I've been lurking on the forum for a while but finally decided to create an account and start posting because I've been really struggling trying to find a magnified prism scope that will fit on my Henry 44mag lever action with enough eye relief.
I'm mostly using it as a close-range (40-80yards) deer rifle and fun plinking gun in the off-season. I've got a 3-9x scope on right now and it works well, but I would love to put something smaller on there, both for fitting better in the gun safe as well as aesthetics.
I've thrown some crappy red dots on it before and didn't really like them. I really like magnification just for better target identification and, despite Lasik, they were super fuzzy (may be the low quality too). I grabbed a great deal on a Swampfox TriHawk 3x and I absolutely *loved* it the moment I took it out of the box....until I mounted it and couldn't see a thing.
Since then I've been down the rabbithole of reviews and Black Friday deals. I grabbed a couple to try and mount and return if I'm not satisfied (Vortex Sparc II and a Monstrum Ruckus 4(e) - don't judge me, they claim long eye relief and Amazon has easy returns).
All that said, does anyone have a proven magnified prism optic that has worked well on a the longer eye relief of a lever action? Preferably something in the more budget side. I'm not taking 200yard shots or anything and recoil is minimal on the 44mag, so budget version typically work just fine.
I'm mostly using it as a close-range (40-80yards) deer rifle and fun plinking gun in the off-season. I've got a 3-9x scope on right now and it works well, but I would love to put something smaller on there, both for fitting better in the gun safe as well as aesthetics.
I've thrown some crappy red dots on it before and didn't really like them. I really like magnification just for better target identification and, despite Lasik, they were super fuzzy (may be the low quality too). I grabbed a great deal on a Swampfox TriHawk 3x and I absolutely *loved* it the moment I took it out of the box....until I mounted it and couldn't see a thing.
Since then I've been down the rabbithole of reviews and Black Friday deals. I grabbed a couple to try and mount and return if I'm not satisfied (Vortex Sparc II and a Monstrum Ruckus 4(e) - don't judge me, they claim long eye relief and Amazon has easy returns).
All that said, does anyone have a proven magnified prism optic that has worked well on a the longer eye relief of a lever action? Preferably something in the more budget side. I'm not taking 200yard shots or anything and recoil is minimal on the 44mag, so budget version typically work just fine.
