Thread: What's the longest you've kept the same scope on the same rifle

Originally Posted by dannyb

for me about 24 hours

We are talking scopes here, not rifles.

22 years. VXii on my 308Win. Still going strong, used it the past weekend in a club comp and managed to win

My howa .308 has had the same nikon monarch 2-8x32 for about 5 years now. Probably the longest partnership I've ever had. To be fair I go through rifles more than scopes. The nikon has been on 2 or 3 other rifles over the last 15 years or so.

The old man has a 4x32 Nikko Stirling Gold Crown or whatever that is well over 40 years old... has never left the rifle once since he bought brand new.

.223 has worn a 3x9x50 vx111 for over 20 years..its been off it a few times to try another scope but always ends up back on rifle....its just too big to fit mounts on anything else and it just works so well it belongs there.

42 years for me just sold the riffle with the scope still attached

Bought my Ruger No1 in 220 Swift in the US in 1988 , fitted a Tasco 4-16 x 40 Target scope on it and its never been removed .

Originally Posted by dannyb

for me about 24 hours

buy a better brand

new Leupold M8 4x32 on my new Sako lefthand battue 308 from 1986 till I sold it in the 2010 or there abouts

2-7x VX2 on my Ruger 270. Around 15 years or there abouts.

Start with a good scope and look after it. Regardless of how far you look or how hard you look through them, they don't seem to wear out. I have a 8x Zeiss on a .30-06 Husky that was a used but well-treated combo when I bought them over 40 years ago. It will continue to see me out, and be a good set-up for a young fellow after that.

Bushnell 2.75 bought about 1974 so about 50 years!

Still on the Gevarm .22 takes-down

33 years and counting.

47 years now for the Nikel Marburg on my BSA Martini.

That's a beautiful Sako in an excellent calibre. You obviously look after your gear. Nice.