In general, an Airgun Rated scope is a scope capable of handling a Spring Piston or Gas-Strut Airgun's "unique" recoil. Most standard scopes are mainly reinforced to a rearward recoil of firearms. Recoiling Spring and Gas-strut airguns jolts in both direction and a scope is necessary to be braced to handle that.
Additionally, it is always advisable to maximize precision of shooting airguns is to get a scope that has parallax adjustments within airgun shooting distances...Often as little as 5 yards! But many are happy with airgun scopes that can focus parallax free at 10 yards.
PCP, Pump-up Pneumatics, and Co2 airguns are not required to have "Airgun Rated" scopes as they produce virtually no recoil. BUT it would be nice to find a scope that does parallax focus down to short distances.
This message has been edited by varmintgetter on Aug 23, 2008 12:10 AM
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