![]() ![]() ![]() The black rifle crowd at a range can’t figure out how to turn the red dot on. In the USA, Unertl, Leatherwood, and Weaver fixed power scopes were often used for sniping. Mine are mounted on only Rimfire rifles and are just plain fun to shoot and look at. For decades, precision rifles employed a fixed power scope. My friend had these scopes I have mounted on Ruger No.1’s and Winchester 52’s and swore by them in the Prairie Dog Towns of Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas. The USMC removed the spring on their 30-06 M70 Sniper Rifle because they believed that the recoil of the ‘06 put to much stress on the scope, making it a manual operation to return the scope to its stop after firing. You mentioned the need to pull the scope back into position, this is the purpose of the spring on sporting models. Fecker before going out on his own and starting Unertl, the history behind both companies is very interesting as Fecker started out building optical instruments for the military and then jumped into the scope world really revolutionizing sport optics IMO. You are correct about these scopes being a historical item! John Unertl worked for J.W. ![]()
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