Have seen a few Shotgun scopes around and I must admit I've thought of using them on a rifle, has any of you done that and what would be the downside to doing so?
In my mind I would think a shotgun scope would have to be built well enough to handle some stiff recoil and I also know they make them in Nikons plex reticle.
Tell me more.

More to the story:
I just got off the phone with a Nikon Tech about a problem I'm having with a 3-9 Monarch with a stiff power adjusting ring and I posed the above question to him.
His thoughts were that it would be perfectly accepatable to install a Shotgun scope on a rifle. Paralax is adjusted to 75 yards on a shotgun scope and 100 yards on rifle scopes but that should not be an issue.

A friend of mine is using a Nikon Omega, which is for a muzzle loader, on an AR.

Of course it will work.

I have a leupold 1x4x shotgun scope on my 505 gibbs, no problems at all after > 100 rounds. By the way, i did have a J point (pistol red dot) on it before this, didnt last 5 rounds.

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Originally posted by Snellstrom:
Have seen a few Shotgun scopes around and I must admit I've thought of using them on a rifle, has any of you done that and what would be the downside to doing so?
In my mind I would think a shotgun scope would have to be built well enough to handle some stiff recoil and I also know they make them in Nikons plex reticle.
Tell me more.

I use a 1x4 Leupold on my 45-70. Since my hunting is withing 100 yds I chose the shotgun scope [parallax of 75 yds vs 150 yds for Leupold.].As it turned out the duplex crosshairs covered 3" at 100 yds. This was more than it was supposed to be and certainly more than acceptable for a rifle of 1 MOA or better. I had them change to a rifle duplex .Works fine !!

Shotgun scopes work well on 22 Rimfire rifles because the parallax is just right for Squirrel hunting.

Don

I have a couple of Nikon ProStaff 2-7x32s on rifles and don't see any problems with the 75 yard parallex setting.

I also have a couple of Weaver RV7 2-7x28s mounted on light recoiling CF rifles and don't see any problem with the 50 yard parallex setting on them either.

The 2-7x32 Nikon ProStaff offers a lot of optical value for the price. Current wholesale is right around $100 and I think that it would be hard to find a better value for $100 almost anywhere in the shooting sports venue.

Jeff