A friend is putting together a new 12-Bore break-open rifle. He'll be shooting 730 or 750gr home-cast bullets, sitting on 165-189gr of blackpowder.

His preferrence for his old BP rifles is a Tang sight with a ring up front or the old external adjustment scopes. He can't put a Tang sight on this rifle, and obviously he doesn't want anything sitting near his eyes.

Though he usually shoots at a 440-yard gong, this 12-Bore will most likely be limited to 100 yards (maybe a 235 gong if 100 is too easy).

So I suggested maybe a Scout style scope would work. Is this an option? The parallax will be horrendous, but I don't know if a solid cheek weld is advisable. Any ideas?

Can't wait to see and shoot this thing. So far the biggest BP rifle he has is a 50-140, w/ 600gr bullet. Figuring that a 12-Bore translates to 72-189, w/ 750gr bullet it should be a real blast. I plan to capture all the effects on camera. It'll be fun to measure the BP cloud. Spotting will have to done from 3-4 benches over, and then only up wind.

I want to give this one more chance. Does anyone have any ideas on this? Are we stuck with a V in back and a post up front? I might manage with that, but the owner is 71 and needs at least a peep sight.

I would really appreciate some insight on this. Thanks.

Gonz' not sure this will match up to what your thinking,,, I have a old Savage 94 10ga,, has had the bbl cut back to 24" and have mounted a Leopol' shotgun scope on it, so far so good,