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Does anybody know who made the old Herters Scopes?
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I don't know who made them but I picked up a 1x4x20 off the bargin table down in Waseca. It was a great scope used it for years on a 270 carbine and then my dad used it on his 308. The reticle looked like a duplex but the bottom post went all the way to the crosshair and had a little point on it at the crosshair. Killed alot of deer in Northern MN and WI with it. Never had a problem with it in the 10yrs we used it. Traded it off on dads 308 when he wanted a lighter rifle.
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No matter who made it, if Herters sold it it was the world's finest, the only scope of choice for professional hunters and guides on eight or nine continents.... Man, I miss those days! Several years ago, for Christmas, my brother gave me a 1964 Herters catalog he bought off ebay. It's one of my treasures.
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Ya, everything was "Herters Model Perfect"... learned to read going through those classic Herters catalogs. Still have a down vest I bought from them in the middle 70's... Damn, I'm an old geezer! Filbert
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I had a Herters rifle, scope, down coat, numerous game calls(they all called game), rifle press, dies (still use some), a canoe(it's still ricing in NW WI) and some #4 coil spring trap(still have them, great beaver trap). Used alot of their Shotgun wads, rifle powder and bullets, even won a couple of club BR matches with them out of my 223. There 220 RN's were some of the best out of my 06 and they had good brass for reloading.
I don't remember getting any junk from them, some of there fishing lures seamed pretty cheesy but they caught fish. They had really nice gunstock walnut and really inexpensive, there was a whole wall of bins of blanks.
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I have a Herter's rifle and the scope is a 3-9 power, it has white lettering on the side that says "Vertical" I have googled it and I have found nothing that can tell me who maid this scope?
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This is what it says in "Old Rifle Scopes" by Nick Stroebel.
"Between 1968-78 George Herter imported several economy priced telescopic rifle sights, selling them through his sporting goods outlet in Waseca, Minn. All the cenrefire scopes offered a large variety of of dot and rangefinder reticles at a small increased cost......"
No info on where they came from or who made them.
Available were a
Perfect 1X 100 ft Field 2.75X 44 ft Field 4X 30 ft 6X 20 ft 8X 15.5 3-9X 41-14 4-12X 34-12.5
My own 1963 (No 73) Herters Catologue suggests that Herter also imported scopes earlier. Listed are 2.75, 4x33, 6x33, 8x33, 10x33,3-8x33,2.5-8x40, 5-13x40 and 3-9x40. Post and Crosshair and dot reticles avaiable.
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They also imported a line of 3/4 inch 22 scopes.
I have three Herters knives
The improved Bowie....very good The Bull Cooks Knife...a little paring/caping blade The Herter "invented" skinner ( a very poor copy of a Grohmann)
I also have one of the old catalogues. Pretty amusing prose!
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