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Just like brand new and over 65 years later...

What mod 70 is that shrapnel ? caliber ? Looks nice.

It is a 30-06, made in 1950. I still have the original barrel sight in a little flannel pouch. The guy that I got it from was a doctor and set the gun up for hunting with the Stith scope and base. I don't think he ever hunted it, it is nearly mint...

220 swift and Lyman All American...

Stevens 416?

I had a like new in the box Weaver Classic 400 for a few years. It was brighter than my leupold 2-7 vari-x ii from the early 1980's.

Those old Classics had great glass for their day.
Hope you enjoy yours.

Dan

Thanks. It looks brand new. I like it. Looks like Buehler mounts too.

I like the Lyman All-Americans with the Perma-Center reticles. Here's three:



Lyman 3X


An older Lyman, pre-Perma-Center. Post and Crosshair reticle. Mounted on a battered, but cherished .270 M70

Hello shrapnel,

Your Stith scope is also made by Kollmorgen, isn't it?

I have two rifles with 3-9 Redfield Lo-Profile scopes that are sentimental favorites and an old10x Lyman All-Ameican that isn't sitting on a gun right now.

Not Schrapnel, but the scope on the Winchester 70 appears to be a Kollmorgen built Stith branded scope installed via a Stith Master Mount.

Kollmorgen built 26mm diameter tube scopes for Stith and when Redfield bought the Kollmorgen's scope business, they initially continued the "Bear Cub" line with 26mm tubes, before transitioning them from 26mm to 1" diameter tubes. The 4x and 6x Stith Bear Cubs were available with internal windage/elevation adjustment and without any windage/elevation adjustments, the so-called "straight tube" style, that required Leupold or Stith adjustable mounts. The Stith Master Mount on Schrapnel's Winchester 70 is an adjustable mount.

While they are very uncommon, Weaver make some "Stith" branded scopes somewhere along the Stith line. I have a Weaver built Stith 4x that looks almost exactly like a K2.5 or K3, featuring a straight, rather than a belled, objective. It is the only one that I've ever seen and came to me from Nick Stroebel's personal collection.

Thank you 260!

El Paso built steel tube Weaver K-8 on my Ruger MK77/II in .22 WMR

El Paso built steel tube Weaver K-4 on a sporterized 98 Mauser in 8x57

Bausch & Lomb 1.5x-6x on a Winchester Model 70 rebarreled to .358 Norma Magnum

Not as dated as some, but not NexGen...

Those were excellent scopes. I still have a V700 Classic.

I have a vintage Zeiss Diatal 4x32 on a LW M-7/Brux fast twist .22-204 and a 10X Diatal on a 722/Hart slow twist .22-204, both duplex. The Zeiss duplex is very easy to see, even in dim light.

Those are great scopes. You can sometimes find one on Ebay.

DF

This one for sure.



It's a 1916 1899 Short Rifle, scope is a Lyman Alaskan with a post and crosshair. Also got a couple other early Weavers on '99's, a Weaver K6 on a 1950 vintage Remington 721 and earlier Leupolds on our Browning B78 single shot 7mm's.

yooper

Several low power Weavers, 1x, 1.5x, 2.5x and 3x, Leupold 3x and 7.5x, Redfield 2 3/4x PCH and a 12x, Lyman All Americans 2.5 and 4x.

Have been using a leupold vari-x III 2.5x8 that I bought new in 1998 have not had to sight it in since, A 80s williams twilight on my 22 and on my new to me 1957 husky 270 a early 80's burris 2x7 fullfield that I am totally impressed by the quality. I don't think the burris has ever been in the woods I am now looking for another one in 3x9

I like those old burris scopes too. My 4x has nice glass and the adjustments are probably as precise as any scope I have ever owned. Frankly it is brighter than the M8s I have owned

I put Weaver .15 - 4.5 on my .375 Mausers thirty years ago -they're still there. Also have several old Bushnells and Redfields - 3x9 that are as good today as they were lonnnnggggg ago.

Terry