JohnB wrote:
Geez Yep, that’s a beauty! I’ll measure for sure. Any problems just getting high mounts? Is there a chance it would mess with the turret range if the scope is too high off the receiver? Thanks.
Not really... If you use out the turrets adjustment, there usually would be something else and not really about the height of the mount/rings...
In theory, imagine you are shooting a laser gun and no need to worry about the trajectory of your pellet , your sight line from the scope has an angle to the line from the barrel ... The higher the scope placed, the angle will be bigger.
So, when you aim at the target, and want to hit it, your scope need to be zeroed right at the spot (the two lines just meet at the target). And if you move backwards or forward, the two line will miss each other, and you will miss the target (shooting too low or too high)
Especially power of the airgun is not as powerful as powder burners to shoot far beyond 100meters, 200 meters or more... We just shoot in 10 meter, 20 meters something... So a higher mounted scope will make the case more complicated....
If my eyes are still good as 10, 20 years ago, I would rather put open sights on all my rifles, with correct pellets and power, the tolerance for shooting distance just makes you don't even need to think about and can hit everything in your sight...
Sorry about my ESL and hope you could understand what I mean....
You might be also interested on 'hold over' / 'hold under'... That's something also related and very useful to know how a scope works...