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Scope Question
Junkballer
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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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http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=40495033
This one is in the running too.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=40494958
TIA[8D]
Stay Alert! Stay Alive. Good luck out there.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Any idea how these rate. Never heard of them. Looking for a scope for my shotgun. Thanks in advance
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Thanks Dave
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Anybody know where I can get some information on a scope built by The Maxwell Smith Co. in L.A. It seams to be a fairly well built scope with very fine cross hairs and a small red field type of mount. Thanks
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
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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