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Does anybody know who made the old Herters Scopes?

btt

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.

erich

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.

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

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.

erich

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?

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.

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!