Mine is a Nikko Stirling night eater on my m96 Sporter. they have been together 12+ years..
Mine is a Nikko Stirling night eater on my m96 Sporter. they have been together 12+ years..
my old 788 .308 Remington had a 2.5 leupold on it from around 1980 until 2022 now has a 2-7 leupold but this not fair some of us oldies will win this hands down my old .22 Brno new in 1976 sold 2022 has a 4 x Kassnar on it all the time I had it
32 years
Mine would be my Marlin 25N (.22LR BA) with a Tasco World Class 3-9x40
Got this new back in 1992. Still a tack driver with anyone else pulling the trigger. I'm a decidedly below average shooter.
In the centre with one of my homemade suppressors
Attachment 249868
Brno Model 2 with 4x Leupold since 1971
Attachment 249869
VXlll 2.5 - 8 coming up 30 years on the old mans Sako 270. Still going strong.
Probably my Tikka 223 with Delta Stryker.
It must be about 18 months now.
Leupold M8 4x on Winchester 70 for about 42 years. Still a good combination.
Apline 30.06 my first deer rifle purchased around 1980 which came with a Mikuko (ABC?) 4x40. Sold that rifle two years ago, still with the same scope. LOL Some people say I'm stuck in a rut......I'll need to think about that for a while......
Ive got the old mans Sako vixen, bought threw NZFS 1971. Still got the same k4 steel 4 power.
@Philipo what's your record? 1 week?
Sent from my SM-S916B using Tapatalk
JW15-Tasco Pronghorn 4x. Bought as a package 28 years ago now, and still shooting weekly. I wouldn’t swap it if someone offered a free Leupold.
Parker hale safari, with K4 weaver. I brought it from the original owner in 2020, he had had it from new in1964
My Sako A7 rem mag had a vortex viper on it for about 5years, sold the rifle and sold the scope about a year later.
I've had a 6.5 PRC for just over a year and it has worn 4 different scopes already :thumbsup:
for me about 24 hours :yaeh am not durnk:
We are talking scopes here, not rifles. :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by dannyb
22 years. VXii on my 308Win. Still going strong, used it the past weekend in a club comp and managed to win
My howa .308 has had the same nikon monarch 2-8x32 for about 5 years now. Probably the longest partnership I've ever had. To be fair I go through rifles more than scopes. The nikon has been on 2 or 3 other rifles over the last 15 years or so.
The old man has a 4x32 Nikko Stirling Gold Crown or whatever that is well over 40 years old... has never left the rifle once since he bought brand new.
.223 has worn a 3x9x50 vx111 for over 20 years..its been off it a few times to try another scope but always ends up back on rifle....its just too big to fit mounts on anything else and it just works so well it belongs there.
42 years for me just sold the riffle with the scope still attached
Bought my Ruger No1 in 220 Swift in the US in 1988 , fitted a Tasco 4-16 x 40 Target scope on it and its never been removed .
buy a better brandQuote:
Originally Posted by dannyb
new Leupold M8 4x32 on my new Sako lefthand battue 308 from 1986 till I sold it in the 2010 or there abouts
2-7x VX2 on my Ruger 270. Around 15 years or there abouts.
Start with a good scope and look after it. Regardless of how far you look or how hard you look through them, they don't seem to wear out. I have a 8x Zeiss on a .30-06 Husky that was a used but well-treated combo when I bought them over 40 years ago. It will continue to see me out, and be a good set-up for a young fellow after that.
Bushnell 2.75 bought about 1974 so about 50 years!
Still on the Gevarm .22 takes-down
33 years and counting.
47 years now for the Nikel Marburg on my BSA Martini.
Attachment 250004
That's a beautiful Sako in an excellent calibre. You obviously look after your gear. Nice.
I think I read about it in NZ guns or possibly Lentle & Saxton. A way of making a scope protector from used inner tube.
Basically the idea was to cut long strips of inner tube and wind them onto the body of the scope in a sort of spiral formation and you end up with a cheap 'rubber armoured' scope. I actually did this with the Tasco mentioned in page the first page of this thread, in the 28 years that the scope has been on the rifle, the rubber armour has only been taken off once, it was when I bought some flip up scope covers for it in 2013. The same rubber was wound back on in place and only needed new 'tie ins' (thin strips used like rubber bands to hold it in place near the turrets).
It is a trick I have used on other scopes since, and there have been a few moments where I was grateful for having done it.
Pecar 4x81 steel tube on my BRNO ZKK601 for 56 years
I didn’t manage quite as long with my Pecar- was 44yrs before I sold the .270 Monarch it was on. Barrel was rather“ tired”..
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
