Page 4 - UTG Bug Buster 3-12x32 AO Reviews

Short,light weight,cool looking on my HW 30, has a side focus and holds zero pretty well.

Make a little clearer all the way to the edges, Make a 9x32 AO

It's a little to soon to be giving a review on a scope when I only have a few hundred shots with it on my HW30. You would think it should last forever on a little smooth springer with vortex kit, But all springers kill scopes. Leapers has the only scope that will hold up to my HW95's, Beeman,s and RWS guns and it's the 10x44 30mm compact that PA does not even sell. I have 4 and they are on all my higher recoil guns. Some with well over 50,000 shots and only minor adjustment from time to time. I have had a lot of the scopes they claim will hold zero up to $300.00. (Hawke, bushnell, Simmons, even some Leapers )Junk when you mount them on a springer. Don't believe those U tube air gun scope experts. Got 3 bug busters but this is my first side focus. Hope it holds up. PS. multiple mil dots are the only way to have fun shooting quality air guns from 25 to 90 yds.

Very clear viewing optics. I'm not sure I'd be able to literally shoot a bug at any great distance, but that's more me at fault than the scope. Mounted on an older Diana 34 with the Vortek spring kit, this thing has held zero for well over 100 shots without loosening. I'm using some Leapers Accushot Rings, High Rise 9.5-11.5mm Dovetail versions and they work great. The zoom is a nice to have, at 12x at 60' (my indoor range) I can clearly see a bullseye printed no larger than the .177 pellets I'm shooting. At 3x, I'm still seeing plenty to shoot 1/2" groups. I'll probably try one of the fixed zoom illuminated versions next. Parallax Adjustment is very nice. For a cross-dominant shooter with glasses, I'm shooting way better than I used to with a less adjustable scope. Elevation and windage adjustments feel great and lock in nicely. Overall compact size is very nice and fits the dimensions of an air rifle very well.

I did get a slight POI shift through the zoom range. Above 3x, I shoot about 1-1.5" high at 60' depending on the zoom level. I could re-zero and hold zoom, but what is the point of a zoom scope if you can't change it? I confirmed that after zeroing the scope in by taking 5 shot groups of this rifle's preferred pellet (JSB Match Diablo Exact RS 7.33gr) at each of the zoom settings (4 thru 10) and consistently shot a bit higher than 3x. It could just be me, but 40 shots in a row slowly moving up through the range when windage stayed locked in confirms it to me.

I previously used the UTG scope droop mount made for the RWS break barrels and I couldn't get enough adjustment to zero a scope out. It way overcompensated, so the the normal mounts directly mounted to the gun and this scope combined work much better. I needed about 7MOA elevation adjustment down to zero this gun out.

This is the only non-illuminated Bug Buster. I'd looked at the whole line for so long that I didn't realize this wasn't illuminated until I got it, a slight disappointment as I was curious to try illuminated, but not the end of the world.

Short focus and light weight.

Nothing.

Great scope.

This is a fine little scope with clear glass throughout the magnification range, lockable turrets, and a side adjust AO. The mil-dot reticle is much thinner than the old Bug Busters, making this scope ideal for target shooting, or wherever a wide field of vision isn't needed. It comes in a nice box.

For mounting to dovetails a set of rings/one-piece mount is needed as the rings included fit only Weaver/Picatinny rails.