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1972. Bought new for about $3500. Had a toad of a 2-bolt cast-iron crank station wagon motor, but the RSs were very pretty cars. Royal blue. When I bought it, there was a '71 396 with solid lifters on the showroom floor, but alas it was already sold. Probably would've killed myself in that one.

Gone the way of all cars; probably became a stove or refrigerator.

BTW, that Sako cost $257 at Best, a membership store of the era. Gone too, dammit.

Did it do that reliably? If so, then there was a workaround.

On the 10/22 target it seemed to come back to zero, the clicks were just off on anything past 100 yards........hitting high every time, worse the farther out I went, out to 200 yds if I remember correctly. I haven't messed with the scope for several months now, only rifle it was was the 10/22 target. When i mounted it yesterday on the Ruger Ranch 7.62x39 the groups at 100 yds were twice as large as with the SWFA 6x that is normally on it. Shot both scopes side by side yesterday. SWFA tracked as perfectly as I could have measured. Leupold did not come back to zero every time, taking a "shot" and then coming back to zero. Not to mention the 3 MOA Error at a paltry 11 MOA come up.............I wasn't going to "work around" this POS

Then there were other problems, so the work around wouldn't work.

Thanks for the write up............really big scope at 14.6" & 30 oz.

I go to the Czech Republic frequently as we own a plant there, & would like to go to Mepota for a tour on one of my trips.

MM

It's a great place to go if you like high quality beer.

Yes, I get to Pilzen frequently........................our plant is between Prague & Pilzen.

Hard to get much better than that for beer.

MM

I'm jealous!

If it’s in the mounting system or action then a Leupold would have made a difference in POI. Yeah sure

I really hope the Optika6 scopes prove to be solid performers. After looking at Doug’s site, it appears a 2.5-15x44mm is coming late 2019.

My favorite Czech product:

Waiting on my 4.5-27X50 SFP, Dichrotech 4-D, ret. should be here soon (November). Its going on a custom Volquartsen Deluxe .22lr for long range rimfire matches.

I'll post info when I have it.

its said USA on the box the formadillo posted. I assume these are built in the US facility, new jersey? same place they assembled the ziess conquests for years.

After the reticle, it’s features.


Turrets: This model has a 10 mil per revolution, pop up, locking elevation turret with zero stop, and a capped windage turret.



Elevation locked (down)-




Elevation unlocked (up)-



Cap unscrews without tools to remove elevationt turret (the cap vibrated loose while driving and fell off) -



Pull the turret off and you have the zero stop with mechanical limiter-




Windage-







Parallax and illumination knob-



Power ring with small built in rubber cat tail-




On the turrets, not that it really matters but they feel good. It needs a revolution indicator on the elevation, but being that when adjusting the turret doesn’t move up or down....? I do not set zero stops to stop dead nuts on zero. But instead 2.9 mils lower, in any case, without a rev indicator multiple times a day I popped the ele turret up, spun down to bottom, and back up to be positive that it was not a rev off. The windage needs a half rev limiter as well, as there also is no rev indicator either. They also need to mark the windage knob starting at “0” 5 mils each direction. Instead it is marked in a continuous fashion from “0” to “9”.

Setting the zero stop is not really intuitive, and Meopta does not include very good instructions.

One can say that they’ll never touch the windage dial after zeroing as it’s capped, or that the elevation has a zero stop so there’s no need there.... both of those are good ways to end up a full rev off of where you thought you were. Checking elevation and windage zero and revolution is a part of picking the rifle up first thing in the morning, periodically throughout the day, and anytime it has been out of your immediate control. Checking elevation is simple enough, if not as easy as it could be, but windage is a no go unless you dial all the way one direction and count back.


The power ring is good. Has a built in small cat tail, and multiple slots for an extended one if desired.

Parallax: Knob is easy and smooth, and the numbers are decently close with where the diopter is currently set. Not super finicky on parallax.



TBC....

Illumination: It’s designed to only illuminate the center dot and cross. It does that, however there is quite a bit of bleed and the illumination is not even. I don’t care, as the illumination does what it is supposed to -make you be able to see the reticle in low light, and I’m glad they didn’t spend more money or effort on this, rather than function. The knob is adjacent to the parallax knob. Between every setting there is on off click.


3x





18x





TBC....

That is just the UPC code. They are made in the Czech Republic.

To digress a bit, I looked at the 1-6x24 on the website. Comes in FFP and SFP, with multiple reticle choices. The SFP has capped turrets.

IF the adjustments turn out to be solid, I can see one of those for this area, probably a duplex. Not light, but sturdy usually isn't, it seems.

formadillo! Phucqk!

Form, nice write up. I don't want to hijack the thread, but was wondering if the large quantities of ammunition that you shoot are factory or handloads. Your high volume would take some serious reloading . Thanks.

Haha. No.

I prefer my ammo to come 20 to a box, 460 to a can, and 920 to a case.

those look like factory barrels he gets more life out of them than I do.