I've been told that some regular scopes don't work well with rimfires, and can even be damaged, because the recoil is "different". I'd like to put my 25 year old Leupold 3-9 scope on my Savage 17HMR heavy barrel, but I'm a bit worried about it.
Any opinions on this?
Ummmm, not quite.
What "doesn't work" is the parallax on centrefire scopes is set at around 150 yards, unless of course the scope has an adjustable objective.
Rimfire scopes are set at a much closer range.
http://www.6mmbr.com/parallax.html
The recoil of a rimfire does nothing to a scope, the person may have confused the rimfire with an air rifle. Magnum spring air rifles will pound most scopes to pieces because they DO have a "different" (two direction) recoil.
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