Pistol Vs. Scout Scope???

[Duelist]

I am setting up 2 Scout Rifles...one, a Mauser 98, the other a Garand. I am looking for 2 long-eye-relief scopes to mount on these rifles. What is the difference between so-called scout rifle scopes, and pistol scopes? I have seen the Burris and Leupold scopes, but they are fixed power. I am looking into a Nikon in 2-8x power, but i was wondering if there were any problems in mounting a pistol scope instead of a "scout scope."

 

[Funderb]

It should probably be fine, they are generally regarded as one and the same scope, but I could be wrong.

 

[tube_ee]

If my Bushnell Trophy 2-6x32

is any indication, you will run out of eye relief at higher magnifications. On the military stock on my M44 Mosin-Nagant, around 4x is about all I can use.

6x requires a really strange cheek weld.

Other than that issue (which isn't really an issue, as all of the true scout scopes are fixed power), the pistol scope seems to be working well.

And remember that eye relief is dependent on the rifle, the mount, the rings, and the scope that you're using. I can say that the Bushnell Trophy handgun 2-6x32, on a Darrell's mount on an M-44 runs out of eye relief before it runs out of zoom. Once I put it in an ATI stock, and perhaps use offset rings, it may well be fine. Your rifle, mount, and scope will tell you the truth.

--Shannon

 

[Sam1911]

I've got a Marlin 336 set up in the "Scout" configuration and I used a 1.25-4x28 (IIRC) pistol scope on it.

The eye relief is so long with that scope that it has to be mounted as far forward as possible and I have to keep my head waaaay back on the stock or I get the "tunnel vision" effect. (Oddly -- I shopped around for the scope with the SHORTEST advertised eye relief!)

With it that far forward, field of view is pretty small, and if I creep up on it, it goes black.

Sure wish I'd bought a "real" scout scope or any with a true "intermediate" eye relief. I was hoping for something that would work well at around 6"-8" from my eye. The one I ended up with has to be at least twice that far away to be usable at all.

For what it's worth...

-Sam

 

[hksw]

Generally speaking, the Scout scopes have slightly shorter eye relief, though for vaiables, the pistol and Scout scope ranges will overlap most of the time from most makers. I've got a Leupold M8 pistol scope as a Scout scope on my Chinese SKS. Works fine.

 

[Duelist]

In that case, does anybody make a variable power scout scope?

 

[hksw]

To clarify, when I said va(r)iables, I meant handgun scopes. The minimum eye relief of my Vari-X III 2.5-8X32 Leupold (on a different gun) is about a little less than the maximum eye relief of most of the fixed powered Scouts out there. I think, though, that you want to keep magnification down for Scout purposes.

Leatherwood makes a variable Scout, though. Burris use to make a scope with that specification. NcStar also makes one but you better read up on their products first before buying.