beachmaster Posted February 5, 2015 Report Posted February 5, 2015 I need an enabler, and I am hoping that I have come to the right place ;-) Here is what I am looking for, and what i can spend. I am looking for a lightweight, small scope, that i can fit over or around my rear iron, that is made in America. My budget is about $600, and with my military paperwork, I can get like %40 off with leupold. I was looking hard at their vxr 1.25-4x scopes with a 7.62 150 grain bdc, but I read a review saying that if you want proper eye relief and height, to forget about a rear sight. Irons are a MUST. The rifle will basically be a heavy carbine, meant for 300 yards. 500 if I have to push it. I did 500 with an acog kinda with 556, so I think that if i practice, this should be realistic. (I know that i should be able to bang a moving target at 500 with irons... but ill be honest with myself and yall, I cant) So there you go. Ask questions, critique, criticize, but most importantly, ENABLE me! Lol
Matt.Cross Posted February 5, 2015 Report Posted February 5, 2015 An enabler, HERE??? Are you crazy? You've got a better chance of involvement in a snowball fight in hell.... LMAO
98Z5V Posted February 5, 2015 Report Posted February 5, 2015 (edited) I feel I can be of assitance here... <lmao> beach, you already shot it. You know what you need. Mark AR Mod 1 is the scope, in the magnification you stated. Leupold Custom Shop will make the 7.62 turret for you. Comes in at much less than $600, even full retail. Done. <laughs> Edited February 5, 2015 by 98Z5V
beachmaster Posted February 5, 2015 Author Report Posted February 5, 2015 (edited) Well you able to have your rear iron sight with it? I cant remember. I read some review that said to forget about it, it didn't work. Maybe with a different qd scope mount I could make it work? Btw, your skills on this forum are impeccable... did you crop that picture to go perfectly into this page like that? Its awesome. Edited February 5, 2015 by beachmaster
Robocop1051 Posted February 5, 2015 Report Posted February 5, 2015 I was going to suggest the same scope. It's a great piece. Using MBUS sights and a scope is wonky at best. The clearance comes more from the the mount than the scope. There are QD scope mounts will give enough room to collapse a rear sight under the scope. If you go with offset sights, you have a lot more mount options.
beachmaster Posted February 5, 2015 Author Report Posted February 5, 2015 I'm not too into the offset sights to be honest. I need to think about whether or not putting a skyrise under a scope to clear my sights would be worth it, and whether I would need some sort of cheek rest to make it work for me... if only I had all of these parts in hand lol
beachmaster Posted February 5, 2015 Author Report Posted February 5, 2015 98, I should have taken advantage of shooting your setup when I had it in hand!
98Z5V Posted February 6, 2015 Report Posted February 6, 2015 (edited) That's easy - when you coming back? <lmao> One the 300BLK, I don't have the rear sight on there - that rifle isn't really "finished" yet. The rear sight will clear easily, though, with the size of that scope. Running irons through a scope is a PITA, unless it's a true 1x on low power. It's rough on 1.5x power. At 3x power, your frint sight isn't even visible in the lens - the scope is already focused beyond where that front sight is mounted. On some scopes, it's even less than 3x that you lose visibility of the front sight. On anything I have that has irons and magnified optics, the optics have QD mounts. If I need the optic out of the way, I probably need it out of the way quickly and easily. I have some QD one-piece mounts, but if I'm using rings, it's only the Warne Maxima steel QD rings. <thumbsup> EDIT - I intentionally selected that picture of the scope, in order to be a more effective enabler... :banana: Edited February 6, 2015 by 98Z5V
Zebra644 Posted February 6, 2015 Report Posted February 6, 2015 (edited) And Ive got an NIB ADM 30mm QD mount that would look real nice in for sale >:D Edited February 6, 2015 by Zebra644
beachmaster Posted February 7, 2015 Author Report Posted February 7, 2015 I am not too worried about co witnessing with the scope. If I can mount the scope right on top of the rear iron and still have it as low as i want it, that's fine. I plan on running a qd mount like you said. I cant wait for this tax return... :-D
Zebra644 Posted February 7, 2015 Report Posted February 7, 2015 My ADM is for sale, i'm running a 34mm tube on my Steiner so don't have a need for a 30mm mount pm me if your interested, its sitting in the safe in the original packaging.
beachmaster Posted March 4, 2015 Author Report Posted March 4, 2015 Albright, so a little update. 98, your mk- ar is awesome, but we can see above, I was offered a deal on an adm mount that I couldn't pass up.... but it is 30mm as opposed to 1". So the mk-Ar wasn't an option. So, using the leupold military discount, I just picked up the Vx-R Patrol 1.25-4 Hey, buy once cry once right? This might be a cheap scope to some of the heavy hitters here, but it will be my first quality scope. Can't wait to post pics!
98Z5V Posted March 4, 2015 Report Posted March 4, 2015 That is a damn good scope, brother! Congrats! Now, when are you bringing it back out here?... <lmao>
beachmaster Posted March 4, 2015 Author Report Posted March 4, 2015 It would be nice to bring it out this summer! Idk how realistic that is though... we will have to wait and see. :-)
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