Originally Posted by
sevin8nin
The Mark AR 1.5-3, while not the best scope on the market, does actually have pretty decent eye relief. I suspect that "eye relief" is not your problem, but rather "eye box" which is a function of the exit pupil. Typically speaking, the lower the number on the magnification the better the exit pupil will be....as a guide. For most 1-4 optics I don't even look for what their light transmission is or exit pupil. I'm curious about quoted eye relief, field of view, and glass quality. The scope you fired, on 1x has an eye relief of 4.10", and 3.70" on 4x. That's pretty good.
Really, instead of shopping for another scope, you'd be better off spending more time with this one and working on your form. Especially since you mentioned that you're now shooting left handed, and haven't touched a scope in years, it sounds like you're starting from scratch.
I took a friend out shooting this year that had literally never touched a gun, and watching him trying to get situated behind my scoped AR was very illuminating. He didn't know where to put the stock, couldn't get a cheekweld, kept dealing with scope shadow because he wasn't staying in the eye box etc. But when I sat in the same spot behind the same gun, with the same over the ear protection, I could drill round after round in to the steel gong without losing my cheek weld. Same stuff, different shooter. Now, ask me to do that left handed and yeah, it's not as straight forward for me, but I practice enough that I can get by.
Get some foam ear plugs, spend some time practicing around the house. Get comfortable finding your cheek weld and getting a good tuck on the stock, and then go back out and try again.
This isn't going to get fixed by buying a more expensive scope.
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