Scope Question

Junkballer

April 26, 2012 05:39

I just bought a Marlin 1895 Guide Gun in 45/70...the sights are ok, but with my eye sight getting older I was wondering if a scope wouldn't be benificial...any thoughts and what type of scope..make model etc..

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  Junkballer

  April 26, 2012 05:39

  I came across a 6.5-20x50AO Leupold scope, in excellent condition. It is late 70's or early 80's production. What's it worth?[?]

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  mrbruce

  April 26, 2012 05:49

  Not a problem doing that, it's the reverse recoil in the springers that kills the rifle scopes..

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  Junkballer

  April 26, 2012 06:36

  Thanks, I figured it was something of that nature [;)]

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  beantownshootah

  April 26, 2012 08:56

  quote:Originally posted by Junkballer
  I know putting a rifle scope on a B.B gun will damage the scope, but I have a cheap air rifle scope and am curious will putting it on my Marlin 39 .22 damage it. Not really worrying about damage, just curious if the reverse situation applies here too. [:)] Any expeience ??
  
  
  No, it shouldn't hurt your air rifle scope.
  
  In fact some of the lower end scopes are advertised as for either .22 or air rifles.
  
  What "kills" ordinary scopes is the double-recoil snap of PISTON driven air rifles. Basically after you pull the trigger the piston driving the pellet moves forward, expelling the pellet and causing a normal rearwards recoil impulse. So far so good, but when the piston hits the END of its travel moving forward, then it generates a rather harse reverse (ie forward moving) recoil impulse.
  
  It's that FORWARD impulse that shakes the guts loose on conventional riflescopes not designed to handle it.
  
  Needless to say, you don't get the same kind of harsh double-recoil impulse with ordinary .22 rifles.
  
  Its also worth mentioning that you also don't get the double-recoil impulse with either pump-up airrifles (including many BB guns) or with CO2-driven air rifles. In theory, ordinary rifle scopes should work just fine on either of those two types of air-rifles, though in practice, the best scope for an air-rifle is probably going to be one specifically designed for an air rifle with low magnification, and short-range (or adjustable) parallax.

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  Junkballer

  April 26, 2012 09:47

  Good answer, sure did'nt know that about the pump up air rifle being different, may have to try a better scope on ole daisy pump -up [:)]

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