodgy, I'd send it back

It should have a tipping sister Bluetooth to headset Shooting like a metal detector

Sport?