Hi All,
A friend mentioned that I needed to be careful about putting risers on my air rifle scopes and that the limit measured from the receiver to the bottom of the scope tube could not be more than 1.5". Using BKL risers, my Open class rifle measured 1.52" in the front and 1.56" at the back rings. This was measured from the top of the receiver not the mount groove in the receiver. (I wondered because it seems different rifles might have a different depth of groove from the actual top of the receiver...) The reason for the difference front to back is the back ring has a shim).
I went to the NRA rule book. While High Power and High Power Hunting have height restrictions and Smallbore and Smallbore Hunting refer to those, being 2" and 1.5", respectively, the Air Rifle classes do not refer to any of the previous rules on scope height. I couldn't see any overall rule which applied to Air Rifle scope height.
Any NRA national match directors/judges out there? A tall necked fellow could use some advice.....
Ed Garner
A friend mentioned that I needed to be careful about putting risers on my air rifle scopes and that the limit measured from the receiver to the bottom of the scope tube could not be more than 1.5". Using BKL risers, my Open class rifle measured 1.52" in the front and 1.56" at the back rings. This was measured from the top of the receiver not the mount groove in the receiver. (I wondered because it seems different rifles might have a different depth of groove from the actual top of the receiver...) The reason for the difference front to back is the back ring has a shim).
I went to the NRA rule book. While High Power and High Power Hunting have height restrictions and Smallbore and Smallbore Hunting refer to those, being 2" and 1.5", respectively, the Air Rifle classes do not refer to any of the previous rules on scope height. I couldn't see any overall rule which applied to Air Rifle scope height.
Any NRA national match directors/judges out there? A tall necked fellow could use some advice.....
Ed Garner