What is more important on a spring gun, stop pin on the pic rail or a scope stop with a pin?
I have a Hatsan Torpedo 150 and I'm mounting a scope with the mounts I just got but I have a problem. I can mount the scope stop (which came with the gun) behind the Picatinny rail I've added and use a stop pin on the scope stop or I can use a stop pin on the Picatinny rail; the arrangement of the pin holes on the dovetail doesn't allow me to do both.
I can mount the scope stop forward of the rail without a pin in the scope stop while using a pin on the rail but I don't know if that would help the scope out at all in dealing with the initial impulse of the spring when it's released.
Anyone have any advice? What should I use, scope stop or the pin built into the Pic rail?
Posted Feb 17, 2020, 4:26 AM UTC
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So you’re adding a pic rail, to the dovetail, that has a stop pin of its own? If so, that’ll be enough. It’s generally best to keep the number of pieces between your gun and scope to a minimum, so adding a dovetail to picatinny adapter instead of dovetail rings isn’t ideal. But, it’s not the end of the world.
Thanks. The main reason I added a pic rail was that the dovetail-Weaver rail hybrid thing the rifle had put my scope too low to the iron sights, and I didn't want to dismount the irons because there was a tiny threaded thing cast on the rail for the elevation adjustment nob to work with that I was worried it might get broken off.
I tried dovetail scope rings, I tried the pic rings on their own and the scope would have to be mounted in an awkward way.
Hatsan's attempt at universal solution ended up giving no single good solution. I considered a single piece scope mount solution but I wasn't sure if it would let the scope clear the irons then I'd have to return stuff, but I had the pic rail adapter already on a different rifle and it would fit everything with the proper scope rings.