Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Looks like Weaver is back in the rifle scope business

Natchez just posted some newly designed Weaver "Classic" models on their website-

https://www.natchezss.com/email/2020/weaverclassic.html



And it looks like it was not just a "special run" ,either-
Here they be on Weaver"s newly updated website-


https://www.weaveroptics.com/optics/

I have zero issues with Weaver scopes.I have quite a few Super Slams,Grand Slams and a few Nitrex and Buck Commanders.They are all great scopes and most are on 30-06's,7mags,300 mags and handle recoil without fail.

I saw them on Natchez site. They are a design I have not yet seen. I wonder where they are being manufactured. Natchez site doesn't say.

Looks like Weaver took up where Nikon left off.

If it's the same company that makes the Busnell Prime, Bushnell's website says South Korea.

Any chance they are still made at LOW Japan like some previous iterations of the classics were? I wasn't able to find country of origin on either site.

I suppose, like was already pointed out, they're most likely an extension of similarly priced Bushnell's, and you have to move to the very top of their line to get anything out of Japan.

I had good luck with a couple Japanese weavers from the early 90's. They proved to be really rugged. One was a very used 6x that was mounted to a 300win 700 that I bought for the action. The whole rig was BTF; dents and scratches all over the scope, cracked stock on the rifle. But the scope tracked well and it spent some time as a mule scope doing load development on several ml's and a couple center fires. Let a friend talk me out of it for a rig he was setting up for a youth hunting/mentor to hunt group. He says it's still holding zero after a lot of tumbles and getting knocked around, whereas some new scopes they had donated haven't proved up to the task.

I think those new Weavers are pretty much the South Korean made Bushnell "Prime" series scopes , although the higher powered Weavers have 30mm tubes.

They need to consider adding Mil dot or milldradian reticles and exposed turret versions of those 30mm scopes..

But really ,I am just glad they did not totally kill off the Weaver brand and I hope Vista resists the urge to make any more sub $100 Chicom crap with the Weaver name on it. They can do that with Tasco and Simmons..:)

Don't know if they've made any mechanical or optical improvements, but I prefer the previous Classics otherwise. They looked more classic and had magnification ranges I like. The 1-3x and 2.5-7x in particular. Adding a 2-7x to the line would be nice.

I hate to say it and hope I am wrong, but the looks of those scopes in the link coupled with that cheap price is looking very PRC like to me. RJ

I posted this over on Rimfire Central. Someone called and found out they are made in S Korea.

Bushnell AR 1-4 I have says Korea. Seems hella decent for the price.

Those 3-9x40s could be the bargain good enough entry scope at $150. We'll see.

Sounds like a good article for Mule Deer: a test between Burris FF, Weaver, Bushnell, and a few others at the same price point.

BTW, I appreciate the fact that they offer a regular hunting plex. Maybe we'll see fixed 4x and 6x (again) in the future.

Weavers have always done well for me. I put a Grand Slam on my Marlin 1895M and drug it through hell moose hunting in Alaska...... rain, snow, mud, rocks, brush .....never failed me.

The lack of a country of origin is default China..

Lack of it listed where? SWFA doesn't list Japan on their pages. Or does this only apply to new products?

Lack of it printed on the scope body or lack of it on the add. A scope made anywhere other than China is a positive and would be advertised as such!

Weaver

New "Elements" lens coatings sounds similar to Bushnell's rainguard. Weaver's have usually been pretty rugged and reliable, glad to see the brand alive.

[quote=RevMike]Sounds like a good article for Mule Deer: a test between Burris FF, Weaver, Bushnell, and a few others at the same price point.

BTW, I appreciate the fact that they offer a regular hunting plex. Maybe we'll see fixed 4x and 6x (again) in the future.[/quote]
Add a 2.5 or 3x fixed.

A “brand” is just a name. Lots of companies rent out their name to various outfits, like the “Winchester” orange vest I’ve worn for about twenty years, or the cheesy “Bell & Howell” electronic doodads sold in the crap catalogs they send out in the mail. Question is: who’s going to handle warranty work? Natchez is the exclusive distributer, and dollars to donuts Bushnell will handle repairs.