LOL, nope not at all. It's on a cantilever SPR mount that still attached to the receiver and not the handguard.Don't wanna start any trouble, but that scope looks backwards from others I've seen posted around here!
I've been doing this a spell.
I'd like to see some of the chicom scopes you've been looking at for a comparison, lol
Now that I think of it, it probably is backwards from some of the scopes here
The small end on the left is the OBJ, the big end with the numbers and writing is the eypiece.
Here's Vickers write up on this scope:
https://www.vickerstactical.com/short-dot.html