AZshot wrote on Jan 1
st, 2017 at 7:37am:
Actually, when I heard they were starting a new sub-match, allowing scopes at all, I was pretty surprised. I'm glad they cannot be modern, tactical mil-dot types (which I seem to see being used in "schuetzen benchrest" today.
But if a Targetspot or any similar scope is allowed, that most certainly
IS a "modern" scope, even rendered clickless, relative to the 1870-90 era. Clearly, the "no-click" rule is a fig-leaf contrived to disguise the obvious fact that modern scopes
are being allowed, but, he-he, let's everyone pretend we don't notice.
If scopes are going to be permitted in what's
supposed to be a vintage-eqpt. competition (which, being blind as Mr. Magoo, I support wholeheartedly), than they ought to be reasonably faithful repros of scopes commonly in use in that time period, which means full barrel-length scopes, and also UN-coated lenses. Yes, such scopes would be damned hard to come by today, except for what remains around of those ugly and crude brass tube Navy Arms scopes, or the good, but even scarcer, scopes put together by Lyman for Ruger's Centennial model. However, if there was a even a small market for such scopes, some maker like MVA would, I'll bet, step up to the plate. Can you believe that repros of the miserable Weaver 330 are now being mfg. in China for use on all the fake '03A4 sniper rifles that now have a match of their own at Camp Perry?