Originally Posted by
rafsob
I have no idea who you need to tell you empirically on this matter, but these scope companies have spent a lot of time and money doing research on this subject. And let me say again, it is not "RECOIL!" that will damage a scope. It is vibrations, harmonics, or a level of resonances in the action and barrel that cause the damage. Recoil has nothing to do with it.
Now I had two good rifle scopes go Tango Uniform on me and I don't need a hit on the head when one of the companies that repairs my scope tell me not to put it on a ML again!!! I think he was telling me this for a reason.
Each rifle of any kind has its own harmonic signature. I have yet to have anyone be able to tell me (including a scope company) how ML differ from centerfire, and how they design a scope differently to account for this. I've had companies tell me different stories on the same question before depending who answers the phone, so I don't place too much stock in that without a better explanation.
I'm sorry you've had bad luck with centerfire scopes on MLs. However all but one scope I've ever put on a ML was designed for centerfires and the only one that went Tango Uniform on ME was the ML scope!! A relative of a friend still hunting with my old Traditions Lightning from about 2000 with the $60 Bushnell centerfire scope I put on it and it's still running strong. I know plenty of guys who use centerfire scopes and don't see them going out at all. If they were not capable I would think I'd see them going out with more regularity.
If you have doubts in a centerfire scope on a ML then by all means stay away from them, the last thing you need in the field is doubt in your equipment. But I've had no reason to develop such doubt and nobody makes ML scopes with the features I need so I'll continue to use centerfire scopes.
I promise that if the start going out on me I will come back here and public eat crow for you
