Question on mounting of red dot/prism scopes?

**Buckshot** · 02-12-2012, 07:57 AM

Please bear with me a second and I’ll get to my question. Because of my vision in my shooting eye I pretty much need a scope for accurate shooting beyond 30-40 yards. Due to that, I have
a fair number of scoped rifles. I use the cross hair magnified types without glasses and make it a point of purchasing these with generous eye relief. On the red dot/prism type scopes,
with no magnifcation, I use my glasses with no problem. I always mount my magnified scopes fairly far to the rear of my guns as it seems to work the best for me (no glasses). I generally don’t go
as far back with the red dot/prism types using glasses). On many guns I see the red dot/prism scopes mounted pretty far up the receiver, even on the rifle barrel/upper handguard. I am wondering
if I am missing some-thing by mounting mine farther back. Is there is some advantage I am not aware of by putting them farther forward??? As long as the sight does not get fuzzy I could move
mine some, if I would gain something by doing it? Thanks for any answers you can give me on this!

**Evilblackgunsrfun** · 02-12-2012, 01:21 PM

With most red dots , just mount it were it works best or looks best to you or for you, or were the gun allows. So if the gun allows it, just position the red dot were you like it .
On some guns , people will center the red dot, more for looks or to balance the features out some, some guys will mount a red dot to the rear, allowing a magnifier to be mounted also.
And on some guns, far forward is about the onley place to mount one because of the ejection port placement. Or far to the rear for same reason.
My Mossberg 930 SPX would need to be mounted far to the rear because it has a short factory rail on the receiver .

**Buckshot** · 02-12-2012, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by Evilblackgunsrfun

With most red dots , just mount it were it works best or looks best to you or for you, or were the gun allows. So if the gun allows it, just position the red dot were you like it .
On some guns , people will center the red dot, more for looks or to balance the features out some, some guys will mount a red dot to the rear, allowing a magnifier to be mounted also.
And on some guns, far forward is about the onley place to mount one because of the ejection port placement. Or far to the rear for same reason.
My Mossberg 930 SPX would need to be mounted far to the rear because it has a short factory rail on the receiver .

Thanks, I was beginning to think it might have something to do with accuracy. If that was the case I definately wanted to do some corrections. I am happy where they are, so they will stay there!