With the non takedown gun I guess you have to clean it from the muzzle and push stuff into the chamber. This I think is the only problem with the non takedown BLR. For me I only clean once a year but I want to clean from the breach end. So I would take it down, clean it, rezero it and put it away. The comments on the requirements for a short eye relief scope are well noted in that you could not mount a Leupold 2.5 x 8 far enough forward. I wonder if the Leupold 1.5 x 5 would work?