Home Forums Hunting & Shooting AR and Tactical Rifles Carrying handle scopes?

What are the pros-cons of these?? All i seem to find is the inexpensive ones. Does anyone make a reasonably priced one that is readily available?

Buy the mount and rings and use any scope you want.

Ken, for my Bushmaster A2, I used an ARMS #2 carry handle mount, and their STANAG extra low rings. Perfect set up with the Weaver Classic Extreme 1.5-4.5X 30mm scope.

That I like....nice rig....!!

You might want to look at a cheekpiece if you go with a riflescope on the carry handle.

Mannlicher

Dood, very nice display�Like the rifle, like the pistol and very nice knife. And shy of a battle hardened military scope, one would have a very hard time faulting your choice in optics. You are a man who has excellent taste in firearms (and apparently knives).


Ken14,

Yours is a very open ended question, to which there can be any number of different answers. For a SHTF rifle, I think THE way to go on a carry handle is a co-witness mount for an Aimpoint CompM3. If you rifle is more general purpose vs. combat rifle, then a low power optic setup like Mannlicher has is hard to beat.

I shoot an ACOG that is already set up to mount on the carrying handle and allows you to co-witness the iron sights. It is not very reasonably priced, however.

Pros:
1.If you have carry handle rifle you can have optics cheaply
2. You dont need to remove fixed front site from rifle so scope does not look at it.

Cons:
1. Hard to get proper cheek weld because scope sits so much higher than stock was designed for.
2. The scope sits too high above bore and this means either your up close shots will be way off or your normal 100-200 yard zero will be way off. For example if you have a 100 yard zero on a carry handle rifle, you will have the scope between 3.5 and 4.0"s high above line of bore. In this case your impact at 25 yards will be around 3.5-4" low. If you zero'd for 25 yards you would then be 14-16" high at 100 yards.

The cons are big ones when used to defend yourself.

I've used the cheapest mounts out there for load testing. Its a 10 buck mount, one shot deal, release agent the inner handle and apply bedding compound to the bottom only of the mount... slip in and just put pressure on the bolt...

I've shot some serious groups at 600 this way.

Don't exactly know what you are after here, but IMHO unless its a SHTF battle type rifle then spending big bucks is paying for a name once again.