Scope Rings for S510

[puddleglum]

Hi all,

I just got an Air Arms S510 XS. I decided to borrow a Primary Arms 4-14X44 FFP from another of my air guns to try this new rifle out, and while I decide what scope to get for it. I read a few places where people said they needed high rings to clear the magazine on their S510, and a few people said they use medium rings. I opted for high, and ordered a set of BKL 374 since most agreed the offset is very helpful. Here it is mounted up.

It is kind of tricky to get the calipers in there to get a precise measurement, but between the magazine and the scope, there is about .35-.38". It seems like that should provide enough clearance to go with a lower set of rings. Problem is, I haven't been able to find any 30mm tube, 11mm dovetail mount, offset rings. Maybe there is a product that is exactly what I am looking for and I just have not tripped over it yet in all my web crawling. Maybe there is a dovetail to picatinny mount that would then let me use low rings. 

Anyone found a way to get their scope a little lower on an S510?

Thanks,

-pg

Edit: I completely mistyped the distance between mag and scope. Corrected.

 

[rcs9250]

I have an S510 XS. I don’t have offset rings on it but as I recall the mag just clears by a little bit. Let me check when I get home tonight. 

Randy

 

[rcs9250]

OK, so here’s some pictures of what I believe are medium rings. They don’t look like any model of BKL’s and I looked at Utah, Arizona and Pyramyd offerings but nothing looks “exactly” like mine. Mine have a tapped hole that you thread one of the clamp screws into it to spread the dovetail if necessary to aid in sliding onto guns dovetail, I did not see any models like that.

Perhaps someone will recognize them.

As you can see though, my Element scope just clears the magazine indexer.

Randy

 

[puddleglum]

Those look like BKL's 'low' rings, which are about 0.3" lower than the high ones.

I should have clearance for that height, but I think I still need offset rings for this scope. The picture I posted must have been before I got my scope completely lined up, as it is farther forward now to get proper alignment between my Neanderthal head and the eye relief of the scope. If I move it back anymore the edges start going black.

There isn't enough space on the gun's dovetail to get a standard ring in front of the turret housing on this scope. It is fine for now, I can get a comfortable enough chin weld, but I will eventually try to find a scope that will work with lower rings and that has a bit longer eye relief.

 

[DARKHORSE1967]

Install a GodAGrip sorbothane (SopMod) cheek rest on yours.

Mine also has a low 30mm BKL, but w/o the cheek rest it was not ideal:

 

[puddleglum]

Glad to see the low BKL rings should work. I have a non-ambi stock, with a different monte carlo cheek riser so I don't think that cheek rest will work on mine.

I will see how the new rings and scope work. I was pretty close to good with the high rings, so maybe the .3" drop in scope height will get me there.