Recommend me scope mounts

[markha 99]

Hi All,

I have just got a new scope - Hawke sidewinder tac 4.5-14 x 42 and need to get new mounts - 30mm.

 

These need to be fitted to a HW80. the rail length on the HW80 is around 135mm to the recoil pin hole so I could get 1 piece or 2 piece mounts.

 

The question is which mounts will work best and is it worth getting adjustable mounts?

 

Thanks in advance

Mark

[markha 99]

I had a look at those, maybe my question seemed a bit lame the way I typed it?

 

I suppose the question is: one piece or 2 piece mounts? Fixed or adjustable?

Who has bothered with adjustable mounts, so that the scope is centred before you have to start adjusting clicks for elevation and windage or do you guys just put fixed mounts and then put a heap of clicks on the elevation to zero and then use hold over/under on the reticle at different distances?

Cheers

Mark

[jay2k123 2]

i think one piece mounts are what you want for a springer.as for adjustable i just do that with my scope turrets,thats what they are for i spose

atb

John

[markha 99]

Well, I finally settled on a 1 piece Sportsmatch dampa mount - d70.

 

I fitted the mount and scope on Saturday with only one hiccup along the way:

 

Windage adjustment wasnt to far out from optical centre, However, I did run out of elevation adjustment! Remedy was "the old school way" of re-opticaly centering the cross hairs ie set them to the midpoint of adjustment, then used some old camera film negative cut in to the correct size to fit in the bottom of the scope mount, I ended up using 3 pieces stacked on top of each other to get the scope zeroed in with only a small amount of elevation adjustment needed.

 

Cheers for now

Mark