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I've evidently stepped in water that is deeper than my knowledge can tread so to speak...

I'm going to be mounting a Leupold VX-R 1-4x20mm scope (30mm tube) and the eye piece diameter is about 41mm or 1.60 inches. The objective is of course straight 30mm.

My goal is to achieve as close to the same cheek weld, as when the bird barrel is on the shotgun. The gun has a straight comb stock, no monte carlo rise or anything like that.

Is it possible to mount the scope far enough back, and low enough, that the eye piece diameter actually extends below the height of the cantilever rail? I'm tempted to buy some extra low rings, and mount it this way, so I don't have to add any sort of temporary cheek rest. Hate to go to the time and expense and be wrong however.

What say the experienced?

p.s. the gun is a Beretta 391 synthetic, with a "Beretta" aka Hastings cantilevered 12 ga rifled barrel. The scope has pretty generous eye relief, just wondering if all this has a good chance of working.

Esmith,

I'm running 1" Leupold medium rings on all 3 of my CL bbls, MC stock for two and straight for the other. The CL makes it way higher than your "bird" bbl obviously, but I really haven't had a hard time shooting the gun with a straight comb this way. Took some IA whitetails with it and never really felt a disadvantage with a looser cheek weld. The MC stocks definitely give you a more solid cheek weld with the the higher CL mount.

You may want to check into the cheek pads that wrap around the stock.

To answer your question, go as low as you can get away with clearance.