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RBruce Ex Member	Looking for info ona vintage brass scope Nov 5^th, 2012 at 10:37am	Print Post
	Here are photos of a scope I purchased several years ago. I never found out what it is. Any ideas of who the manufacturer might be? Would this be appropriate for my 1871 Buffalo rifle? It is 18.25 inches long, brass, and the only markings are 8-X and the parrallax scale. --TIA


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Crown-C Oldtimer Offline Posts: 500 Location: St. Marys Kansas Joined: Apr 6^th, 2009	Re: Looking for info ona vintage brass scope Reply #1 - Nov 5^th, 2012 at 11:19am	Print Post
	RBruce, Looks just like my Winchester 8-X. I am not a scope expert, but I understand 8-X is the only marking on them. I seem to remember some may have Winchester stamped on the front mount, mine doesn't. Richard

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RBruce Ex Member	Re: Looking for info ona vintage brass scope Reply #2 - Nov 5^th, 2012 at 12:29pm	Print Post
	Any idea of the value? I want to have a scope option for my reproduction 1871 Buffalo rifle, but if this is valuable, I'd rather get a repro scope. --TIA


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frnkeore Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 7324 Location: Central Point, OR 97502 Joined: Jun 16^th, 2010	Re: Looking for info ona vintage brass scope Reply #3 - Nov 5^th, 2012 at 1:21pm	Print Post
	Don't use that scope on a heavy recoiling rifle. They are made for 22rf use only and came on the Winchester Mod 75. They have nice optics and I like mine. I may put mine on a 25/20ss but, nothing of more power than that. As for the value, they sell for $200 - 300 on Ebay, yours is well warn so, I would put a value of $200 - 240. Frank

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frnkeore Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 7324 Location: Central Point, OR 97502 Joined: Jun 16^th, 2010	Re: Looking for info ona vintage brass scope Reply #4 - Nov 5^th, 2012 at 1:42pm	Print Post
	One more thing about your scope........... They take a different scope block than Lyman or Unertl. it looks like yours has been sqeezed down onto that type block. When you do that, you loose a lot of widgage adjustment as you can probably see. If the steel in the rear mount has been bent by that, it needs to be expanded back out to 1/2" between the clamping surfaces. The front blocks are wider than Unertl too and I think they will need the same treatment. Frank

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Bent_Ramrod Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1469 Location: Southern Arizona Joined: Feb 8^th, 2006	Re: Looking for info ona vintage brass scope Reply #5 - Nov 5^th, 2012 at 2:45pm	Print Post
	According to Campbell, those scopes were made for Winchester by the Carolyn Manufacturing Co. The Winchester name was only on the box. Carolyn was located at 50 E. 11th St. in New York City. I have a Carolyn "Marksman" scope, which looks nothing like the Winchester offering, in the original box, without mounts.


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digitall423 Oldtimer Offline Posts: 747 Location: Mexico Beach, FL Joined: Aug 5^th, 2005	Re: Looking for info ona vintage brass scope Reply #6 - Nov 6^th, 2012 at 6:37am	Print Post
	Steve Earle has scope blocks for the Winchester scope. Bill


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