I'd really appreciate any photos, descriptions, comments, opinions on what optics/sights you have on your Marlin 1895. If possible, please include information such as why you chose what you have (what do you use the rifle for), do you like what you have, pros/cons etc. I'd like to mount a scope of some sort on my XLR and was thinking of a 1.5 - 5x or similar but soon realized that the scope (typical minimum eye relief of 3.6") would need to be pushed so far forward that it would be up against the forward-most ring using a standard base such as the Leupold quick release one-piece base. Another option is to use a scout scope with an eye relief of 9.3" mounted on an XS scout scope base but I'm not sure if this is a good solution. If there's a way to have both form AND function then that's the way I want to go.
Thanks.
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