scope suggestions for 300 win mag?

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I recently purchased a Montana rifle company 300 win mag and put a Zeiss Terra 4-12 x 50mm on it.

It does not have the eye relief for clarity at 12x and I cant comfortably shoot it without being dreadfully close to getting a split eye.

I am looking for opinions on possible scopes with roughly 12-16x zoom to mount on it, that keep it clear and further from my face.

Thanks!
 
chadalac03 said:
I recently purchased a Montana rifle company 300 win mag and put a Zeiss Terra 4-12 x 50mm on it.

It does not have the eye relief for clarity at 12x and I cant comfortably shoot it without being dreadfully close to getting a split eye.

I am looking for opinions on possible scopes with roughly 12-16x zoom to mount on it, that keep it clear and further from my face.

Thanks!
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That's a very good scope and should have lots of eye relief.If you have 3 1/2 inches of eye relief at minimum power then at max you should be fine unless the focus for your eye is not correct or your hold is messed up.Some people do lean into a scope.Have someone take a picture of you in both max and min. settings just to check.If you go to more power the eye relief will be the same,it's an industry standard on better made scopes.
 
Nightforce has good eye relief but most of them are out of your average persons price range. My bushnell elite 6500 has decent eye relief and I have it on my sako 300 win mag. It's 2.5-16 I believe. Kahles also is supposed to have good eye relief
 
I will do the picture trick for sure, good idea. It must just be me because the scope is comfortable and see through it great but only up to 9x, after that, I find myself creeping close for clarity.
 
chadalac03 said:
I will do the picture trick for sure, good idea. It must just be me because the scope is comfortable and see through it great but only up to 9x, after that, I find myself creeping close for clarity.
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The higher the power you go on your scope the more deviation on the sight picture due to your movement.Keep the scope on a steady rest with you behind it.Then look at min power have someone measure your eye relief with a tape measure.Then do the same with max. power and you should be in the same position.May-be you are creeping up to get the cross hairs to stop moving around at max.It happens .I have a 3x9 x32 Leupold handgun scope with a 3 foot eye relief :runaway: if you want to try and catch cross-hairs on that thing, off hand at high power, be my guest.It (handgun scope) has to be on a rest to shoot accurately and I sit and rest it on my knees for that.Off hand quick shots I leave for my iron sighted 30-30 model 94.
 
4.5-14x Leupold. If you want a lot more scope (and a lot more weight) you could hunt down a used Nightforce 3.5-15x NXS. That will stretch your budget to the max but it is a helluva scope.
 
All I have on mine is a Leupold 4X M8 and I've shot moose, elk, bears and deer at varying distances with it.
 
No issues with my Sako m75ss 300WM or my good hunting buddy when we bought our rifles new back in 1997 with Leupold VAri-X III 3.5-10x40 . Close to 4" eye relief.

All my other rifles all have Leupold 40mm scopes.
 
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