can an air gun scope be used on a high power rifle?

Answer 1

No. In general your air gun scopes can't handle the recoil produced by today's high powered rifles. But if you look around on the Internet there are quite a few company's that buy overstock and discontinued items and sell them at a discount. This is one company I use quite a bit and have had no trouble with.
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/

Answer 2

Actually it's quite the reverse of what people expect. If the scope can handle the shock from a spring air gun then it will be fine on most rifles. My 300WSM has never shot a sight loose, my RWS 48 side lever has. It's the jolt of the piston coming to rest, there's no comparable shock in a regular rifle, the recoil feels worse to a person but it is actually less acceleration spread over a longer period.

But there is one unforseen problem, airgun scopes are often parallax corrected for 50 yards, full bore scopes will usually be corrected for a few hundred yards, so you may find unexpected accuracy issues.

Answer 3

It depends on what brand and make.
I use a Simmons 44 Mag on my high powered
air rifles. They don't make those any more.
Spring powered air guns have a diffrent type of recoil compared
to firearms. Spring powered guns have a forward reverse recoil,
where as firearms have a reverse recoil. Belive it or not, many
scopes can't handle the recoil of a high powered springer airgun.
Anyone don't belive me?
Contact the major optics maker that makes scopes, and ask them about their scopes, and why they don't handle the recoil.
I've sent many of the top manufactures scope back for repair and warranty work for broken cross hairs and lenses that came off the scope from my air rifles.

Answer 4

Air guns recoil different than that of firearms. So no you can not use the scope on a Rifle. Same goes for a scope made for firearms they can not be used on air guns. Because of the different recoil paterns in the guns you will destroy the scope inside

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Answer 5

Chances are it wont mount up. If it does you'll have a hard tome bore sighting it properly. I would not suggest you try it. If indeed it did work the shock from firing the rifle would throw the scope off target.
The air gun scope is built to mount on an air gun.

Answer 6

I WOULD NOT ADVISE IT.
ACTUALLY AIRGUN SCOPES DESIGNED FOR USE ON SPRING PISTON AIRGUNS HAVE A PADDING FACTOR ON BOTH SIDES OF THE LENSES. THIS IS SPECIFIC TO THE TYPE OF DOUBLE RECOIL EFFECT CAUSED BY THE BOUNCING SPRING AND PISTON. AN AIR GUN WILL RUIN A GOOD HIGH POWER RIFLE SCOPE THAT IS DESIGNED FOR THE REARWARD ONLY RECOIL OF CRTRIDGE TYPE GUNS.
THE MAIN PROBLEM WITH THE AIRGUN SCOPE IS IN THE PARALAX. MOST AIRGUN SCOPES ARE SET UP FOR VERY SHORT PARALAX, USUALLY 10-20 YARDS.
SINCE YOU WILL BE SHOOTING YOUR RIFLE A GOOD BIT FUTHER THAN THAT YOU WILL FIND THE SCOPE NOT CAPABLE OF GOOD ACCURACY AT DISTANCES FURTHER THAN ITS DESIGN ALLOWS. PARALAX IS AN INVISIBLE ERROR INHERENT TO ALL SCOPES.
IT IS BEST TO MATCH THE PARALAX FACTOR TO THE DISTANCE YOU WILL BE SHOOTING. IF YOU HAVE NOTICED SOME RIFLE SCOPES WITH ADJUSTABLE FRONT OPTICS MARKED FOR 100, 200,300 YARDS ETC THEY ARE DIALING OUT THE PARALAX ERROR.
FIXED SCOPES DO NOT HAVE THAT CAPABILITY AND AN AIRGUN SCOPE SET FOT SHORT RANGES WILL BE VERY POOR AT LONG RANGES.
HOPE THIS HELPS. HAPPY SHOOTING.

Answer 7

Nope, you could probably get it mounted on the gun but then you'd experience what my friend did. He put some cheap scope he bought at walmart (he said it was a great deal, it's because it was with the bb-guns. he's dumb he can't help it.) He put it on his .50 cal black powder rifle, went to sight it in pulled the trigger, and when the smoke cleared he was on his a$$ cuzz the back lense had hit him in the face and he thought the bullet had ricocheted back at him. LOL, I wish I had a camera that picture would have been priceless.

Answer 8

I would imagine you could, but why would you want to? The field of view isn't very far with an air rifle scope.