Can you use two piece recoil scope mounts to keep from destroying a scope?
Was told that an airgun has two recoils. Unschooled as I am in airguns, it's the second recoil that breaks the scope. Better to use a scope designed specifically with airguns in mind.
Was told that an airgun has two recoils. Unschooled as I am in airguns, it's the second recoil that breaks the scope. Better to use a scope designed specifically with airguns in mind.
Funny, I have an old Beeman Blue Ribbon 3-9 scope that was made for airguns. It has been on a FWB 124, for a little over 40 years now and still going strong.The spring/nitro piston break barrel type rifles have a double recoil. There is a rearward recoil when the spring shoves the piston forward and there is a violent snap to a forward recoil when the piston slams to the end of travel and comes to a sudden and jarring stop.
A PCP, precharged pneumatic rifle, or a pump up type pneumatic rifle, do not have any (adverse) recoil and can use any scope. But those horrible spring rifles, any with enough power to do anything useful with, will destroy in short order just about any scope, even those supposedly rated for spring rifles.
Funny, I have an old Beeman Blue Ribbon 3-9 scope that was made for airguns. It has been on a FWB 124, for a little over 40 years now and still going strong.
Of the several rifles I have had that made upwards of 18 to 30 fpe they all killed scopes rapidly and were a b----h to keep the scopes from moving.