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Now from the cheap seats. I've moved to higher powers because I shoot more target, varmint now that age is creeping up on me. Still, I just acquired a bushnell 1-6x 24 aluminated dot with two hash marks below spaced at 2 moa each. It's on my coyote gun, should work good for runners in front of the hounds,or semi long shots standing out at oh 300yds. I had a 1-8x32? vortex on it before with that aluminated circle, dot, extra cross hairs below but they were spaced out for a certain 223 load & didn't match my loads. Before for deer up here in Ontario (brush) I always used 1-4.5 or the bosh & Lomb 1.5 6 set on 1.5x! Same for Moose. As someone else on here says my two cents worth. GWP. 🐾👣🐾👣🇨🇦

Wonder if Leupold will ever make another straight tube 1-4 or 1.5-4 without a funky cluttered up reticle.

I get that the market is smaller for those scopes and that "woods hunting" or short range scopes with enough elevation and windage tic marks to take your .30-30 or .350 Legend out to 500 yards are all the rage these days, but couldn't they produce a new run with plain old duplex reticles, even if just for old time's sake? Please?


There are always a few of the old 1-4 straight tube scopes on ebay as well as some good old gloss M8 4x models but they are either 50+ years old (no prefix or suffix) or as noted already folks are getting real proud of them.

Thanks, that's one but I guess I should add "simplicity" to the criteria. Just something to set once and then use within the rifle's PBR.

There's a matte finish VX-1 on ebay that looks interesting and isn't terribly overpriced; also a few of the older gloss finish 1-4 models but folks want $400 and up for those. Just kind of wishful thinking here that new ones were still offered.

Great conversation. I love my 1-4 x 24 and 1-6x24 scopes. I have 3. One on a 350 legend. One on a .357 mag 77/357 and one waiting to mount. I have several 3-9x40 and find them ok, but don’t turn them up over 4-6 power unless I’m shooting paper. I have 3 2-7 x scopes as well. One is a Leupold European on a 7.62x39. Love it. Two are Burris with slightly longer eye relief. I am moving toward these scopes more often, but I constantly hear, “you need more scope on that rifle”. I haven’t had an issue with scopes in the 4x range.

Sometimes things just fall into your lap.

I put that VX-1 1-4 with a good ol' plain duplex reticle on my watchlist and the seller sent a private offer for a big discount that put it into the "very reasonable" range, so I accepted the offer and it's on the way. Looks to be very lightly used, no ring marks at all.

Of course, that tells me it would be hard to sell if I ever wanted to, but I've learned to hang onto stuff like this since you never know what use you'll find for it - other than the immediate use it will have sitting on a Ruger 1A .250 Savage.