Eye relief issues with Elcan Specter 4X

I’ve been using Elcan’s for over 20yrs. They have fantastic glass but the eye relief is short. I mount mine so far back that a backup sight is a no go but the scope has never let me down. Putting in any kind of extended latch will solve your problem and doesn’t have to be expensive. Badger Ordnance Tac Latch is perfectly serviceable and around $25 or so.

Collapsing the stock and messing up your length of pull is not the direction I would go. Follow GTs advice.
 
lawn gnome said:
If Elcan says 2.5 inch of eye relief, I'ld have to say, take it with a gain of salt.
Half that might be closer to normal.
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Yessir.

I had moved to the OS4X from the TA31 because I wanted more eye relief. It was disappointing.

Turned out to be pretty much the same sight at twice the weight, IMO
 
Well… thanks to commitments combined with our restrictive gun laws, I've yet to be able to get the scope and rifle out to the range to test this, but working indoors I think I've worked out a setup that I can live with and still allows easy, or at least acceptable operation of the charging handle. Range testing will be required but I think for sure I'll be buying a more tacticool one. The thing is that after using a PRO for so long, I've gotten used to a ridiculous length of eye relief, one that would never let me use the backup sights, not a good thing surely (you see kids, me being middle aged, the further away I got the red dot the better I could resolve it to sharpness).

Speaking of the backup sight, I still don't have room for it behind the Elcan and never will, so I'm just going to park it forward of the scope. If the zombies attack and they eat my scope, at least it'll be there on the rifle and not in my tool kit somewhere.

Looking forward to actually using the scope, it is a darn high quality optic and I'm fairly skilled in judging that kind of thing.
 
Big Bad said:
Mounting the above optic on my AR this morning, I find that to get workable eye relief I have to position the scope so close to the end of the rail that it interferes with easy operation of the standard charging handle. Just wondering if I have to live with this or what the possible solutions are? I suppose an oversized handle is one obvious solution, if so what is available in Canada?
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Think a cat like you would know that's how they are, stick your nose on your charging handle .

Stick your booger infested nose right on the charging handle same spot every time = hits with any combat optic
 
Speaking of too easy, I'm considering going full tacticool and mounting a tiny red dot sight on top of the Elcan. Any recommendations? I'm looking for really tiny. Compatible mount wanted of course.
 
Big Bad said:
Speaking of too easy, I'm considering going full tacticool and mounting a tiny red dot sight on top of the Elcan. Any recommendations? I'm looking for really tiny. Compatible mount wanted of course.
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I have experienced with mounting both RMR and Doc optic on both ACOG and Elcan. Personally I think it is a "must" to mount a RMR/Doc optic on top of a 4X day sight. RMR mounting plate is now available for Elcan Specter, so there is not a reason to go Doctor Optic.

You have to think of the RMR as your primary sight, and the Spectre 4X is your second sight. You will have to train yourself around the RMR and only "slip" down to the 4X when it is called for, such as making 100m + shot or getting into some weird positions like spline prone.
 
greentips said:
I have experienced with mounting both RMR and Doc optic on both ACOG and Elcan. Personally I think it is a "must" to mount a RMR/Doc optic on top of a 4X day sight. RMR mounting plate is now available for Elcan Specter, so there is not a reason to go Doctor Optic.

You have to think of the RMR as your primary sight, and the Spectre 4X is your second sight. You will have to train yourself around the RMR and only "slip" down to the 4X when it is called for, such as making 100m + shot or getting into some weird positions like spline prone.
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Thanks GT.
 
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