Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting Any love for the new NF SHV 4-14X50 F1??

I was disappointed in discovering the eye relief is so short. I did some measurements of my current scopes. The worst one I own is an older Burris 4-16. I once attempted to use it on a 7 Rem mag. On anything higher than 12X the eye relief was too short and it would often kiss my eye brow. It measures 3.25” of eye relief. That Burris is currently on a Ruger 10-22.

IMO short eye relief is only useful for 20 lb rifles with less than 10 ft/lb of recoil or a rimfire.

I called Nightforce and complained that the eye relief was too short. The guy talked down to me as if I had never fired a rifle. I told him it would hurt someone with a magnum. I said I intended to use it on a unbraked 8.5 lb 300 RUM.

DennisinAz and I want to challenge those engineers to put that F1 on Dennis's 340 weatherby. We bet they wouldn’t shoot it more than once because they would be taken to an ER for stitches.