El Paso Weaver scopes?

[RED]

I have 4 El Paso Weaver scopes on various rifles with calibers from .22LR to 30-06. I find their optics and durability to equal new scopes that cost many times more. I guess I am a bottom feeder and cannot justify spending $800 to $2,000 for a scope to put on a $600 (or less) rifle.

To me (in my cheapskate world) what works for me is OK. I am not trying to impress anybody at the hunting camp but I think those guys with those Zeiss, Steiner, Schmidt Bender, et al, high dollar scopes and their exotic European rifles are.

Could somebody (anybody) tell me why I'm wrong??

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[Bill H]

I too have several old Weaver scopes, but I do not use them on serious hunting rifles due to the very fine reticules.

As far as optical quality, they are ok, but the lenses are not coated, so light transmission suffers.

[218bee]

I've worked on some old Weaver scopes...The internals are ALL steel & brass. (up till the 1970's at least..)...No garbage plastic or teflon...I'm with you, Red.....I like em' too...



218bee...

[jjroth]

Work.

Have a K1.5 for slug use, since 1979. Put the mount on the shotgun and two sighters with whatever correct I set to go.

Bought an M88 that had a K3 on it, sent to the El Paso shop that redoes the Weavers,
clean her up an put in a new reticle.

Look at the original KT & T series target scopes on the auctions, not bad for an old design.

[Gaffer]

I have many scopes with Weavers, Redfields, Leupolds, Burris, Simmons. Tasco, BSA, Lyman, Unertl and a couple of others. It doesn't matter who makes them as long as they shoot to where they are pointed. I like Weavers and still have them in several rifles. Good scopes!

[shooterg]

Had a couple repaired by Larry Mahan in El Paso. Understand he's retired now.
I like my old steel tube Made in USA Weavers !

[Redhand]

I have alot of Weavers and like them alot. I have a Weaver V-9-W that has some kind of spackling on the inner lense that looks like it got some type of chemical in it that settled on the lense. It is a great scope but it needs cleaned up. Can anyone recommend a source for this type of repair also when Weaver was repairing their scopes were the repairs expensive?

[Vern Humphrey]

You're not wrong. My dad used a Weaver K2.5 on his 99 Savage. He killed, among other game, a tiger in Sumatra in the '30s, and a slew of African plains game in Etheopia in the '40s. I have two Weavers myself, a K2.5 on a shotgun safety Ruger M77 and a K6 on a Kimber M82 in .22 Hornet.

I like Weavers, and I like fixed power scopes.

[Litt'le Lee]

his phone no. was915-593-1005--Larry Mahan was the street he was on

[KenK]

I have alot of Weavers and like them alot. I have a Weaver V-9-W that has some kind of spackling on the inner lense that looks like it got some type of chemical in it that settled on the lense. It is a great scope but it needs cleaned up. Can anyone recommend a source for this type of repair also when Weaver was repairing their scopes were the repairs expensive?

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