Is this a rifle or a pistol scope?
Fella ask me if I'm interested in it.
Is this a rifle or a pistol scope?
Fella ask me if I'm interested in it.
Hold it out and look through it. If you have to get it within three inches or so of your eye to get the view to fill the eyepiece, it's a rifle scope, i.e. standard eye relief; if you can keep the eyepiece filled out to almost arm's length, it's a long eye relief "pistol" scope (also useful for "scout scope" mounts like most of the Mosin Nagant after market mounts). There's also an "extended eye relief" that's in between; it'll go six or eight inches, but not full arm's length; those are for scout mounts on rifles shorter than a Mosin Nagant.
Hard to say without knowing the model number.... How far is the eye relief??? Odds are, if it's a long relief then it's a pistol scope... short relief would definitely be rifle....
just goin by the spacin' of th erings i'm guessin' rifle scope.
Based on the scope ring, I would say rifle scope. I don't think they make pistol bases that turn and lock into the base.
5.7 Man: You sure can buy "Redfield type" turn and lock bases for pistols. So the only way to be sure is to confirm model number or check eye relief. -Ed
Even at a 400x screen magnification, I can't quite make out the scope model stamped into the front/objective lens retention ring on the front of the scope.
It would for sure tell the tale.
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Now I lay me down to sleep
A gun beside me is what I keep
If I awake, and you're inside
The coroner's van is your next ride
id guess a 2x long eye relief pistol scope by the size of it. I dont recall a luepold rifle scope that small.
Ok I just found out from the fella it was a pistol scope and it has been given away already.
Tasco made rings and bases like that also.
It looks like the older M8 2X pistol scope to me.....dale
Looks like a pistol scope but just check the eye relief as stated, a Leupold rifle scope this size
will mx out at about 5 inches. If you have a full field out at 18" or so it's obviously a pistol scope.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |