cayugad,

The eye relief is 3 or maybe 3.5 inches, I think. The original place I ordered it said 4.5 inches but Cabelas said 3". If you remember, I had put a simmons 3X9X30 (which was on my 22 mag) for a while. It has almost no relief and it would pop my glasses every now and then, even with 70 grains powder. The difference in quality is night and day and I shot 90 grains all day and never felt too close to the scope like I did with the Simmons (which is really a cheap .22 scope and not designed for use with a ML). Wish I had got the Bushnell scope sooner .