Experiences with Big Bore and Puma Scope Mount Kit

[bigmedicine]

I have a 2 year old Puma in .454 - just love the thing and have even learned how to shoot with iron sights again! I opted for a Williams receiver sight and feel pretty comfortable shooting it.
One of the few legitimate gripes about the '92 action (when compared to a Marlin) is the lack of options for mounting a scope. I see that Legacy Arms/Puma is now marketing a scope mounting kit for the Puma. Has anyone retrofitted their Puma with this kit? I am especially interested for anyone that has put one on a .454 or .44 mag rifle. I have little doubt that a steady diet of moderate loads (i.e., non .454 or .44) would be fine for this - I just am wondering how it would hold up to some big stuff.
Thanks!

 

[MCgunner]

Aaaah, lever guns are NOT for scopes! I like my 92 as is. It's a .357. I did replace the joke of a rear sight with a ghost ring aperture. My son-in-law has a .45 colt version and has the Williams. It's FINE to 100 yards, pretty much the limit of any pistol cartridge. I don't see the need. My eyes ain't that good, bifocals and all, but I can keep 'em all into 3" at 100 yards off the bench and have taken a deer with mine at 80 yards. If I need optics, I have Remingtons and a Savage 110 with optics. The neat thing about my little Rossi is how handy the thing carries. It wouldn't be that handy with a scope on it. I often carry it for walk abouts, loaded with a magnum for hogs or loaded with .38s for squirrel and small game. That's the beauty of the gun to me. .454 now, that would blow a 300 pound hog into pork chops for you, LOL! Most hog hunting is done at quite close ranges, though an optic would be desirable if night hunting. I could see wanting that. But, then, my night hunting rifle is an SKS with a lighted reticule scope and spot like atop it, redneck's night vision.

Hell, I ain't sure why I answered this thread other than I love the 92s. I just sit around and look at mine, the lines, the finish, humming the theme song from "The Rifleman" all the while. LOL I shoot lefty, so I couldn't really use a scope on the gun, anyway. I'd think even right handed, it wouldn't come to the shoulder very well, not much of a cheek weld. I'd just keep the Williams on it, honestly.