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I've got a Spanish Mauser chambered in 7mm. It was sporterized when I bought it. In pretty shit condition, but I saved it. I reblued the barrel, refinished the stock, and it looks great. I bought it cheap and the rifling in the barrel is perfect. I didn't want to pay for the scope mount so I decided to mount it to the barrel. The stock is cut shorter so it would only be mounted a few inches forward from where the original mount would be. I just can't see spending 75 bucks on the mount. Is a 2-7x32 scope sufficient for 7mm? I think that is an average Mosin scope. Just making sure not to dump money on it and be wrong. The eye relief is the correct length. Just making sure that is right for that caliber.

I've got a Spanish Mauser chambered in 7mm. It was sporterized when I bought it. In pretty shit condition, but I saved it. I reblued the barrel, refinished the stock, and it looks great. I bought it cheap and the rifling in the barrel is perfect. I didn't want to pay for the scope mount so I decided to mount it to the barrel. The stock is cut shorter so it would only be mounted a few inches forward from where the original mount would be. I just can't see spending 75 bucks on the mount. Is a 2-7x32 scope sufficient for 7mm? I think that is an average Mosin scope. Just making sure not to dump money on it and be wrong. The eye relief is the correct length. Just making sure that is right for that caliber.

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To be honest buying a decent scope is worth the money. Especially one that holds zero when you move through the zoom settings and parallax setting.

Are you planning on hunting with it? If so what ranges will you be looking at?

After doing a little bit of research the 7x57mm or the Spanish Mauser looks to be a decent longer range rifle. From my understanding you can easily take game out past 500 yards with it. So from my experience 2x to 7x zoom is a bit too weak. I would go 12x or above, however this is my personal preference. There are people who use less powerful scopes and those who use more powerful scopes.

On my main hunting rifle chambered in .308 I use a vortex optics diamond back front focal plane scope. It's a 6-24x50. I hardly ever use the full zoom potential on that scope. The reason I purchased it is because it was an affordable front focal plane scope and I also prefer the image of a 50mm objective. It also performs really well in lower light plus the image is nice and crisp. However that scope could put you in for around $400 to $500 bucks..

I guess in all just do your research and talk to people. Don't rush into a scope because it can make or break the shooting experience especially at over a dollar a round.

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I may use it for hunting. I've got way better scopes for my other rifles. Like I just bought a 3-16x56 for my AR47 build I did. I'm not looking for too much magnification, mainly clarity when looking through it. I've got plenty of rifles with great scopes that stay zeroed. I know the importance of paying for a good scope. I only paid 175 for this rifle. I don't want to pay too much for the scope and it has to great at long eye relief due to where it is mounted. My HK91 has a great scope on its claw mount, my AR50 has a scope I paid more than I ever paid for a scope, my other rifles all have great scopes, but this one I can't dump money into considering what I paid for it. Mainly looking for some okay magnification and being able to accurately see it where it will be mounted on the barrel.

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Those are some nice tools you have there.

I know nikon and leuopold have some long eye relief scopes but they are pricey. I remember seeing somewhere that vortex had one for sub $200 that was in the 4 inch eye relief range. Not sure if you need a deeper eye relief or not.

That's a pretty sweet gun you have there and it sounds like it was well worth the $175

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Thanks. I have a few laying around. I make HK clones now and AKs as well as any type of ARs. Bought some jigs years ago for the flats and I mill out receivers.

Yeah I am in the range of 8-10 inch eye relief unfortunately I think.

Yeah it was. It was pretty ugly to begin with, but the rifling and everything was perfect. Very happy with it. Looks like a totally different rifle now. I got a great deal on it. I met a guy recently with some short italian carbinos and some 8mm rifles, but the ammo is too expensive for my taste. I have an 8mm already, but don't shoot it as it is.

I recently got into Unimags. They are ar platform mags that fit multiple calibers all the way up to 458 SOCOM. Pretty great. They run like 20 a piece, but still a good deal. I've got a lot now. They run nice in everything I've tried.