MarineTech
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A good friend of mine recently came into possession of an absolutely beautiful old custom rifle. His grandfather had it built up from a Mauser action in the 50s. It's a 257 Roberts with a birds-eye maple stock that can only be described as absolutely stunning. He's taken it to a gunsmith who certified it fit to fire with all current ammunition except +P.
After a weekend of cleaning years of old fouling out of the barrel, we took it to the range and it will still hold 1 1/4" at 100 yards with factory ammo. We also have his grandfather's old reloading logs and can see the rifle would hold groups under an inch with the right loads. We have to hand it to the old guy, he kept very meticulous records and we even have targets with the old groups for various loads.
My friend Jim wants to use the rifle for whitetail and varmint hunting, but the problem is the scope mounted on the rifle. It's an older Lyman Alaskan scope on a quick detach mount that was threaded to accept a magnifier. Over the years, some unknown yellow foreign substance has worked it's way into the body of the scope and covers about 2/3rds of the sight picture. The magnifier is fine, but it pretty much renders the scope unusable for hunting purposes.
Jim's looking for options here. He wants to keep the mount and rings that are on the rifle. Does anybody currently produce a scope with a 7/8" tube any more (a quick google search didn't turn up anything)? Is there someplace the scope can be shipped for a professional disassembly and cleaning? Final option would be, I suppose, to cruise eBay or gunbroker and try to find a similar scope being sold, but there's no guarantee that we can find one or that it'll be in any better shape.
Any suggestions are much appreciated.
After a weekend of cleaning years of old fouling out of the barrel, we took it to the range and it will still hold 1 1/4" at 100 yards with factory ammo. We also have his grandfather's old reloading logs and can see the rifle would hold groups under an inch with the right loads. We have to hand it to the old guy, he kept very meticulous records and we even have targets with the old groups for various loads.
My friend Jim wants to use the rifle for whitetail and varmint hunting, but the problem is the scope mounted on the rifle. It's an older Lyman Alaskan scope on a quick detach mount that was threaded to accept a magnifier. Over the years, some unknown yellow foreign substance has worked it's way into the body of the scope and covers about 2/3rds of the sight picture. The magnifier is fine, but it pretty much renders the scope unusable for hunting purposes.
Jim's looking for options here. He wants to keep the mount and rings that are on the rifle. Does anybody currently produce a scope with a 7/8" tube any more (a quick google search didn't turn up anything)? Is there someplace the scope can be shipped for a professional disassembly and cleaning? Final option would be, I suppose, to cruise eBay or gunbroker and try to find a similar scope being sold, but there's no guarantee that we can find one or that it'll be in any better shape.
Any suggestions are much appreciated.
