Usable Vintage Scope
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Give Iron Sights in Tulsa a call or email. https://ironsightinc.com/index.php?route=information/contact
I bought an older Redfield from them with a Mildot reticle and they included a one-year warranty. They refurbish them and can custamize to your requests. You can buy some great Redfields or Weavers on Ebay and Gunbroker for reasonable prices if your patient but it's a role of the dice.
I haven't read anything positive about the Hi-Lux vintage stuff.
I bought an older Redfield from them with a Mildot reticle and they included a one-year warranty. They refurbish them and can custamize to your requests. You can buy some great Redfields or Weavers on Ebay and Gunbroker for reasonable prices if your patient but it's a role of the dice.
I haven't read anything positive about the Hi-Lux vintage stuff.
The old steel Weavers are very useable.
A Weaver T10 is a fine scope its adjustable turrets are great and it has parallax adjustment. There are other magnifications in the T series line.
I have M40 clones so I looked into the Hi-Lux scopes. They look very much the part of a Redfield clone.
Leupold also made a repro M40 scope - looks less like an issue Redfield than the Hi-Lux.
I prefer the Leupolds because they have a mil reticle. The Hi-Lux is a truer clone but the weakness with these scopes include the capped turrets and the "squishy" adjustments. My intent is to just hold mil dots and never mess with my zero.
Id rather get a used vintage Redfield than a Hi-Lux personally.
Ebay has plenty of great older scopes for you just shop with discretion.
A Weaver T10 is a fine scope its adjustable turrets are great and it has parallax adjustment. There are other magnifications in the T series line.
I have M40 clones so I looked into the Hi-Lux scopes. They look very much the part of a Redfield clone.
Leupold also made a repro M40 scope - looks less like an issue Redfield than the Hi-Lux.
I prefer the Leupolds because they have a mil reticle. The Hi-Lux is a truer clone but the weakness with these scopes include the capped turrets and the "squishy" adjustments. My intent is to just hold mil dots and never mess with my zero.
Id rather get a used vintage Redfield than a Hi-Lux personally.
Ebay has plenty of great older scopes for you just shop with discretion.
I have a k98 with the L SR mount, after two bad experiences with repro zf39 scope, I put a weaver k4 on it. Great glass and it looks really good on the gun. Also if you want to shoot the vintage sniper match then that scope is legal for mausers
Hope this helps
Kevin
Hope this helps
Kevin
Weaver T series for the win.
Carbide balls on the adjustment points, strong spring tension on the erector tube, and very closely ground screws combined into one of the tightest and strongest adjustment systems ever put in a rifle scope.
Including modern production. Nothing has been proven materially better, and most of it is just a repro of the same thing.
Leupolds get Tuckered for a reason....
-Nate
Carbide balls on the adjustment points, strong spring tension on the erector tube, and very closely ground screws combined into one of the tightest and strongest adjustment systems ever put in a rifle scope.
Including modern production. Nothing has been proven materially better, and most of it is just a repro of the same thing.
Leupolds get Tuckered for a reason....
-Nate
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I've had the best luck for buying vintage scopes off of Gunbroker. Ebay always seems overpriced. I just picked up a T10 this week for $150 that no one else bid on. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/830749417
Then there's one more T10 that's already up to $162 with six days to go. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/830907332
Prior to this, the lowest I've seen one go for was $214.
Then there's one more T10 that's already up to $162 with six days to go. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/830907332
Prior to this, the lowest I've seen one go for was $214.
Well. I didn't really post this as an intent to sell.. But I just got the barrel off of my 457 last night and started weighing components, so I might---painfully--send you my T6.
I really love it, but I also really need to lose some weight on this rifle, and a lighter scope is the way to do that.
...gah.. I JUST got this thing, and it's kind of rare as it is.
Well, lemme know.
Settled on a Weaver K4-60B for now. Hopefully it will hold zero, unlike my LOW Japanese Scope.
I had a K10-60B.
It was a pretty nice scope...
It was on my M40A1 until I got my USO/MST-100
It did pretty well. Only issue with it was it ran out of elevation at about 600 yards with the base I was using. My particular scope had some sort of "fish eye" in it also that kind of moved around the lens.
I usually only shoot at either 100 yards, 200 yards or 300 yards. That's what my usual range offers.
Doing that I Sharpied lines on the elevation erector that corresponded to each distance and dialed when I shot at a specific range.
Doing this seemed to get me close enough.
Occasionally I get to shoot a 900 meter range and when I did best I could reach dialing was to set it at about 600 yards and even than it took holding the top of the silhouette to hit.
not sure how vintage it actually is but https://hi-luxoptics.com/collections/vintage-reproduction-scopes
if you can't find the real ones these may work .
if you can't find the real ones these may work .
The 6x42 Kahles ZF 69, often taken off Steyr SSGs, are perfect on M40'ies with Redfield 26mm 4sqrew rings.
This is how the M40'ies should have been scoped in the first place instead of the Redfield scopes.
The ZF69 is a perfect bulletproof scope in the field with outstanding optics for its age.
For range use the T10 is the best vintage scope.
This is how the M40'ies should have been scoped in the first place instead of the Redfield scopes.
The ZF69 is a perfect bulletproof scope in the field with outstanding optics for its age.
For range use the T10 is the best vintage scope.
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