American_Fusilier
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Some time ago I was lucky enough to inherit my great grandpa's hunting rifle.
It's an old beat up Remington 760 Gamemaster in 30-06. My great grandpa was a wild and tough guy, who hunted and fished his whole life and lived to be 99 1/2 years old. He's been gone for 10 years already. I had the privilege to grow up with him in my life.
Anyway, this rifle was rode hard and put away wet. The finish is almost completely gone from the wood.
He had mounted a cool old scope on it. A Bushnell Scopechief IV 2.75x scope. It's got this cool feature where you could rotate part of the ocular bell and a thick post would show up on the bottom vertical line of the reticle, for quick target acquisition. You could rotate it the other way and the thicker post would fold back down as the reticle would become a regular crosshairs again.
I took the rifle to the range the other day to make sure it was zeroed, because I'd love to get a deer with it.
I hadn't fired the gun in years, and when I took it out at the 100 yards range, and looked through the optic, it was real blurry and hazy, and I could barely make out the target.
I think the inert gas from the scope has long since either dissipated or leaked out.
So I begrudgingly decided to put a new optic on it. The scope rings/base is real weird and you can't adjust it. I tried mounting a cheap Simmons 8-point scope to it, but the rear iron sight got in the way. Then I remembered I have an old Hi-Power 2.5x scope that actually looks a lot like the Scopechief. Which is good, as I didn't want to change the rifle at all, but the new scope keeps the look the same and allows me to actually use the rifle again.
I don't know anything about Hi-Power scopes, so I don't know if it's a good scope or not, I got it at a gun show years ago, and had it on a 22 since I got it.
Anyway, the rifle is useable again and still looks like how my great grandpa kept it. Now I just need to get a deer with it!
It's an old beat up Remington 760 Gamemaster in 30-06. My great grandpa was a wild and tough guy, who hunted and fished his whole life and lived to be 99 1/2 years old. He's been gone for 10 years already. I had the privilege to grow up with him in my life.
Anyway, this rifle was rode hard and put away wet. The finish is almost completely gone from the wood.
He had mounted a cool old scope on it. A Bushnell Scopechief IV 2.75x scope. It's got this cool feature where you could rotate part of the ocular bell and a thick post would show up on the bottom vertical line of the reticle, for quick target acquisition. You could rotate it the other way and the thicker post would fold back down as the reticle would become a regular crosshairs again.
I took the rifle to the range the other day to make sure it was zeroed, because I'd love to get a deer with it.
I hadn't fired the gun in years, and when I took it out at the 100 yards range, and looked through the optic, it was real blurry and hazy, and I could barely make out the target.
I think the inert gas from the scope has long since either dissipated or leaked out.
So I begrudgingly decided to put a new optic on it. The scope rings/base is real weird and you can't adjust it. I tried mounting a cheap Simmons 8-point scope to it, but the rear iron sight got in the way. Then I remembered I have an old Hi-Power 2.5x scope that actually looks a lot like the Scopechief. Which is good, as I didn't want to change the rifle at all, but the new scope keeps the look the same and allows me to actually use the rifle again.
I don't know anything about Hi-Power scopes, so I don't know if it's a good scope or not, I got it at a gun show years ago, and had it on a 22 since I got it.
Anyway, the rifle is useable again and still looks like how my great grandpa kept it. Now I just need to get a deer with it!
