The 7x and 10x are not a true handgun scope but will work, I have several. They are marked as IER, intermediate eye relief, rather than EER, extended eye relief.
Be careful as you will find yourself creeping up on the eye piece.
The Burris 5X are good piece of glass also with more eye relief. They have AO and TT on them also.
I have used about every handgun scope out there at one time or another. As a good all around piece of glass the Bushnell 2-6 elite is what I prefer. The Trophy model is ok, but you give up some clarity,eye relief and field of view.
IHMSA can give a scope a real work out. Some folks will just change their hold on the target, which I have found to bite you in varying light conditions. So, I change elevation settings for every distance. My original first year production B&L is going strong, I would guess in excess of 30,000 rounds of 7TCU and 30-30.
I have read mixed emotions on these. I have another Bushnell that has been on either a 45-70 or 44 magnum both fed a steady diet of heavy loads.
Then to further bump these, my friend used not a Leupold but a Bushnell Elite 2-6 to win the IHMSA, UAS class internationals numerous times,against dozens of shooters from around the globe. However I know he has sent it in for repair at least once.
As mentioned some of the lower powered glass will act more as a cross hair in a tube. Optics are not for everyone for sure. They can some times frustrate a situation more rather than fix it.
I have shot some very good groups off the bags in years past, but it did not come quick or easy.
The way the gun rides the bags along with what happens under recoil can frustrate a person really bad. There are various ways and methods out there to do it.
I have said it before and will say it again. When working with the TC platform, anything you know or think you know about other guns, doesn't apply to these. That goes for loading and bench technique.
I searched for 1"@100m for a long time. FYI doing it once doesn't make it or me a 1" gun. I wanted one that would do it on demand with its load, several barrels later and several years I got it in a 30-30 factory barrel. The 7TCU would never do it with any kind of rhyme or reason.
Buddy bought a 30-30 custom and I think with the right lube it would shoot rocks into an inch. So there is something to be said for a custom barrel to save time and money in the long run. You can spend the $$ up front and get a proper chamber and throat,
or spend it in time and load work later with a factory tube AND that is a maybe.
One other thing I found on glass, it doesn't take the misses out,lol.
Jeff
