My reply has two parts:
(1) An alternative solution to the AIM Sports scope
(2) Comments on the AIM Sports scope — this scope surprised me.
(1) Last time I searched for a pistol scope I came up with a whole lot of unsatisfying solutions.
But.... — after deciding that the PP700 was really too heavy for shooting it like a pistol with an outstreched arm —
and after realizing that I could rest the gun and pick off pigeons at 50 yards —
it now happily wears a Discovery VT-3 3-12x44 FFP and has been my deadliest tool.
At 10" short and 18.4oz light it fits the PP700 well.
Of course, the eye relief is typical for a rifle scope. No prob.
For offhand shooting (right-handed) I stand with my left shoulder toward the target, and rest the barrel/silencer on my left ellbow joint. Much more stable than wavering the gun on an outstretched arm....
(2) If you still want the outstreched arm shooting position, cool.
The AIM Sports scope seens to be a remarkable offering:
▪ Pistol scopes, i.e., scopes that
have a very long eye relief for shooting the pistol at arm's length — do not often have
adjustable magnification. This one and another do:
AIM Sports 3-12x32 Scout Scope AO:
Eye relief = 9"-22"(!)
AIM Sports 2-7x42 Scout Scope: Eye relief = 8.5"-10.5"
▪ Pistol scopes rarely ever have an
adjustable parallax. Since they usually come with a very low magnification (2x or 4x) parallax error is very low. However, AIM Sports' 3-12x at higher magnifications would have more of a parallax error — and so it comes with AO (front parallax adjustment) (the 2-7x does not).
▪ The field of view (FoV) of the AIM Sports 3-12x32
is very narrow in comparison to rifle scopes at similar magnifications.
But this is to be expected due to the long distance that the eye is positioned away from the ocular lens. (The exact opposite happens when the eye relief is super short as in a prismatic scope — there the FoV is huge in comparison to regular scopes.)
3-12x32: FoV = 14'—4'
2-7x42: FoV = 19'—4'
▪ The AIM Sports 3-12x32 Scout Scope AO: • It has an
eye relief that changes drastically with the magnification. This probably requires to get used to.
• It has an
extreme eye relief. As stated in the catalog the eye relief changes from 9" (at 3x?) to 22" (at 12x). It seems that
9" eye relief is really(!) short for a typical pistol hold — and
22" is really(!) long for most human arms (unless you're a monkey disguised as a human).
• The AIM Sports 3-12x32 Scout Scope seems to be an
"multitask scope" for those who are looking for a scope that does the following:
(a) A true pistol scope, to be shot at arm's length
(b) A scope to shoot mid to long range (40-60y?) — normall rested (unless you have an incredibly steady aim, I guess)
Specs The specs on the DVOR site are missing ONE critical information for a pistol scope: FoV....
On the AIM Sports site the webpage does not have any detailed specs....
But their PDF catalog does have the specs, incl. the FoV. The catalog can be found on their webpage, or under this link:
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:cd42322a-baf2-474f-a7b5-5c1f37dabddc#pageNum=17 Matthias
