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I recently purchased an older, used Daisy break-barrel, .177 air rifle with scope. Being a hillbilly by birth, and a gunsmith by trade, I was thinking of how to improve accuracy when it dawned on me that having the scope mounted on the receiver of a hinged barrel action, moving the scope to the barrel would/should/could improve accuracy of the rifle and increase the speed with which I am coverng the west wall of the barn with chipmunk hides. Does anyone make a long eye relief scope for air rifles? Mike Ryan - Gunsmith | ||
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Never heard of one specifically for airguns, but would some sort of a pistol scope work? Or maybe a Red Dot? "When doing battle, seek a quick victory." | |||
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I thought of that but every time I have mounted a non-airgun scope on an airgun for a customer, the scope eventually failed to hold zero. I need a scope due to old eyeballs. Mike Ryan - Gunsmith | |||
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A spring air gun of course requires a special scope made to be used on spring air. I mounted a pistol scope way forward on a Sheridan Streak ( not spring air---pump up) and i found it to be clumsy indeed. I have old eyeballs----matches the rest of me and peep sights work very well. If you have to wear reading glasses or bifocals to read--remove your glasses hold your finger tightly curled so it makes a small hole---place this hole next to your eye and looking through it you can read print. It makes your eye focus which it has lost the ability to do and that's what the reading glasses/bifocals are doing. Peeps work the same way. A few years ago I used the smallest aperture I could get--but in time had to move to a larger one. | |||
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If it's a decent break barrel it should be OK unless the gun is NFG there's not much between it and a fixed barrel. How far do you need to shoot? I have 6x on a BSA break action .177 and 30y is no prob. to get rats etc. Also have 54 year old eyes and the left one is pretty buggered up, lucky I don't need it for a scoped gun. Can't hit shit with a shot gun any more. "When doing battle, seek a quick victory." | |||
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