Same here. I've always had a problem passing on an old Weaver with condition. I rounded them all up and put them in a data base a few years back. I was at a little over 100 and have added a few since then. By the time I decide to start selling no one will want them.
In earlier days those Weaver 2.5x1" and Redfield 2 3/4x were on all the .22s I plinked with. Now it's 4x16's and 6x24's off the bench.
Savage...never say "never". Rick...
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Same here. I've always had a problem passing on an old Weaver with condition. I rounded them all up and put them in a data base a few years back. I was at a little over 100 and have added a few since then. By the time I decide to start selling no one will want them.
In earlier days those Weaver 2.5x1" and Redfield 2 3/4x were on all the .22s I plinked with. Now it's 4x16's and 6x24's off the bench.
Oh I'm sure I'll want them. lol. I'm so addicted to these old things. I have a bunch of cardboard mailing tubes with the plastic end caps. Wrap them in packaging foam, put a desiccant pack in and label the outside. Stores them pretty well. Last count I had 73. I swap them around on different guns pretty frequently. Yes, I have no life.
I have way more scopes than mounts. Every time I spend a bunch on a vintage scope, the very next auction I see one for half the price, so I buy it to. My version of dollar cost averaging.
Pix of my Savage Model 99H Carbine c. 1938 emphasizing fasteners in Weaver/Stith scope setup. Taking advantage of the tang mount holes as securing the aft base as displacing the barrel aft sight dovetail forward. The scope is a Weaver and I'm guessing early postwar vintage. (I'd have preferred Lyman Alaskan!) An entirety, a neat package.
Hopefully 'visual' informative re Stith informative!
