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Old 05-14-2018, 10:07 AM
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mrbb
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well something Time related for that era, actually would have been a Tasco, , better quality would have been a Weaver, and then the leupold,bushnell, redfields and some other older company's.
back then it would have been most likely been a FIXED power scope too, a 4x was most common, and in something like a 4x32 mm model
variable power scopes didn;t really take off IMO till mid to late 80's when all the makers started wars with making them and the SO called best LOW light scope, was the big fad back in the late 80's
see thru mounts were also a BIG crazy back then, due to scopes had a rep of failing
so guys/shooters wanted peace of mind to be able to still shoot if the scope fogged up or got damaged some other way, scope's fogging was rather common issue, as few decent FAST removable scope caps were about, about late 80's the butler creek like flip open caps came about due to this issue, the older tasco's used to have a slip over cap that had one yellow like color lens on the objective side, and a clean on the eye side, and then elastic bands holding the two together, I cannot tell you how many guys would come into gun store and ask for replacement caps, as they would see a deer, hurry take caps off and loose them,
smarter guys I knew would tape them on scope mid way on the elastic bands to keep them handy
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