- Location
- Southern Vancouver Island
What scope would you all want on a sbl 45/70?
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One thing to note, my rifle did not come with the rail, I removed the rear sight and put it on. The leupold ultralight has 5" of eye relief, and the rail gets it just far enough ahead to take advantage of that over fixed rings.
- Location
- Calgary, AB
+1
A .45-70 lever is screaming out for a micro red dot. Still has the advantage of being able to carry with your hand wrapped around the reciever, has the advantage of reduced weight, and is still effective out farther than the .45-70 is on game. A micro red dot and an 1895G are like peas and carrots. I have a Burris FastFire on my 1895GS and 1894SBL and it makes about the nicest woods deer rifle you could ask for.
I played around with the Leupold scout and a few 20mm objective Leupolds too, but by far I prefer the FastFire.
And I've seen more than one high end rifle brand split a stock in a lead sled too... OF COURSE lead sleds are hard on rifles and optics. Physicis is unforgiving.
If you need to shoot it in a lead sled, you picked the wrong rifle for you, or you're doing it wrong. There's literally no excuse or reason to need one. All it is is a crutch that makes up for poor technique.
Ardent
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None would be my take, that’s a gun that’s utterly built for irons. 
With very little practice an average shooter will be completely competent at 200 yards with irons, well beyond the average .45-70s purview.
With very little practice an average shooter will be completely competent at 200 yards with irons, well beyond the average .45-70s purview.
- Location
- Southern Vancouver Island
None would be my take, that’s a gun that’s utterly built for irons.
Ye will change yer choice of sights when ye get north of 50 or so years on yer peepers.
None would be my take, that’s a gun that’s utterly built for irons.
Ye will change yer choice of sights when ye get north of 50 or so years on yer peepers.
Exactly.
I like irons but sadly they just don't like me that much anymore.......
- Location
- Calgary, AB
Ye will change yer choice of sights when ye get north of 50 or so years on yer peepers.
Yup, I can speak from experience.
I have the Leupold VX-3 1.5-5X20 scope on several rifles, including my No.1 .45/70... it is a great optic out to 200 yards. I just mounted one to my M77 Mark II SS Frontier .358 and it has been blooded twice in the past couple weeks... great little rifle and perfect scope paired to it.
fingers284
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- Location
- Alberta Cowboy Ranges
Well, I don't agree with all the low power variable recommendations...because I want to see clearly what I am shooting at and sometimes a low powered scope "just wont cut the mustard" when your trying to judge a trophy or just trying to find a suitable spot of ribs to hit thru a bunch of leaves/branch's and such...to put it bluntly, I want exceptional target awareness , not just "good enough"...to this point I always use at the minimum a 3-9 but usually its on of my 6-24's that get used on any rifle I will hunt with, especially the 45-70's I have.
Well, my opinions that's you shouldn't be judging your trophy with a rifle scope, nor should you be threading shots through brush at a distance that a 1-4 wouldn't "cut the mustard". I want a balanced rifle without the humble telescope mounted to it personally. You dislike 1-4 on a 45-70 yet feel a 6-24 is the way to? Are you trolling us?
