Air gun scopes?

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HankC said:
Now my memory is coming back on it. Will need to remove the front lens completely and move the internal thread tube so to lock the front lens at the new setting after adjustment. I remember is moving the front lens forward, so it is possible not removing the lens completely but put an thin O ring at the "gap", turn and seal the front lens. Why I did not think of doing so at the time!
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My bad. I take a rifle and look at the scope. The front lens is on a sleeve and the sleeve is inside the outer "lock" ring, there are 2 notches on the lens sleeve at the front that I turned the sleeve when the lock ring is loose. No need to completely remove the front lens. LoonWulf is correct! It has been at least 10 yrs!
 
3Crows said:
OP, just get a BSA air rifle scope or something like the Leepers Bug Buster. I am not into putting $1,000 scopes on air rifles, especially a break barrel that will have questionable accuracy and will sooner or later possibly destroy it.

I would not put a Leupold on a magnum break barrel rifle unless I was wanting to test their warranty terms and they are not BB guns. The recoil cycle on even medium power break barrel rifles is brutal on scopes and a magnum break barrel will destroy scopes and the more expensive they are the more the magnum break barrel will relish ruining them.

And there is nothing about an AR15 that causes a violent recoil reversal as occurs in a break barrel (springer) rifle. It is not a good comparison or test.

Precharged pneumatic rifles and pumper pneumatics have virtually no recoil and what little there is will be normal in direction. Powder burners may kick seemingly like a mule but while it may seem to knock the slobber out of us it is nonetheless progressive. The instantaneous slamming stop of the spring piston assembly is violent and sudden t hough the total intensity is less there is a damaging spike and it is in the wrong direction to make it worse.
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Ah but the BCG does slam forward on a AR15
 
misser said:
Ah but the BCG does slam forward on a AR15
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Not even close. I too have an AR and enjoy it and they can be rough on scopes when we start banging away with them. People often put more rounds through an AR in one session than through a bolt rifle in a lifetime. Thats what gets the scopes on ARs, not the bolt closing.
 
3Crows said:
Not even close. I too have an AR and enjoy it and they can be rough on scopes when we start banging away with them. People often put more rounds through an AR in one session than through a bolt rifle in a lifetime. Thats what gets the scopes on ARs, not the bolt closing.
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my experience is disagrees with yours .i am not some one that go's out and bangs out round after round . i ws just setting a bench working up loadings to find that loading that works very well.
 
ya know, ive never broken a scope with an AR, and most of mine are larger than standard rounds. My lone .223/5.56 is a light weight (5.75lbs or so), and its getting a light leupy scope when the mount comes in, so well see.
Ive in fact Ive only ever SEEN two (that i can remember right now) scopes actually break during use. One was on my 06ai last month, and the other was saturday on my buddies 783 .223, rear lense literally fell out....funniest thing ever.
 
Over my lifetime I have had a lot of scopes break. It was working fine, I put the rifle away, pull it out a year later and it will not hold zero. All of these anecdotal stories are just that. Scopes break and if you put a non-springer rated scope on your strong (or not even very strong) spring break barrel rifle it is very likely to damage it. And, I am one of those people who feels badly when I do something to a product and break it due to my own negligence, then would consider that dishonest if I then returned it and said something like ,"I dunno, it just broke, duh" as I would have to tell the truth. Just me I guess. Every time one of these air rifle scope threads comes up there is this comparison to an AR, it is not the same in any way, the bolts close on my 1022 and my BAR also. Yeah, ARs are rough on scopes, I agree, but they do not have that sudden, high intensity recoil reversal that the massive piston assembly creates when it slams to an instantaneous stop into the front of the compression chamber.
 
I had a scope lens shattered in shooting on my magnum springer, Xisco B21 - a Chinese copy of RWS48, it was a no name cheap scope, glad it was front lens, not rear lens near my eye. I tuned the rifle, put on a Tasco World Class scope, still going strong!
 
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