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Well, since the argument the sales critter made was: "a centerfire scope will be broken by the recoil on a .22", wouldn't the fact that a centerfire scope won't be broken on your unsually recoliing ar10, kinda hint that a centerfire scope just might be able to withstand the incredible stresses imposed by a .22 rifle?
Unless your ar10 is maybe modified to shoot .22?
Perhaps your salesman is dyslexic and heard that a rimfire/cheap scope might be trashed if you put it on a high powered centerfire, and just repeats the story backwards.
You kinda lost me there. I just read some bs about optics being damaged by forward recoil. Think about it for a minute, momentum and inertia. The scope is going to have stress both ways on "normally" recoiling rifles. It's a moot point anyways because you get what you pay for. As for the recoil of semi autos I guess you have never dropped an open bolt to battery huh? Rifle goes bang, recoil one. Bolts travels back and stops, recoil two. Bolt moves forward and slams in to battery, recoil 3. If you find that unusual I can recommend a test to help understand it, Garand owners may have inadvertently experienced this. Just stick you little finger in the ejection port with a open bolt and drop it. I think that will help to understand what is going on.