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Because they just keep going
I have a Nikko Sterling 4x40 gold crown that came with a Mauser 6.5x55 in the early 90's, one of those refurbished M96's in 6.5x55 for those that remember
It has been on that 6.5x55, 2x 308's, one a BLR, a Lever gun in 44 mag and .22 untill recently
It has always worked, set and forget, lost the rubber ring around the eye piece years ago [ switched to .22] and now currently resides in my spare parts box
Any one else have a cheepo that has done really well.
Yup. First scope I ever owned. Think it was a Nikko Stirling Silver Crown 4x32. Came on a Norinco 22 mag I stupidly bought as my first rifle. It ended up on my Grandads Winchester 69A and shot hundreds of rabbits. I don't know if I still have it, might be amongst the pile of old scopes I have.
Had a tasco pronghorn on my first deer rifle 30yrs ago,midland .308, kept going and going.
Simmons 3-12x40 cam with m7 223 I bought back in mid ninetees, been to hell and back, deer pigs and countless numbers of goats.
Cut a stoat in half at fifty meters once.
Paint has worn off top half and a few dinks.
Not the best clarity and quite blurry at high magnification.
Could,nt give it away even if tried so I just keep using it. Currently on .308
4-16×42 nickon Monarch......been on a few rifles from 22mag to 30-06, will probably go on a 223 at some stage. Too cheap to sell off, way too good to consider getting rid of :yaeh am not durnk:
Got a 22 that used to belong to my mates dad since he was a kid. I don't have any idea what it is as the name has long since disappeared .
The reticle has even some how rotated 45 degrees plus in the scope body, but amazingly still pokes the rounds where the scope says they should go.
Also my papoose still wears the same super-short 4x scope I fitted to it when purchased early nineties and has never missed a beat after all the abuse that has had. And super short so it still fits in it's takedown bag .
Tasco 6x40 post and wire reticle would be 40 plus years old been on a 270, 308, 223, 3006. Just keeps going, shitty to reticle by today's standards though.
1990 Tasco 4x32 from Sutherland Sports in New Plymouth here, migrated from my .22 Anschütz 1450 to my 30-06 Remington Mountain Rifle in 1994, ashamedly it’s been there ever since.
An Olivian 4-16-44 that I brought from the tahr show 13yr ago has out lived a 223 and prob 800 rounds into its second 1 final given up
1.7-10x42 Swaro
Simmons 3-9x40 from the early 90's, was originally on dads .270. I shot my first deer with it and 25 years later, it's still going strong on one of my .22lr's.
4x32 Kahles, bought new from Wilhelm Arms and Optics in the late 80's, no one would give you a thankyou for such a scope today but it has never moved despite knocks and crashes over banks etc
4x32 Miroku (Bentley) from about 1978.
I have to admit its not even in a set of rings as as spare at the moment but I can't bring myself to part with it.
Other retired scopes like a couple of VX-1 have been sighted in as spares and sit in spare rings ready to be thrown back into service in an emergency.
Yup another vote for the old Tasco, I have a gloss black 4x of uncertain vintage (old) that I was given by my Grandpa when I was a youngster. I had it on numerous rifles as a teenager and it went with me when I moved to Africa and was on my ZKK601 .243 Win for a good while. It was given with that rifle to a younger relative as a hand me down, but one time when I visited them and found it lying around all grubby and unloved, so I took it back. Then it went on various rimfires and did a shit load of shooting here in NZ on a 10/22.
Still have it, its on the Howa .243 training rifle now for my boys. Never let me down, no fogging or wandering zero. Just simple as.
i have a couple of tasco scopes
1.5-4.5x32 proshot? reticle (similar to the loopy turkey plex)
and a 2-8 x32 compact (sitting on my 8mm at the moment till i can afford something more in keeping )
have a redfield sitting on the shelf waiting for a suitable rifle.......patiently waiting....
A ‘Count’ brand 4x32 from the 60’s.
The adjustments moved the crosshairs in the direction indicated instead of the point of impact, you could see the crosshairs move as you adjusted them.
It’s now a dust gatherer…
4x32 Miroku. It's now on a .22 that gets a hard life but still going strong.
Rather interesting isn't it. The common wisdom is that cheap scopes can't be reliable.
now many years ago ( and this brings up the recently retire richard wilhelm who i have the ultimate respect for) i sold a leupold scope and bought a japanese made tasco "world class" scope , from memory it was 3-9x50, 30mm unit.
" why did you sell a leupold and buy a tasco!!! he asked.
then he wandered outside his shop, grabbed my tasco alongside a really expensive german/austrian etc scope, pointed it towards the central city and it was a case of " now i know why"
it was bloody awesome, then again it sat on top of a 10/22 that gundoc built for me and was a total a tack driver but too heavy for bunny blasting . the damn thing would do 18mm at 100m !!
Most scopes are reliable enough. Price usually reflect firstly fit and finish, then image quality, then mecanical precision/dialability, then features. If you dont mess with dialing and shoot it on a 308 five shots a year, even after 30 years it is only 150 rounds. Most scopes are expected to survive that.Quote:
Originally Posted by 6x47
We pay a premium for diminishing returns on optics.
I've got a Guncity 3-9 x 40 and a Niko Sterling Gameking 4-16 x 44 that are in my spare scope drawer.
The only real reason I've hung on to them is they're not worth the effort of trying to sell.
The GC 3-9 is ok to put on a new rifle till a better scope comes along but I find the gameking is like looking through a coke bottle.
I also have an NC star scout scope, didn't like the concept so thats gone in the drawer till later on as well. Maybe I'm just a hoarder of crap things?
4x40 Tasco from the early 90's. Been on a .303,.270, 6.5x55 and a few .22's. Been on the Toz .22 since 1998 and never missed a beat. Clarity of glass is incredible for the price. Shot thousands of rabbits etc with it over the years.
Another Miroku 4x32 owner came with a 7x57 Ruger I bought in 1980 dropped it on a rock in the blue mountains when sling parted ways , has a big ding in it but still good as, now sits on a baikal 30.06 that never gets used
Greetings All,
A Tasco 2.5x32 that I bought in the late 1970's for my Rem 700 .308. It was used for years including NZDA target shooting and I shot my first deer looking through it. It has also been on my Ruger 10-22 and most recently was briefly on my .308 Bergara single shot until a horrified friend loaned me a Leupold 1.5 to 5 that he thought was more suitable. It is not done yet.
Regards Grandpamac.
Tasco 4-32 on my Russian Toz got it when I was about 10 so had it about 48 years still going strong.
I even used it as a pattern to make a brass trophy for our local nzda so it was rammed into sand to form the cavity that the brass was poured into.
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