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Almost 40 years ago-Gawd i'm getting old!!- i had a '94 winchester .30-30. East Texas gunsmith mounted a 1.3x Bushnell Phantom scope for me. This mount allowed scope to be at very end of the barrel-less an inch or so. Yes, i could still see the crosshairs! Does anyone remember such a mount-clamped around barrel and magazine tube- and who made it?? Thanks.. SM

SM,

I remember a number of low power long eye relief scopes that mounted ahead of the receiver, usually using the rear sight dovetail, from that era. Leupold offered it in their Detacho-Mount series, as did Bushnell with the Phantom. I've never seen one (1) mounted that far forward, that I can recall. I would seem to be a location just begging to be bumped out of zero.

Sincerely,

Bearrr264

Forty years and holding here........

the Phantom mount was from Bushnell, but that's about all I remember.

I did not think it was that far out on the barrel though. My recollection is that it used the rear sight dovetail, however I never owned one personally.

Ted