bigcountry

Is Leupold the only one making the IER scopes with 9.3" of eye relief for the ruger forward mounted scopes and other guns? What is a guy to put on a forward mounted scope mount like on a 1895 Marlin? Wonder if a handguns scope would work? Anybody look thru one?

mossy33oak

I was at my gunsmiths the other day, and he had an 1895 in 45/70 he was working on, it had a Bushnell on it (forward mounted) the only thing I didnt like about it was the reticle, it had the old style sniper crosshairs, you know right, left, and bottom were real heavy.

Roskoe

Generally, handgun scopes are designed for about twice as much eye relief as the IER "Scout Rifle" scopes. You might consider some of those higher end red dot sights - eye relief is non critical and its amazing how well they shoot with no magnification. I once stuck an Aimpoint with a 3 MOA dot on a Ruger 10-22. It shot about 1.2" at 50 yards. I later put a 12X leupold on it just to see what it's true potential was - shot about 1.1" at 50 yards.

mossy33oak

Im sure that would work, but I always have a fear about using a scope that relies on batteries......you see I have that murphy's law luck, and sure as s%&t my batteries would fail right when I needed them

Roskoe

True . . . . but some of the new ones don't have batteries - like the Meprolight 21 or the Trijicon Reflex. Nor do they have or need intensity adjustment. Always on and adjusted. Might look kinda odd on a Marlin 1895, though.