Night Scope Suitable for Older .22 Rifle

[David61]

Glad it worked. If you need a scope for low light use get a leapers utg 32 colors bugbuster scope. $100-$140 depending on sales.
bb gun, .22 or AR15 this scope holds zero. The cross hair mill dot can be lit in 36 diffrent colors in hight or low to fit your needs. full moon or dim light this works great as one of the colors blends to work without blinding you.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Truthfully, even an experienced shooter would struggle to humanely kill a fox with a .22LR. An amateur, with bad vision, shooting at night? You'll be lucky to wound it, which is disservice to you and the animal.

Night vision scopes are extremely expensive and impractical for rimfire rifles. You'd spend 10-20x the value of the rifle on a night optic. If you are set on shooting it from a distance, get a more powerful centerfire rifle and some glasses or contacts. Handheld night vision monoculars are much cheaper than firearm optics and may help you at least initially locate the animal. If your intrinsic night sight is too poor to shoot it properly, I'd resort to trapping. Once its trapped, you can either relocate it or humanely dispatch it. I'd still recommend more than a .22LR, but it could be done with proper shot placement.

I hunt with high powered pellet guns all the way up to whitetail deer, so a rimfire can do in a little fox just fine with even a lung shot.

For future reference, you can make a poor man’s night scope by attaching a camcorder with an IR night shot mode to the eye piece of a scope and using a IR spotlight to light the area.

The above is a Sony Handicam with the IR filter removed and the hunt area lit with a IR floodlight, riding on a .25 pellet gun. Approximately 20 yards.

I also use dedicated night scopes. The below is a Russian Pulsar N550 on a .30 pellet gun about to take a beaver. Approximately 25 yards

Next is a ATN 4k Pro on a .308 airgun about to take a doe in my blueberry fields. 75 yards. The ATN is the best bang for the buck. It will set you back about $550 but has a built in ballistics calculator and can remember zero for several different guns with a quick attach picatinny mount. Its fun to use in the day on my smaller airguns to cull unwanted stags: