Set your eye relief at highest power if it doesn't come close to 3 and 3 1/2 being a better number then find a new scope. No US manufacturer of scopes other then Euro scopes have a fixed eye relief. In practical terms it makes no difference I would rather have a scope with almost 5" of eye relief when dealing with a 338(leupold 2.5x8 VX-III) albeit it at low powers then a scope that has 3.5 to begin with and may go as low as 3.00 . I don't usually play with the power ring when putting an animal in the crosshairs I look at the animal first and dial the power range right there if it is going to be a long shot if not I usually have a variable set to middle range and keep it there. Why I don't use a 4x or 6x doesn't make any sense since those are the powers I usually use anyway. That effectively rules out the so-called loss of "CheekWeld" that is overused these days.