Post by Danny Creasy on Sept 15, 2013 20:16:44 GMT -6
I had wound up with an old Weaver 3-9 steel tube scope in a trade a few years ago, and it had been gathering dust almost ever since.
I have always found it challenging to scope the hogs backed stocked CZs. Two things - the big rear sight and the low comb. If you use high rings you end up with a chin weld instead of a cheek weld. You can remove the rear sight - unthinkable in my mind. You can use straight objective scopes or short scopes, and I have tried both in the past - so so.
I was looking at the old Weaver this week and realized how tapered the objective was and how long the tube was. Suddenly, I visualized the long blued steel scope resting in my unemployed pair of Redfield steel medium height tip off rings.
I went and retrieved one of my two CZ 452 Trainers and assembled the combo. The old scope has longish eye relief, so I had to slide it pretty far forward, and that was a good thing. The gently tapered bell cleared the rear sight by the thickness of a nickel, and the bolt handle at full lift just barely missed contact with the ocular. It resulted in a very comfortable offhand hold and cheek weld. I think it is a cool looking setup as well:
I felt that parallax was an issue, but I have read that the fixed parallax centerfire variables have less of an issue with this problem, when they are set on their lowest magnification. Great, I got tons of big magnification glassed .22s and had been wanting at least one low power scoped rimfire zeroed at 25 yards. I spun the power ring to 3X and headed to the range with a box of Remington Eley Target Rifle.
I bore sighted the rig on a Dirty Bird target set up at 25 yards and then proceeded to punch five into the group on the left, and then I lucked up (for once) and hit the nail on the head with my windage and elevation adjustments.
We'll give this a try for a while.
I have always found it challenging to scope the hogs backed stocked CZs. Two things - the big rear sight and the low comb. If you use high rings you end up with a chin weld instead of a cheek weld. You can remove the rear sight - unthinkable in my mind. You can use straight objective scopes or short scopes, and I have tried both in the past - so so.
I was looking at the old Weaver this week and realized how tapered the objective was and how long the tube was. Suddenly, I visualized the long blued steel scope resting in my unemployed pair of Redfield steel medium height tip off rings.
I went and retrieved one of my two CZ 452 Trainers and assembled the combo. The old scope has longish eye relief, so I had to slide it pretty far forward, and that was a good thing. The gently tapered bell cleared the rear sight by the thickness of a nickel, and the bolt handle at full lift just barely missed contact with the ocular. It resulted in a very comfortable offhand hold and cheek weld. I think it is a cool looking setup as well:
I felt that parallax was an issue, but I have read that the fixed parallax centerfire variables have less of an issue with this problem, when they are set on their lowest magnification. Great, I got tons of big magnification glassed .22s and had been wanting at least one low power scoped rimfire zeroed at 25 yards. I spun the power ring to 3X and headed to the range with a box of Remington Eley Target Rifle.
I bore sighted the rig on a Dirty Bird target set up at 25 yards and then proceeded to punch five into the group on the left, and then I lucked up (for once) and hit the nail on the head with my windage and elevation adjustments.
We'll give this a try for a while.
