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Reply #15 - Dec 20th, 2013 at 5:08pm
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Just bought this 24X Fecker--acutually, I bought a Remingonton ex military use 513T just to get the scope.  It IS marked 24X near the ring on the ocular.
Mechanically and glass are perfect, but some surface pitting on the bell at the top.  Serial # shows in the photo's.  It is the 1 3/4" so it is a Fecker Champion I believe judging by Stroebel's book.
Can anyone tell me if this is the standard ocular or a power boost ocular?
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Reply #16 - Dec 20th, 2013 at 5:11pm
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More Fecker photo's
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Reply #17 - Dec 21st, 2013 at 8:12am
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Longest Fecker I've seen.
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Reply #18 - Dec 21st, 2013 at 8:59am
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Looks like the Fecker in your photo is 29" long?
My 24X is 26" long--My Lyman STS 25X is 26 7/8" long.  Wondering if the Fecker in your photo is the 30X Champion?  They seem to run about 1" length per power of 1 (due to the technology at the time)
  
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Re: CPA Barrel Scopes - They All Have One
Reply #19 - Dec 21st, 2013 at 12:49pm
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Surprised that your 24X has a 1-3/4" objective--largest listed in late production catalogs is 1-5/8".

During Fecker's lifetime, a customer could have built almost any kind of custom scope he's was willing to pay for, but not those built by Fecker, Inc. (Yours looks like later production, but maybe not).
  
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Reply #20 - Dec 21st, 2013 at 1:10pm
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Longest Fecker I've seen.
And the first one I've seen with the power identified on the lock ring.

Steve - what is the serial number on your Fecker? Gives a hint when the scopes started to have the power stamped on them.  BTW - Congratulations finding this nice Fecker
  
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Reply #21 - Dec 21st, 2013 at 5:20pm
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Redsetter wrote on Dec 21st, 2013 at 12:49pm:
Surprised that your 24X has a 1-3/4" objective--largest listed in late production catalogs is 1-5/8".


Sorry, I mis-stated, it is a 1 5/8" objective--OD of the tube is 1 3/4". Ser. # 9955.  Any idea when it was made or who would know?
  
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Re: CPA Barrel Scopes - They All Have One
Reply #22 - Dec 21st, 2013 at 8:48pm
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Fecker scope # 10194 is NOT  marked as to power.  Supposted to be a 20 and does seem to be such.  That is the longest objective bell I have ever seen, in  person or in a picture.  The power  marked ring looks exactly like a lyman.
What is the highest Fecker anyone has observed?
       andy Z
Edit:      Sorry the above was from memory and incorrect.  10194 IS power marked.  The ring had been misassembled with the 20 on the bottem of the scope.  Now corrected. 
   In addition the scope is 26" long: the bell a mear 8  1/4".  A 1  5/8 objective
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Re: CPA Barrel Scopes - They All Have One
Reply #23 - Dec 21st, 2013 at 9:13pm
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Ser. # 9955.  Any idea when it was made or who would know?


Nobody "knows" because Fecker's records suffered the same fate as those of Stevens & other companies that were reorganized or bought out by larger corps.--that "useless" old paper went to the dump or the furnace.  Every scope produced while Fecker was alive left the factory with a DATED card on which was recorded the ser. no. & exact focusing adjustments for several different ranges.  (Because the adjustments wouldn't be the same even for identical scopes.)

I've seen a few of those cards & recorded the date & corresponding ser. no.  No. 10,393 was reached sometime in 1950, so you can make your own guess about #9950; probably the same year or the year before.
  
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