So I just put a tasco 3-9 rifle scope on my 223 barrel-its gonna be my charlie/varmint killer. WOW--I LOVE IT!!! I was not happy at all with how far i had to stretch my arms with a pistol scope-just made for awkward in my opinion. I can get FULL FIELD OF VIEW all powers with this set up. I have a short brimmed hat and scope goes right to that so i know im safe. With 223 there is pretty much no recoil-I have a bipod and it just sorta jumps up a bit-not towards me at all. I am very tempted to get something for my 308 now-it currently has a 2-7x tc pistol scope on it but i the eer. 308 is not breaked though so I dont know how close I could get to that. I am an extreme beleiver that all smaller calibers should have riflescopes on them. THEY ARE AWESOME!!!!