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Pistol Scope's, F.O.V v.s. Eye relief
- Thread starter coycat
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SD Handgunner
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Now that's a tough question. However I'll try my best to see if I can come up with something that makes sence.
First of all Field of View is much more critical in Handgun Scopes than it is in Rifle Scopes. The reason I state this is twofold. First of all Handgun Scopes have a much smaller field of view than do Rifle Scopes. Secondly with a Rifle Scope you have the Rifle Stock to direct / guide your eye to the center of the Scope for quicker sight alignment. Eye relief is also a concern.
I have tried many, many different Handgun Scopes over the years. I have long ago settled on Burris Handgun Scopes as offering me everything I want. I am currently using two different Variable Burris Handgun Scopes, and I think they are about the best out there, considering all of their features and what I use them for. These scopes are the Burris 2x7x32mm LER Handgun Scope, and the Burris 3x12x32mm LER Handgun Scope.
Let's start with the 2x7x32mm Burris LER. Burris lists this one as having a Field of View of 21 feet at 2x, and 7 feet at 7x at 100 yards. Burris also lists the Eye Relief as being from 11" to 21" at 2x, and from 10" to 14" at 7x. The eye relief does indeed become less at the higher magnifications, however the closest it can be to the eye at both low magnification and at high magnification is almost the same. This is also a nice compact scope that doesn't add a lot of weight or bulk to a Hunting Handgun.
Burris lists the Field of View for their 3x12x32mm LER Scope at 14 feet at 3x, and 4 feet at 12x. Yes at 12x this scope does indeed become tricky to use. The Eye Relief is listed as 10" to 19" a low magnification, and from 10" to 12.5" at high magnification. Again the closest it can be to the eye is the same at both ends of the magnification range.
I find that with both the 2x7x32mm Burris LER Handgun Scope and the 3x12x32mm Burris LER Handgun Scope they are quite easy to use up to about 6x. The eye relief seems to be adequate for my needs in either shooting from a bench or off of my crossed shooting sticks. However for real close in shooting they are always turned to their lowest settings.
Other than Burris Handgun Scopes, I have also had exerience with the 2x6x32mm Bushnell Trophy Handgun Scope. While I was quite impressed with the clairity of this scope, it was not at all user friendly (at least not like the 2x7x32mm Burris LER Handgun Scope). The Eye Relief on this Bushnell was quite long, and the depth of Eye Relief was quite short, in that there was not a lot of movement allowed between the closest to farthest it could be from the eye. The other thing I really didn't like abou this scope was the very small Field of View. In my tests I came to the conclusion that it has about one half the field of view that the 2x7x32mm Burris LER Handgun Scope has.
As to what I would recommend for a Handgun Scope, actually there are two choices, and I happen to use both of them. I have 3x12x32mm Burris LER Handgun Scopes on a couple different Contenders. One is on a Super 14 Match Grade .22 LR Contender Barrel that I use for Target Shooting, and the other is on a 15" 6mm T/CU Contender that I use for general varminting, calling coyotes and whitetail deer hunting. I have one 2x7x32mm Burris LER Handgun Scope. Depending on the time of the year this scope will either be on my Super 14 .223 Remington Contender for general varminting and or calling coyotes, or it will be on my Super 14 .30-30 Ackley Improved Contender during Whitetail Season.
Maybe someone else will have more experience with some other handgun scopes.
Larry
First of all Field of View is much more critical in Handgun Scopes than it is in Rifle Scopes. The reason I state this is twofold. First of all Handgun Scopes have a much smaller field of view than do Rifle Scopes. Secondly with a Rifle Scope you have the Rifle Stock to direct / guide your eye to the center of the Scope for quicker sight alignment. Eye relief is also a concern.
