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Here's a Sharps with a period scope being shown by Iain McCallum. I would imagine a rifle like the Springfield Trapdoor would pose it's own challenges to mount a scope simply by it's design. However, the following video shows how some of these scopes worked including the recoil action which is interesting. .....which in turn could have possibly cleared the "trap door" to allow reloading. Either way, I'll wager a lot of these setups were custom involving work by talented gunsmiths like the one mention in this video. Some sort of offset rig could have also been implemented to allow reloading on a Springfield.

Thanks everyone. I’m at work but I’ll check everything out later on. I’m excited as I will be ranking up to unlock the rifle in game this weekend on the PS4!.

I'm with you, the new update is a joke. Those who have to complete everything will do it whether they enjoy it or not. Good luck to them. I already have the four best horses in the game. none of which are carthorses which are for carts or carrying knights with all their armour. I was already enjoying the game enough so a failed filler doesn't matter to me. With me an action is all about purpose and crazily grinding out an impossible chase trying to shoot a thousand tranqs. into a seemingly invulnerable animal has little fun/purpose value. For those concerned about nerfing and buffing, I'm not, I just take what comes and get on with it because why give yourself ulcers when every game is constantly being altered.

This is a ‘64, and it’s a reproduction of I’m not mistaken, but here is how a period scope would have looked...

Me too. My fast achievement lvl 20 is sedating animals and running continuously Harriet Missions🤣 I think they will fixe this asap for a normal mission delay-time.

I’m sure at least some were fitted with something like a Malcolm scope for those who could afford one... though I doubt many issued rifles were fitted with one, other than maybe a few for sharpshooters...

Sure. Just pretend that Harriet is your in game wife and it will all make sense.

James is absolutely correct - the animal spawns are huge, so much so I'm creating roadkill at about 4 animals per session whereas in the past it was very rare to cause roadkill on my horse - this can be bad on the day the challenge is "don't kill any animals for 12 hours"! Put it this way - up near the top of the map by the inventors place I was skinning a 1* Cougar when a 2* Cougar attacked me! IMO they may need to dial down the spawns just the taddiest of tads as it is a bit insane!

James said it's a god dam zoo? Downloading now

Agree with some of the others, the most important thing imho is to just take it slow, really, really slow. Almost forget about the story, and do story elements as you feel like doing them, try not to be all "type A" about reaching "the ending". This is a game to be enjoyed, and think of the story "ending" not as a reward, or a puzzle to be solved, but as something you'll reach someday after you've enjoyed all the game has to offer. Focus on exploring, studying the animals, learning to hunt, fish, take care of yourself, think of it more as going out for an evening ride after work on your horse to take in the sunset, and pick up a few herbs, maybe shoot a rabbit along the way. Just experience it and take it in. There is no hurry to "finish" this game. Most games have goals, you might want to acquire as much money as possible, or as much resources ... but in RDR2 I don't feel that is really the point. There are a ton of technical tips about doing specific things that could be talked about, but my tip in general would just to be opportunistic - as someone above said, loot when you can, and always be aware of the things you need to progress in any category. There will be all kinds of objectives that you can have, but instead of working towards a specific one, my advice is to just enjoy the game and always have all of the next steps to your objectives in mind so that you can be opportunistic and take advantage of situations as they arise. Maybe you need a certain kind of animal to progress at something, or maybe there is a certain action you have to take to advance a skill, or a challenge to gain some resources, my advice is don't be so driven to "complete a project" and just have all of your projects in mind and enjoy finding pieces to the puzzles as you run across them.