Your favorite hunting optic

[Random 8]

Favorite scope I've ever had is sadly no longer with me. It was a fixed 4 power 30mm scope from a German maker, likely from the 1960s. Can't remember the maker's name, but it was Westphalia something or other. It had a heavy tapered vertical post that extended 1 MOA above a thinnish tapered crosshair. It was a very well thought out reticle pattern. Very natural to aim on standing or moving targets. The thing was almost like having night vision with the 30mm tube and 42mm objective, and that heavy post showed up clearly even in very low light.. Had it on my old Rem 788 which was my first deer rifle, and many a deer fell to that rifle and scope. Got it from an uncle who had purchased it while in the Service in Germany and never taken it out of the box (he preferred iron sights). It suffered a severe impact (as did several portions of my anatomy) on a hunt in Northern MN when I slid down a rock face, and it never held zero or kept out the moisture after that.

Now I stick with Burris FF2s. They've held up to rugged service for me, and do what I need them to do, but I'm still always scanning the gunshow benches for another random maker German scope with that reticle. I think I'd have to step up to Euro glass or the higher end Leupolds to beat what the Burris's do for me, and at 3x the price tag, unless I get lucky and find another vintage German scope in good condition.

 

[d2wing]

My favorites are Leupold, For awhile I liked Weaver Grand Slam scopes for the money. Today I was working on a Walmart closeout Remington 700 that came with a scope. I tried to take off the turrent cover and the whole turrent came off. I had a Leupold VX 2 I recently bought That I was thinking about using on this rifle anyway so I mounted it and bore sighted it.