I have tried many, many different Handgun Scopes over the years. I have long ago settled on Burris Handgun Scopes as offering me everything I want. I am currently using two different Variable Burris Handgun Scopes, and I think they are about the best out there, considering all of their features and what I use them for. These scopes are the Burris 2x7x32mm LER Handgun Scope, and the Burris 3x12x32mm LER Handgun Scope.
Let's start with the 2x7x32mm Burris LER. Burris lists this one as having a Field of View of 21 feet at 2x, and 7 feet at 7x at 100 yards. Burris also lists the Eye Relief as being from 11" to 21" at 2x, and from 10" to 14" at 7x. The eye relief does indeed become less at the higher magnifications, however the closest it can be to the eye at both low magnification and at high magnification is almost the same. This is also a nice compact scope that doesn't add a lot of weight or bulk to a Hunting Handgun.
Burris lists the Field of View for their 3x12x32mm LER Scope at 14 feet at 3x, and 4 feet at 12x. Yes at 12x this scope does indeed become tricky to use. The Eye Relief is listed as 10" to 19" a low magnification, and from 10" to 12.5" at high magnification. Again the closest it can be to the eye is the same at both ends of the magnification range.
I find that with both the 2x7x32mm Burris LER Handgun Scope and the 3x12x32mm Burris LER Handgun Scope they are quite easy to use up to about 6x. The eye relief seems to be adequate for my needs in either shooting from a bench or off of my crossed shooting sticks. However for real close in shooting they are always turned to their lowest settings.
Other than Burris Handgun Scopes, I have also had exerience with the 2x6x32mm Bushnell Trophy Handgun Scope. While I was quite impressed with the clairity of this scope, it was not at all user friendly (at least not like the 2x7x32mm Burris LER Handgun Scope). The Eye Relief on this Bushnell was quite long, and the depth of Eye Relief was quite short, in that there was not a lot of movement allowed between the closest to farthest it could be from the eye. The other thing I really didn't like abou this scope was the very small Field of View. In my tests I came to the conclusion that it has about one half the field of view that the 2x7x32mm Burris LER Handgun Scope has.
As to what I would recommend for a Handgun Scope, actually there are two choices, and I happen to use both of them. I have 3x12x32mm Burris LER Handgun Scopes on a couple different Contenders. One is on a Super 14 Match Grade .22 LR Contender Barrel that I use for Target Shooting, and the other is on a 15" 6mm T/CU Contender that I use for general varminting, calling coyotes and whitetail deer hunting. I have one 2x7x32mm Burris LER Handgun Scope. Depending on the time of the year this scope will either be on my Super 14 .223 Remington Contender for general varminting and or calling coyotes, or it will be on my Super 14 .30-30 Ackley Improved Contender during Whitetail Season.
Maybe someone else will have more experience with some other handgun scopes.
Larry
Coycat, I would say field of view, usually when calling you don't have all day to pick up your target when they're getting close so a low power scope or no power red dot works great. If you need more magnification you usually have time to crank it up and get a different position.
I just started handgun hunting last year so I'm giving this advice with minimal experience it's just what I found when I tried it, sure is a lot of fun to kill a coyote on the run with a contender (killed 2 running in towards the call) but it sucks when you miss a bobcat standing still at 40 yards (go figure). I'm going to try it alot more this year.
I just started handgun hunting last year so I'm giving this advice with minimal experience it's just what I found when I tried it, sure is a lot of fun to kill a coyote on the run with a contender (killed 2 running in towards the call) but it sucks when you miss a bobcat standing still at 40 yards (go figure). I'm going to try it alot more this year.
SD Handgunner and TOM64, I greatly appreciate your input, I have a T/C Encore handgun on order in .223, I was looking at a Bushnell 3200 2x6 32mm, and I thought a constant 20" eye relief would be better. Then I got on the Burris website and found about the loss of F.O.V and had no clue what to do! The only pistol experiance I have is combat and tactical, so this is a whole different game for me. When I found about the loss of F.o.V, I knew somethin was up, I had a hard time findin other scopes with constant eye relief. Thank's