Thread: Modern scopes on older rifles

Originally Posted by gundoc

My deer hunting rifle is a .30/06 Husqvarna 1600 (commercial M98 action) of 1950's vintage, fitted with an East German (pre 1990) Zeiss 8x50 in steel Burris mounts. I have had it for many years and it is still in very tidy order and shoots 1-1.5 MOA with factory ammo. The scope has a heavy 3 post reticle but it is a cracker for fast acquisition and optically excellent and I wouldn't consider changing it. Sometimes new is not always better.

Going from trademe $1 reserve specials to something that I can actually see through was called for lol.
I mean 1 was a Nikko Sterling and the other a Superstrike. Both had glass similar to a beer bottle found in the sand at the beach.