Scope ideas for a break piston airgun

[fotohunt]

My 3 year old son seems to be getting more interested in shooting. I have an old break-barrel piston air rifle and am looking for a decent scope to put on it as it has a junker on it now. Not trying to beak the bank, just want something in the 3-9x40/50 range. Was looking at the Swift Premier air gun scope. Anyone used one or have a better suggestion? I do have a Nikon M-223 4-12 side focus and an oldLeupold VXII 3-9x40 on hand.
Thanks,

Darrell

 

[JRS]

At that age, I would start him out with open sights.

 

[fotohunt]

At that age, I would start him out with open sights.

You are right. I would, however the air gun I have has no provisions for open sights, it’s a 3/8” dovetail receiver. He does have a Crickett 22 with peep sights. I just had this old air rifle and wanted to set it up with a better scope.

 

[JRS]

Take a look at the UTG line of air gun scopes. They are well made, inexpensive and are made to withstand that type of recoil.

 

[M-61]

withstand that type of recoil.

Most important.

 

[Outrider27]

What JRS said. They are available from a number of air rifle vendors.

 

[Capt. Oblivious]

Gamo scopes are tough and cheap but with enought "bounce" a springer will destroy any scope but if its a piston and not n spring powerd rifle the gamo will hold up very well.

 

[Savage 7mm rem mag]

My TR-77 NPS absolutely ate scopes, I then got an OPTISAN COBRA and it was perfect, held up well and shot true time and again and was not too expensive, also get yourself a good one piece mount the BKL one was good, I had to put a pin in the hole on the rifle and butt the mount to it as it was near impossible to get it to stay put other wise

https://www.optisanoptics.com/cobra-3-9-x42mm/

http://www.bkltech.com/BKL-1-Long-Adaptor-Mount-p/bkl-460.htm

 

[bman940]

Years ago I did some product testing for Nikon. 1000 rounds of .177 pellet's through a break open air rifle. Zero was 50 yards, fired 100 then shot a 5 shot group. Repeated the drill until 1000 pellet's fired. I did this with 2 break open air rifles and 2 Nikon Riflefire specific scopes. No isuues at all and even if someone has a problem the scopes are covered by Nikon's No fault policy. Of course I was smart enough to enlist some buds to make it a competition so that I didn't have to do all the work. I can tell you that you need to clean the barrel about ever 25 shots as some lead residue is left in the barrel. This Nikon scope is the PROSTAFF 3-9 EFR with parallax adjustment. You would be fine with a Rimfire scope with a 50 yard fixed parallax.

 

[fotohunt]

Thanks for all the replies. I will check them all out.

-Darrell

 

[snert]

I had a RWS 48 22 and an old RWS 45 (unerlever) and both are hard on scopes. I used BSA 2-7 air rifle scopes on them with the RWS mount (which has more screws in it than a swiss watch). I had one scope failure and BSA replaced it no questions. They hold up ok for a scope uner $150. I think mine was $89...

These have adjustable parralax and make decent hunting scopes on 22 as well.

 

[dgeesaman]

I’ve always used Leupold EFR or Bushnell Elite with AO or side parallax on my springers. Both will handle the double recoil, have a robust warranty, and focus down to 10y.

Straightshooters sells many airguns and has a short list of scopes that they have rated for “heavy” airgun recoil. Worth a look.

David