Scope Harm

[TAC]

Does it do anything wrong when the front optical of the scope is touching the barrel ? I forget the name of it but its where you dial up the distance. it's 50 mill and it's just touching it so that it makes it hard to dial ?
Thanks in advance.
TAC

 

[skypilot]

The scope should not touch or contact any part of firearm barrel. Objective lens or sunshade is the term you seek.

 

[galamb]

Think of it like this.

Every time you shoot the barrel "moves".

If your scope is physically in contact with the barrel, at it's extreme end it is potentially getting "tapped" each time you fire.

Now if someone asked you if it was advisable to take a small tack hammer and tap the end of your scope repeatedly, what would your answer be?

 

[Still alive]

Get a higher mount. You may find it actually helps your sight picture acquisition. You may already be too cramped shooting it as is.
Worse case is you may need a cheek riser on your rifle stock.

 

[TAC]

Thanks everyone. Thats pretty much the answer I had going into this. I just needed to hear from the experts.
TAC

 

[TheTooner]

Does it do anything wrong when the front optical of the scope is touching the barrel ? I forget the name of it but its where you dial up the distance. it's 50 mill and it's just touching it so that it makes it hard to dial ?
Thanks in advance.
TAC

The end at your eye is ocular. The other end is objective. An adjustable dial on the objective end would be Adjustable Objective (AO) which deals with the parallax changing depending on the range to the target you are looking at. The adjustment to change magnification is normally on a ring just in front of the ocular bell, though on some older scopes you may find the entire ocular bell rotates to adjust magnification.

You may find that moving the scope forward in the rings puts the objective bell out where it doesn't touch the barrel. That depends on the barrel's profile, and it may mean the distance between the ocular lens and your eye is too long which is another problem. You'll have to try it to find out. Large objective lenses, e.g. 50mm are fashionable because it's easy to persuade people that more is better, but it's not always an improvement worth the cost. Sometimes the extra performance just isn't needed and a person has to solve a problem like this one to get something that isn't doing them any good.