Is this a rifle or a pistol scope?
Fella ask me if I'm interested in it.
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Is this a rifle or a pistol scope?
Fella ask me if I'm interested in it.
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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 |