Thread: Swaro refurbish

Hiya recently brought back a swaro I owned it’s well used but still sharp as to look through apart from chip in glass (if you don’t focus on it can’t see ) my question is would it be worth refinishing it or just use as is ? Cheers



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Use it

Do the deer fall over when you shoot at em?.............................use it! Good quality older scope, will last for years.

Hah hah. It's not the only "bad habicht" you have got. Buying and selling Tikkas' and Sakos' is another one.

That old piece of junk

Give it to me and I will throw it away for you

Nothing wrong with honorable battle scars

It is a cool little scope was more thinking the lenses and what cost might be


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Originally Posted by Tahr

Hah hah. It's not the only "bad habicht" you have got. Buying and selling Tikkas' and Sakos' is another one.

Booooooo

Too expensive to restore in relation to what it‘s worth! Use it!

Perfect scope for a 3006

Dam, that's just what I need for my BLR. Time to start looking.

The last time I sent my Nova 2.2-9 back through the agent (with a chipped lens on the front,, but like yours) to Swarovski was about 35 years ago. It was gone for about 6 months and cost a small fortune for the repair (like about $500 for a $1600 scope, in 1980's money) and involved lots of bureaucratic nonsense around specific carrier/insurance (because Germany and NZ don't have a postal agreement). The insurance company paid for it; after 2 years of pointing out that a scope lens is not a window; solved when I was told by a helpful insider to call it a fluoro element. In other words, unless it is an insurance job, it is not worth it.

Originally Posted by rupert

The last time I sent my Nova 2.2-9 back through the agent (with a chipped lens on the front,, but like yours) to Swarovski was about 35 years ago. It was gone for about 6 months and cost a small fortune for the repair (like about $500 for a $1600 scope, in 1980's money) and involved lots of bureaucratic nonsense around specific carrier/insurance (because Germany and NZ don't have a postal agreement). The insurance company paid for it; after 2 years of pointing out that a scope lens is not a window; solved when I was told by a helpful insider to call it a fluoro element. In other words, unless it is an insurance job, it is not worth it.

Cheers thank you


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That question of do I or don’t I will be niggling you for some time.

I’d make the enquiry through the NZ agent and/or Swarovski directly to gauge whether it’s feasible or not.

No harm in asking.

If it's more than 30 years old, Swaro won't touch.