Questions for you magnum & gas ram owners

[josh3rd]

So what are you guys using for scope and mounts on your Beeman/HW gas rams? And why?

 

[gadballs9]

BKL or Diana Bullseye for mounts. I'd watch Joe's videos for really good scope info. Cyclops Videos on YT.

 

[AirgunnerSC]

I use Hammer scopes and mounts on my magnum springer. Holds zero and withstand the recoil. Here is a link

to the company that distributes and sells the scopes.

http://hammersbinoculars.stores.yahoo.net/info.html

 

[josh3rd]

Thanks fellas

 

[addertooth]

Mounts with scope stop screws are very useful on springers. As said earlier, Joe Wayne Rhea has a nice video on a Diana mount which puts the scope on spring buffered rails to reduce scope damage.

 

[John "spysir" Blount]

The bullseye can have issues.

BKL is a standard that's hard to argue with, once properly torqued down ( several times normally) you can take the screws out hit it with a large mallet and not budge the rings/mount.

John

 

[G-Man]

I have 2 of the Beeman 5039 1-Pc Adjustable Mount w/1" Rings, High, 9.5-11mm Dovetail. Optically centered my scopes using the mirror trick and then adjusted the mount to get on center. One-piece, very sturdy, don't move on my rifles. I also use lock washers on both the scope mount and the main mount. Very happy.

Greg

 

[Guest]

I don't own any of the rifles in question, but I like Hawke mounts the most now. They stay put when properly installed. I use all the scope stop holes in the rifle between mounts if present. Like my Striker 1000x .22. Winchester mounts, but will get changed as money permits to Hawk mounts. I also use Hawke Weaver mounts on the newer rifles that have the welded Weaver rails.

 

[josh3rd]

G-man don't you have to remove the scope eveytime you make adjustments to the mounts?

 

[Str8tshooter]

I use one piece mounts on all of my springers, I prefer Sportsmatch over BKL's and use them on my HW Rifles. My Diana's all have barrel droop, so besides the adjustable mounts which I tried and did not care for, that only leaves the RWS/Diana mounts and BKL's that I am aware of? I use the one piece BKL Droop mount for my Diana's, along with blue loctite on all the bolt threads and 3m friction tape on the scope rings. I will probably try the Bullseye at some point, seems the reviews were getting better with the newer versions, but I have not researched that as of late.

 

[G-Man]

Had to remove it once or twice to get it real close, then use the scope adjustments (elevation only). It was worth the effort!

 

[nced]

I don't have a "rammer", however I've recently (within the last few months) started using the UTG MNT-DTW145 Universal Dovetail To Picatinny/Weaver Adaptor along with the relatively cheap Weaver Quad lock rings on both my .177 HW95 and .177 Beeman R9. The UTG Universal mount is a one piece base with a design similar to the BKL one piece mount, however the UTG also comes with stop pins. The UTG mount doesn't slide on my HW95 receiver like the BKL one piece did and the Weaver quad Lock rings don't require the "friction tape lining" that I needed to keep the scope from sliding in the rings like the BKL .............

















Here are some issues I had with the one piece BKL mount even when torquing the base screws to 40in/lbs (5 in/lbs over the BKL recommended max torque). LOL...at least the scope held firm in the rings after using electrical friction tape.....



Without friction tape in the BKL saddles...........





Anywhoo....I don't know if the UTG Universal mount would work for you but they do hold for me where the one piece BKL would slip and the narrow top straps of the two piece mounts would dent the scope tube using 15 in/lbs of screw torque while the scope would slip using 10 in/lbs of torque.........

 

[josh3rd]

Ed, how is it kinda similar to the bkl? I'm assuming "self-centering"?

 

[josh3rd]

But G-Man, I always thought/felt that adjustable mounts, on springs, were a no no, due to their recoil.