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Anyone still hunt with one? I still have 5 or 6 accutrac models on rifles. I’ve been switching to Leupolds and to Talley bases and rings. The old Redfield scopes have held up well. Some are over 30 years old. Maybe not as good as a more recent scope, but I can still see fine during legal shooting hours. They were good back in their day. I had over 30 at one time.

I've had two, still have one. My dad put a 3-9 Widefield on his M70 .243 the day after he bought the rifle in the late 70's. I went with him on the first sight in trip and I was still too young for him to let me take a shot with anything but my .22. He had it on there for years and didn't trade for a newer scope until the amber tinting reached a point where it was reducing low light clarity. That rig was the epitome of a "cool rifle" for me, growing up. The scope is tough, still tracks just fine, and if not for the amber setting in, he'd still be using it, latest optical quality or not. I have it now, since he told me to just hold onto it when I mounted the new scope for him, a Fullfield II 3-9 that blew away the Widefield for crisp clarity. He doesn't care what I do with it, but I can't bring myself to part with it, despite the lack of good purpose. Sentimental nostalgia.

It can be rebuilt if it’s not an accutrac.

Look how badly this poor buyer got taken.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/REDFIELD-L...73057386715?_trksid=p2485497.m4902.l9144

Not sure if you can view the photos up close or not, but the surface has been bead blasted. You can see where the bead blasting missed some black anodizing. Also, a STAINLESS STEEL scope? Can you imagine how expensive and how heavy this would be? Redfield never made a SS scope. I emailed the seller and told him all this, to which I got a very angry reply (of course). SIGH.

I still have 4 of them on rifles, have held up fine and still seem very clear to me.Even a 2x7 Widefield that has held up to a hard kicking Rem 660 in 350 mag!

Close to 40yrs ago a now passed on friend gave me a used 2.75x20mm w/fine crosshair reticle. Used it a lot for a number of years on a few different rifles. Mount it,bore sight it,minor adjustments at the range,and it was good to go. Sold it here at the fire many moons ago. Often wondered how it's doing. Bought a NIB M8 2.5x20mm w/hvy plex here a number of yrs ago (after the FX was introduced). Like that Denver Redfield was it's now my most dependable scope.

I still have five or six in various powers. Still have some of them on rifles.

I have a 2 x 7 Widefield Illuminator sitting in the safe that still holds zero. I have a 1 x 5 widefield that won't on a centerfire rifle but it is on a bolt action 22 to shoot nuisance squirrels in the back yard. It is working for that Sighted in for CB caps at 18 yards.. Both of them have been returned for repair. The 1 x 5 lost its seal and started fogging after 25 years. The 2 x 7 broke the reticle the first time I shot at a deer with it sitting on my 35 Whelen. They didn't want to fix it And I insisted. They sent it back with a Brown looking fingerprint inside the glass on the scope. I sent it back again and they didn't want to fix that either. I never considered buying another Redfield product. They closed shortly after. My dad had a 3 x 9 from the 60s on his rifle his whole life. It was a great scope for it's day. Never leaked and stayed zero. My sisters husband still hunts with it.

The BEST scopes I ever had!
Had mine all rebuilt by ABO when they were still in business
then gave them to my brother in IDAHO.
He would not part with them for anything.

I have a bunch of them, 8-10 on rifles now. The ones that are good and clear are better than other stuff at that price range.

I still have Thre. The 6-18x40 Golden Five Star Accu-Trac gets used the most. Many years on a 7x61 Sharp & Hart Super.

I have a Golden 5 Star, late production at Denver. It has always been faintly disappointing TBH, never seeming to have the clarity and resolving power that I would expect. It was never much good if the light was in your face either. It sat on various rifles for several years, and I killed various game with it, but eventually it ended up back in its box on the shelf in the gunroom. Maybe it isn't a good representative of the breed, but I don't think it stood up to comparison with contemporaries such as a Bushnell ScopeChief or Leupold.

I have several in use, mostly 2-7x and 3-9x.

Back in the 1960s they were looked upon favorably, considered equal to B&L and Leupold, a step up from Weavers and a step down from Unertls.

They were good back then, serviceable now.

I know a guy that hunts a Redfield Golden 5 Star 3-9 on a Remington 742 30-06, he has killed a pile of deer with that rig.....He also still hunts a Tasco World Class 3-9 on his Remington 700 BDL .243 Win, I know he has had these same rig's since at least the early 80's when I first met him, he is in his late 60's now but he is still an avid hunter.........Hb

I have several, only one is still used.
The others all have gone hazy.



Who rebuilds them, how much.
Why can't an accu-trac be rebuilt, I have at least one of those.

I owned 5 of them back in the lates 60’s and early 70’s and everyone of them failed, after a few years. Never, ever again will I mountba Redfield.

Ironsight, Inc. in Tulsa, OK, rebuilds them, but the wait is around a year the last time that I had one done.

www.ironsightinc.com

If you want more information, their telephone number is 918-445-2001.

If the accutrac mechanisms have gone bad, there is no more parts to repair them.

I have a 6x18 accutrac on a 7mm ultra mag Sendero. Anything within 600 yards best look out. The A-dial fits the 150 grain Ballistic tip almost perfectly.