Not me!!! Especially for a 10X. But, I also wouldn't come even close to paying $1500 - $2000 for a 1" Unertl, no matter if it was a like new 36X

Nothing against the scopes, at all but, I just think they are over priced, in general. I can't see the 3/4" scopes being any better than a STS. I'd love to buy low and sell high on them though 

Frank

I live in Canada where the prices for everything is higher.  I have two Unertl scopes, one 18x, and one 20x.  They are in good but not exellent condition.  One cost me $800 and one $750.  Those seem to be average prices up here.   

Chris.

I don't know if I'd pay $900 for a scope.  But I would tell myself 2 things before making that decision.
   
The first, it is only money.   

The next, I'm going to be dead a very long time.

These 2 things seem to help me decide if I really want something.  Frank M.

Gentleman, it is all relevant. I paid a hundred dollars for a ten power Unertl twenty years ago. I have bought them for less. How much is that hundred worth today. Inflation is killing us. I have three Lyman STS scopes and I can't see any difference in them and the two Unertls I have. I bought A very heavy barreled Winchester 52 once just to get the Unertl one inch scope on it. I sold the rifle and kept the scope and I have never used it but I was shocked, shocked I tell you when I saw one at gun show for fourteen hundred dollars. I have a one inch Tasco 6-18 power that uses the same type mounts and bases and it has optics that are second to none. One way to look at it, if you want and old style Lyman or Unertl is, you can't buy a new one.

It's a lot more than inflation for the Unertl. In 1974, the STS sold for $145 and the Target 1 1/2" Unertl sold for $121 only the 2" ($168) and the 1" Programer ($222) sold for more than the STS. You can by a Target Spot or a STS for 1/2 to 2/3's the price of a 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 Unertl. I think the 2" Target and programer made the Unertl name but, all the rest of the line, benefited from it.

That 1 1/4 Target Unertl sold for $104 in '74. Inflation says that a STS should sell for $1255 if the 1 1/4 Unertl sells for $900.



Frank

Yes and the same reason that the Winchester A5's sell for so much. Not to mention the Lyman Alaskan and 330 Weavers.

Frank

I must have fifteen or twenty sniper scopes. 


         Joe.

Ray_Newman wrote on Dec 7^th, 2013 at 7:13pm:


Not 30 years ago.  By the time production ended in the '90s, there was no direct competition from Feckers or Lymans.

Here's the last price list I received. 

westerner wrote on Dec 7^th, 2013 at 5:53pm:


Notify the "Doomsday Preppers" show; they might put you in prime time.

And a couple Civil War sniper scopes, come to think of it. 

         Joe.

westerner wrote on Dec 7^th, 2013 at 5:53pm:


Including one of these?

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The obvious fact that the scope does not at all match the illustration pasted in the box, or that the A5 tube has been fitted to Lyman mounts, won't trouble the sniper-nuts who'll be bidding--they don't sweat the small stuff.

The tube itself was originally part of a bore-scope--the scraped metal adjacent to the eyepiece was the location of a tightly-fitted brass bushing; the small, drilled spot in the tube wall accommodated a set-screw.  All this is clearly visible in the illustration.

Tommy," Please tell me what you payed for you single shots years ago. Can you still buy them for that today??" 
A very good point. I went to "acquisition  mode" about 15 years ago, when I had a real job (not that retirement is a bad job). I had in mind that after I retired, it wouldn't be as easy to write a check for a few grand for a single shot rifle. As it turns out that strategy has worked out rather nicely. I realize now that in most cases the guns and scopes I've collected are worth more than today's money. I've also learned to keep in mind how much it would cost to replace something before I sell it. Now I only sell things in order to fund new toys. I have two scopes that will be going on e-pay soon to fund the new DZ Arms 8x scope that I can't live without..... how many scopes do I need ? , just one more.

tommyauger wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:31pm:


Everyone complains about inflation, which of course has many causes (chiefly the reckless printing of money), but one of the lesser causes has got to be the refusal of most of this country's population to say "NO!--the price is too high and I won't pay it!"  (Like, for example, the Japanese are said to do.) I'm no better at practicing self-denial than anybody else, but try, at least, not to trick myself with easy rationalizations.  Buying today because you fear the price will be higher tomorrow is the classic recipe for out of control price spirals.  (Like all those home-buyers who HAD to have the McMansion, then ended up after the recession "under water"; they got exactly what they deserved.)

I can tell you how to handle this, if you want the gun or scope and it costs too much deal with the fellow and get the best deal you can and buy it. Then do what you need to get the new worn off and put it in the back of the safe and forget about how much it cost. A couple of years later it will be worth more than you paid for it. The way things are going with our government right now it may not take that long because every time I go to buy something I bought last week the price has gone up. Problem solved.

"Mighty sweet music to the ears of all the gun dealers". 
This is one of the reasons why antique guns have become good investments. I've done pretty well selling some of the guns and scopes I bought years ago, very much better than if I had put the money in a bank at 1-2% interest.

"Unertl that's in nice shape less expensive than the high dollar American made Scopes and will always re-sell for what it cost"

There you go, buy it - use it - then sell it for what you paid and maybe even make money on it - sounds like a good plan to me.