On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:40:50 GMT, "RAM³"
wrote:

Gunner wrote in
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On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:57:17 GMT, "RAM³"
wrote:

Gunner wrote in
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Nope..flat based

Flat on top only or flat on top and both sides?

Many airguns, today, are flat on top with a dovetail groove on each
side to take an airgun-style clamp-on scope/aimpoint/laser sight. (The
dovetail runs the length of the receiver instead of perpendicular to
the receiver.)

A short stop at a Wal-Mart will give you an idea of how these things
attach since they carry both airguns and airgun scopes/mounts.


Flat on top of the barrel. Im not a big fan of putting a optical
sight on top of something not firmly attached to the tube the
projectile comes out of.

Break action spring guns come to mind as one of the major cases.

That barrel gets even a bit wobbly, doesnt lock up to the receiver
each and every time the same way...that optical sight is worthless


And, yet, that's the normal attachment: the receiver instead of the
barrel.

That's why the grooving is on the receiver.

By using a standard mount, an airgun scope/aimpoint is easily mounted and
zeroed.

However, you might want to fabricate clamp-style mounts for a long-eye-
relief (pistol) scope by bending 4 strips of metal so that the spacing is
uniform, the bends match the OD of the scope barrel and the rifle barrel,
and use a machine screw/wingnut combination in the middle.

That'd be the simplest way to get a mount that would meet your stated
requirement.

Not a bad idea. Though Id machine a clamp mount rather than use sheet
metal

Gunner