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RE: Peep sight for and scope issues with, RWS 34?
« Reply #15 on: June 06, 2009, 03:53:51 PM »
I have the same gun circa 1990 with a RWS 350 4X32 scope and a one piece Accushot mount that I just mounted today and after about 10 shots to sight it in I've shot consistently without any scope movement and with surprising accuracy.
You might have problems with your scope mount sliding.

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Update: RE: Peep sight for and scope issues with, RWS 34?
« Reply #16 on: June 08, 2009, 11:23:20 AM »
The Superdomes are in and the scope is holding so far.  I messed around a bit with some Meisterkugeln and got things back on the paper, but they wander on me too much to make any real determination.  Today, after the domes showed up I put things to a better test.  After fine tuning the scope a bit I took 3 shots at the green 1" square (pic below) at 20 yards.  Then I shot 20 rounds into one of my personal achievement targets (scored 170 / 200, my second best target to date) also at 20 yards.  And finally took 2 last shots at the 1" green square again.  Everything is working great so far.  

If it continues to hold, I won't need a peep sight except for fun.  If it doesn't hold I'm coming back to this thread to decide which of the many options y'all have presented that works for me.  Thanks everyone.
RWS Diana 34, 0.177

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RE: Update: RE: Peep sight for and scope issues with, RWS 34?
« Reply #17 on: June 11, 2009, 12:08:53 AM »
The Staple Arc failed yesterday.  Got a couple hundred shots through it before it slipped out of place, but slip it did.  I'm going to continue to try and not spend any money trying to get this mess to stabilize, even though I can probably save myself the headache and just get a better scope and mount, I'm not beaten yet.

When I took the scope and mount off the rail I noticed a little something something.  On the underside of the mount, where it meets the rail, were some scratches caused by the mount moving over the ridges in the rail.  Ok, that's not news.  What is news is how small an area was actually scratched up.  Two tiny little sections about a mm wide and a cm in length right near where the hex screws that hold the mount to the rail.  If only those two small areas are scratched up due to scope shift, then only those two small areas were actually gripping the base.  The other 98% of the surface area of the mount is unmarked, and couldn't have been snug to the base or it would also be all scratched up.  

So, plan B is now in effect: Increase the surface area of contact, the friction, between the mount and rail.  Attempt B-1 is just a simple piece of friction tape applied to the whole length of the underside of the mount.  I cut a small hole in the tape to allow the stop pin to come through and find it's home in the stop hole on the rail.  It felt very snug during re-assembly, but I have not done any test shooting with this method yet, but, in theory, it *should* work for a little while anyway.  

- Mark

p.s.  Almost picked up a CenterPoint at Wally World the other day.  Would probably be posting targets in the target gate by now if I had.  Grrrrr.
RWS Diana 34, 0.177