Do vintage air rifle users also use vintage scopes?

[TJ Mac]

There are vintage scopes and vintage scopes, just being older doesn't automatically mean they are crap.

Vintage quality items, if looked after, tend to retain their quality.

Vintage crap - well that speaks for itself.

Can't argue with that. For hunting I used an old Burris 1 3/4 - 5 scope and it was awesome. I still have it and a couple of others, but for field target, they did not have enough magnification and that is what I shoot almost exclusively.

If I venture out hunting again, the Burris will see action on a nice break action rifle. More than a few fellas have asked me to sell it, but the quality and sentimental value is worth more than I could sell it for.

 

[rockdrill]

This is my FWB Mod300S Running Boar, fitted with an old Leupold Vari-XII 3-9x33 (pre EFR type), it has had a dialling turret fitted on the elevation and re-parallaxed to focus at airgun distances:


I have a few older Burris scopes, a fixed 12x Target, a 4x20 and a 6-24x44RA - all very nice optics and very useable.

This is the Burris 12x fitted to a custom Shamal 'Kompac-88' carbine:


The 6-24x44RA on a Mk1 NJR-100:


Some of my favourite scopes for FT are Premier Reticles boosted Leupold Mk4-M1 scopes, I have two boosted to 32x and two at 35x - all built pre-2000 and still very capable if you spend the time learning them.

35x Premier/Leupold Mk4 on a custom NJR-100:


I also like the old Tasco Custom Shops scopes from the 1990's, I have three of them in my collection, two 8-40x56 and a 12-60x56 - all still very capable of delivering the goods.

 

[TJ Mac]

35x Premier/Leupold Mk4 on a custom NJR-100:
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I have this scope presently mounted on my TX HC for FT until I get my Mk1 SR up and running again. I like the compact size and have used it enough to range find quite accurately with it.

 

[yana]

I wouldnt use a vintage scope. Especially not if its original. My hurricane came with original pistolscope. Id be afraid it would break.