Glen, I'm going to post a couple of pix of my hunting rifle to give an idea of eye relief and scope positioning. (The barrel work of this rifle was done by the late genius metalsmith John Madole and the scope mounts with Tally rings were done by Ed Webber.)
There is a small recoil shoulder on the rear base. The scope's front lense is just about where the gold ring is and I don't like to put the front ring over the lense, so that's about as far back as I'm comportable mounting the scope. The eye relief is fine on low power but when cranked up to 5x it's starting to get a bit edgy.
I'd think about an old El Paso Weaver low power scope. I've got a couple (2.5X) I've picked up at gun shows, in nearly new conidtion for very low prices. (who knows, they might be getting collectable?!?) They have a yard of eye relief, are close to the style that might have been on a Fraser, and repairable. Here are a couple more pics of my sidelever. (Also, my forend treatment was a take-off on the Fraser with quarter panels. This is a very heavy barrel.)
Curiously, the lower toe is where the English walnut was grafted to a black walnut rootstock. It only shows on teh cheekpiece side and I didn't notice it until I was trying to fill the pores and that area wouldn't fill. When I lived in the Willamette Valley there was a walnut orchard about a mile from my house and all the trees had a bulge about a foot and a half off the ground where the graft was.
