pistol scope on a rifle?

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Normb263

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I have a winchester model 75 target rifle with the lyman peep target sights. Real good paper shooter. It has the thin bases on the barrel for a scope,but it needs one of those yard long Unertl or Lyman "antique" scopes to work properly. I would rather not drill for new bases and a modern scope. Does anyone know what long eye relief pistol scope would doo the job? Thanks for the help if you can.
 
It depends on how far the rings would place the scope's eyepiece from your eye. I'm sure you could make that work, there are a lot of handguns scopes that might work depending on the eye relief distance required.



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handgun scopes are generally for arm length distance. If that distance, about 30 inches, matches your rifle mount, the no problem. I have a Pride Fowler scope for my .44 magnum.

http://www.rapidreticle.com/44mag.htm

I've tried it on my Marlin 1894 lever gun and it really was too close to be useful.

I bought "scout scope" which has greater eye relief.

http://www.chuckhawks.com/scout_scopes.htm

You might also search out "Shotgun scopes" such as:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas-2.shtml


Good luck, but yes scopes with a little to a lot more eye relief exist. You just need to measure the distance you need and search for a match.
 
My thoughts:

My understanding is that scout scopes have a medium relief.
Scout scopes are generally around 3x and made for quick target acquisition.
A scout scope may fit your rifle relief better but you will likely be limited by the power.

A pistol scopes have a longer eye relief and would have to be placed pretty far forward on the rifle to work, maybe too far forward for you rifle.

You also might want to investigate the scopes' parallax. I believe (but am not sure) pistol scopes are set for 50 yrds, while rifle and scout scopes are set for further distances.

I don't know much about shotgun scopes, so I can't help you much on them.

I'm also not sure about the construction of scopes. Are shotgun, rifle and pistol scopes constructed differently to handle the different types of recoil (i.e. is a pistol scope constructed to handle rifle recoil characteristics?)

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Pistol Scope On A Rifle

This will considering EYE RELIEF and the scopes MOUNTING rings.
I guess it would be possible to re-drill and re-tap the gun for long eye relief, if needed.
 
I have a 1995 japanese Nikon 2x pistol scope on a rifle perfect eye relief around in the 11-13" range and a Burris 2x7 pistolscope that also that falls in the same eye relief range altho they both work at arms length on a pistol. Had a Smith and Wesson(possibly Hakko) branded 2x that was also perfect at those distances but totally blew it out in the first week and there was no repairing it regardless of the lifetime warranty. Tried a Burris 2x also perfect.
I wouldn't buy one without looking thru it at your mounting distance regardless of published specs, Leupolds and Bushnells I've looked thru were a total no-go, with way too much eye relief. Pay attention to the parallax spec.
 
Thanks Gents! the gun itself has thin bases set up for one of the long Unertl or Lyman scopes of that era {1950's} the eye relief probably needs to be 6 " thats the normal distance my eye would be to the first base. The second base is some 7+ down the barrel from the first. Trying to avoid drilling and tapping if I can. I'll have to find out if scout scopes have a tube thats at least 8-9" long . Thanks again for your input
 
I don't have any of these but from my observations Leupold scout scope is the one to get. Burris also makes one.
 
Probably not as helpful as others, but my friend has a cheap NcStar on his Mosin and it works... at least until 20 shots in when he has to re-zero his scope again.
 
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