I was looking at red dot sights for my Crosman 2300S air pistol at Primary Arms. I found one I was interested in but wasn't sure about mounting. So I emailed them a question about a mounting adapter for this particular red dot sight. The next day I received a response answering my question but adding this statement: "We do advise that our MD-RBGII and other red dots are not rated for pellet and air guns."
Does anyone know what it means for a red dot sight to be "rated for pellet and air guns?" Does it have something to do with recoil? And what red dots ARE rated for air guns?
It seems to me that any red dot sight that works on a handgun (firearm) would work fine on a pellet pistol. Am I wrong in assuming that?
The red dot will be fine for your co2 gun but might not be fine for a spring or gas ram air pistol due to the recoil. Your 2300 will have no recoil to speak of.
Quite right Bob in WV. But there is more to it than that.
Primary Arms replied again (I'm impressed with how communicative they are) with a link to an article on Bearing Arms titled "Is your scope strong enough for an airgun?". In this article they talk about the "'whip crack' reverse recoil" caused by the spring in springers. This is what damages an optical sight made for firearms where the "unidirectional physical reaction" of firearms is "from an engineering standpoint, relatively easy to design an optic to withstand."
They did not know of any red dots rated for airguns, but suggested I seek out "specialty optics...from sellers of that type of equipment."
I replied that my pistol is CO2 powered, thus not subject to the "reverse recoil" of springers. But I also stated that I doubt there are any red dots (you can substitute all optics here) "rated" for CO2 airguns. Indeed, I doubt there are ANY red dots "rated" for ANY airgun. (Am I wrong about this?) And I strongly hinted that this may be a way out of their warranty should I purchase one for my 2300S.
What if my red dot fails for some reason during the warranty period? Might the vendor come back to me and say, "I'm sorry but your warranty is void because our product is not rated for airguns."?
Does anyone know of any red dots rated for airguns? If so, I bet they are much more expensive because of the extra engineering required to put them on springers.
the only way that red dot would fail is it has a flaw in it or you hit with a hammer, a co2 rifle or pistol could not break that red dot or any red dot it's impossible
and if it breaks tell them it was on Ruger 10/22
ask them if you could put it on a 375hh and if they say yes there is nothing to worry about, they are just trying to cover there back side, a Diana 350 mag might break it and I do mean might
I saw your other post, I could not find the objective size it looks small and have you got your how to mount lined up, you will need an adapter of some sort to mount it on a dovetail or you could use a IZH 46m barrel mount but you need to make little blocks to keep it from twisting, it will not fix tight to the tube
I like the sight nice small dot and that's hard to find in a medium priced dot scope, it's light enough, 90 bucks isn't a bad price, do you like red dots
about all I have, so the bottom line is that scope will work on CO2, SSP and any PCP pistols and rifles and they should know that, I think maybe the sellers need an education and if the scope is that delicate the reviews would state that
take care
mike
If it isn't rated for an airgun then what exactly is it rated for? Only thing I could think of at that point would be a paper weight...
That being said I've had a few red dot sights that I bought for use on a pistol that were terrible since were designed more in mind for rifles where you had it much closer to your eye (the longer the eye relief got the more it wandered off of center).
