ChristopherG
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We had a beautiful morning here in typically stifling NC, and I was able to spend it at the range with my son and my Marlin 1894c .357 lever gun, which I LOOOVE. I love it to the extent that I'm buying it presents. Today was the first time I've shot it with its latest acquisition, a 2.5X28 IER 'Scout' scope by Leupold. It uses low Leupold Quick Release mounts and rides on an XS 'express' sights lever-scout mount.
The whole package is wonderful. The mount is rock steady and screwed on with no more 'smithing' than a bit of filing to make it into the rifle's dovetail mount. The scope--well, it's my first scope of any quality, and I can't stop picking the little carbine up to peer at the clarity and sharpness of the image. The forward mount is very quick, for me; on several strings of rapid fire, I could put multiple cans on the burm in the air--shooting one airborne, finding another, and popping it up before the first one landed. In quick fire like this, the scout scope is very instinctive, IM (obviously) LE.
Resting my elbows on a bench, and rushing just a bit (the son doesn't yet have a lot of patience for slowfire), I shot a tube of 9 XTP FPs (over a full load of 296) into a 2" group at 70 yards. I know it would do better from a full-on benched position, but I don't know why I'd bother. Well, bragging is why, of course--I just don't know whether I WILL bother.
Here she is with the scout scope:
The whole package is wonderful. The mount is rock steady and screwed on with no more 'smithing' than a bit of filing to make it into the rifle's dovetail mount. The scope--well, it's my first scope of any quality, and I can't stop picking the little carbine up to peer at the clarity and sharpness of the image. The forward mount is very quick, for me; on several strings of rapid fire, I could put multiple cans on the burm in the air--shooting one airborne, finding another, and popping it up before the first one landed. In quick fire like this, the scout scope is very instinctive, IM (obviously) LE.
Resting my elbows on a bench, and rushing just a bit (the son doesn't yet have a lot of patience for slowfire), I shot a tube of 9 XTP FPs (over a full load of 296) into a 2" group at 70 yards. I know it would do better from a full-on benched position, but I don't know why I'd bother. Well, bragging is why, of course--I just don't know whether I WILL bother.
Here she is with the scout scope: