Thread: Interesting Device I Saw in a Gun Rag...

Originally Posted by Anonymous D

One thing you arent thinking about though. Eye releif. The magnifier I have only has like 3-4 in of eye releif.

And plus if it has a 1.23 in eye peice, its gonna be awfully small when its 6-7 inches away from your face.

I doubt eyepiece size would be a real problem; most IER and LER scopes don't have eyepieces much bigger than that, and are often used with a lot more than 6-7 inches of eye relief. I have a rifle with an FX-II IER mounted with ~9" of eye relief, and it has a 1.4" eyepiece, and it's fine; most other "scout"-type setups are similar. Handgun scopes have like 18" or 20" of eye relief and usually have about the same eyepiece diameter. But it is true that magnifiers don't tend to have the eye relief to be mounted in front of the red-dot.

Crunker, aside from the eye relief issue, the main reason people don't mount the magnifier forward of the red-dot is that there's not much point. For the roles in which this type of optics setup might be used, a 1 MOA reticule is not going to meaningfully inhibit accuracy. We aren't talking about police sniper rifles here. If you want to shoot with high precision at long range, you'd be using a proper scope to begin with, rather than a red-dot and magnifier.