As was mentioned, the objective diameter will determine how close you can get the scopes center to the rifle, but a large objective lens scope could still be used, you would just need taller rings.
My HW30 .20 cal @ 392 fps, 13.73gr Exacts, slams my paddles on my Crazy Eights at 75 yards, but my Webly Valcan .177 @ 802 fps, 7.87gr Exacts, only wiggles them.
It just so happens that I have a similar conundrum. Fortunately the warentee work can include the repair, having them install a Vortec kit, degrease the original lube, clean it up, and do some trigger work, while maintaining the warentee.
I am mostly plinking with them at the moment, and the .30 cal damages things. Lol My range back stops are 30 and 75 yards with steel swinger's Crazy Eights, shot shell hulls, bottle caps and wire nuts etc. The shot count on your 177 must be crazy. I get 3 mags of 13 with the .30.
Thanks My 30 is crazy accurate, but I feel a bit clumsy with it, knocking the barrel on stuff ect. I'm thinking that the rifle will be more handy/user freindly, with the short barrel is all.
I have been thinking about a short 22 cal change for my Crown. It is a .30 cal 600mm, I searched for .30 cal 380mm, but I haven't seen one that wasn't kit with the bolt. I thought if I'm bying the bolt kit anyway I may as well get a .22cal. Your thoughts?
I just got a new scope, (not from AoA), but it had a distortion in it. I nearly had a heart attack. So I put my jeweler glasses on and had a look at the lenses. It turned out to be a small eyebrow or eyelash hair dead center in the ocular lense. If it was mine it happened coming out of the box...
It was an AoA employee? I thought it was the scope company. AoA has been excellent with me through the years. I take note of which employee I'm dealing with, they have all been good so far.
Any chance of pellet spiraling? I saw a video once by Ted Beir showing spiraling. Interestingly the gun would still shoot groups, but the groups would move around the spiral axis with range changes. My suggestion would be that pressure changes may have the same effect moving the group in the...
I don't know any details, but I have seen conversions to pump or slide actions that might be better for you. Two of my Grand Children are left eye dominant, right hand shooters. They both chose to shoot right eyed with the left eye closed. They shoot with their dominate Eye when using pistols.