Alright, Who's got a 44mm-50mm objective on their AR scope?

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As high as you have to stick it, may as well have a large objective, for light gathering, resolution, and large exit pupil. No point in completely wasting that space down to the handguard.

I realized this and so I put a 42mm Sightron, but there's still room to spare - I failed to take the concept to it's natural extreme - I could run with a 50mm objective and still have perfect (relatively low) line of sight (for an AR that is).

I don't mind a tad more weight, so now I'm thinking that the ideal for *me* for an all-purpose rifle would be something like a 1.5-6x50mm - that huge exit pupil is not wasted, contrary to popular belief - no your eye cannot use the whole exit pupil *at the same time*, but it does allow for more room for error left and right, and up and down, for quick sight acquisition slightly off-center. Sure that results in parallax error to an extent - BUT parallax is very small anyway when set on just 1.5, so you wouldn't be off by much at short ranges. So anyone make such a beast? (High quality 50mm obj. scope, with 1.5-6 or 1.5-5 or similar).
 
Nice scope! I want one. Which rifle is that?

I am asking more though, specific to AR15 types, where the buffer tube forces you to jack the scope up high anyway.
 
I don't have an AR-style rifle, but I do have a 3-9x50 scope on my Mossberg ATR-100 .30-06
 
I use a 4X12X50mm 30mm tube diameter scope on a flat top.
Have to look again but I believe the rings I used are Millett Medium height.
There is enough clearance, just barely enough, for a back up iron sight of which I have a Brownell mounted.
I don't use or need any sort of add on cheekpiece either.
 
sauce, i don't understand the question. could you restate it maybe?

what does the buffer tube have to do with how high you mount the scope?

why wouldn't the objective bell size determine how high you mount the scope?
 
I have Warne 'high' rings and a Nikon Monarch 5-20x44 mounted on my AR. The rings could be a touch higher but for a bench/squirrel gun it works really well.

I think Badger and a couple others make 'ultra high' rings, but I really like the quality/value of the Warnes.
 
Trijicon is about as close as you will find in such a low power scope - Trijicon ACOG TA55A Rifle Scope 5.5x 50mm. You asked so don't whine about the price.
 
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