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Was the Weaver V-900 a good scope, mediocre, poor?

Thank you.

Barkoff,

I am sure if you check the tube on your V-900, it's not made of blued steel.

The V-900 was one of the first "Classic" series . They were the first Aluminum tubed centerfire scopes Weaver made from 1970 to 1973 in El Paso.

They were a response to competition from Redfield and Leupold for a rust proof scope..

At the time, they were the most expensive hunting scope Weaver made and had their best optics in them. Weaver supposedly spent a LOT of R&D money developing a draw forming process for alumium. The main tubes were drawn to shape,not machined. They also spent lot of money of a high quality anodizing process.

Strangely enough, they kept the plastic lense cell frames(end caps) from the late 1960s steel tubed scopes.It was the first of what were to be several marketing blunders by OLIN management which had bought Weaver out in 1968.

Overall, they are about as good as any other Weaver scope from the 1970s in terms of optics and overall reliability.
Due to their thin drawn aluminum tubes, they are just about the lightest 3-9 scopes Weaver ever made.