A quality airgun scope is sometimes the key to a successful day at the range or in the field. Airgun scopes bring distant targets and surrounding objects up close and personal allowing safer, more accurate shooting. They gather and utilize available light making it possible to shoot in lower light conditions and allowing the hunter to hunt from dawn to dusk.

If you are new to airguns here are some tips about putting a scope on your airgun. The type of scope you use on your airgun will depend on what type of airgun you have and how you are going to use it.

There are 4 basic types of airguns.
1. Pneumatic pump
2. Pre-charged pneumatic
3. CO2
4. High powered spring airgun with break barrel or lever cocking.

The first three types of airgun could use a 22 rim fire rifle scope but the high powered spring guns will ruin even the most expensive high powered rifle scopes that were not built for airguns. High powered spring guns have a forward and reverse recoil that most scopes were not designed to handle. So if you have or will be getting a high powered spring gun you need to get a scope that was built for the forward and reverse recoil of a high powered spring gun.

One other factor to consider is most centerfire rifle scopes are parallax free at 100 yards, most airguns are never sighted in for over 50 yards, usually even less distance so if you have a regular rifle scope it will be out of parallux if you use it on an airgun. Lower priced airgun scopes and 22 rimfire scopes are usually parallax free at 50 yards while more expensive airgun scopes have adjustable parallux, called adjustable objective, A/O for short. and can be focused down to 10 yards or less.

Your best bet is to spend a little extra money for an airgun scope that is built for the double recoil of a high powered spring gun and has an ajustable objective even if you don't have a high powered spring gun now, you might get one in the future.