Scout Scope Question

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Something not available to Col. Cooper when he started promoting the scout rifle concept was the intermediate eye relied (IER) scope. E.g., this Leupold VX-2 1-4x on my Ruger GSR:

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It's mounted on the factory rail in low Warne QD rings.

I like this setup because it allows the scope to be mounted very low, avoids any chance of me getting scope eye, and it's far enough forward that it doesn't interfere with rapid bolt manipulation. It's also not as vulnerable to glare on the ocular lens as long eye relief scout scopes.

The IER scope as shown on my Ruger would prevent loading from stripper clips, but AFAIC that's moot with the rifle's use of detachable magazines.

Anyway, it's another option for folks to consider.

Hello Dave, do you have to be careful to find the view through your VX 2 1-4x IER at the highest magnifications? Does the eye relief get short or become, as some call it, critical eye relief at the 4x? I ask because the FX2x28 has almost endless eye relief. I can see through the scope from behind the stock or with my eye up to the iron sight ring.

 

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Such discussions about "Scout" anything soon become mired down in what JC would have thought about it.

I like my new Vortex Crossfire 2X7 LER scope on my Savage M10 "Scout" and I just removed a 1X4 Nikon African S(tandard)E(ye)R(elief) from my Marlin SBL Guide Gun and mounted a Burris 2.75X LER scope. Prefer leaving the "Scout" adjective off and just calling similar rifles multi-purpose and the optics LER or IER so as not to invoke the ghost of JC to frown upon my efforts at deciding for myself what I like or do not like.

I have not noted any light reflections that interfere with the use of either scope or rifle.

3C

3Crows. I tried to create a problem reflection. I used a floor lamp with a 75 watt bulb and a directional shade. I turned the shade and directed the light over my shoulder and onto the eye piece lens as I sighted targets indoors. The inside of the shade was a bright white, the bulb was a little more than a foot away from the lens, and all I got were too tiny white dots that posed no reflection problem for target finding.