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Picked up a Marlin 45-70 and am pushing 405 grainers as a dark timber elk rifle. It does well off the bench with nice bright targets, but given old eyes, I'm toying with rigging it up with a Leupold FX-II 2.5x28. Supposed to have plenty of eye relief, like 9 or 10 inches. I don't want a scope interfering at all with hammer manipulations.
Anyone here configured one thusly? If so, do you find handling and performance adequate? 1Minute
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I put a 2.75 Burris Scout scope on 450 Marlin guide gun. I did find that with the Burris I was just barely able to get the scope close enough, but I did get it done. Mounted on the Ashly scope mount left the rear reciever holes free to mount a Wild West Guns ghost ring/peep sight. As a whole it came out pretty good, and comes up quick.
On another rifle a 450 Marlin MR (22" barel), I put a standard Leupold M8 4x scope mounted in Talley's quick release rings and bases. Putting the scope all the way back on the reciever doesn't hinder the hammer action at all.
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Greyghost: Thanks for the response. The FX-II 2.5x28 Leupold is advertised as having 9 or 10 inches of eye relief, so should work with ease. I love the lines of the lever actions and can't bear the thought of putting a side-wing on a hammer to accmodate function beneath a conventional scope. Think I will start ordering up stuff this evening. Thanks again. 1Minute
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I highly recommend a red dot Aimpoint. I use a vintage Aimpoint 5000 on my 1895 45-70 and it is a perfect match.
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OrangOkie: There's been some time pass since this initially went up. This is what it looks like, and it's a great shooter too. I could work the hammer with boxing gloves on.
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Nice set up you have there 1minute! Yours looks even nicer than most scout set-ups that I have seen. I think its cause the scope sits a little further back than most
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