It is absolutely counter intuitive, but air guns are harder on scopes than centerfire rifles. Because they reverse direction it puts a heck of an acceleration on the scope and mounts. I think it has to do with the second derivative of velocity, when velocity reverses, acceleration hits...
Ithaca 12 gauge Model 37 pump. #4 buckshot first shot and then 00 as he ran away. Found him dead with one #4 in the heart and one 00 in a ham. Only deer I ever shot with a shotgun.
Those were put up fairly recently in Alabama. They were also placed at Mississippi welcome stations, but the governor told the Department of Transportation to take them down. Some of the Alabama signs are not very prominently displayed.
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