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My New Fecker
Jun 16th, 2025 at 8:01pm
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I picked this up at a Flee market 3 days ago. I wasn't sure what I had, at the time.

It turns out that it's a Fecker 16" Small Game scope #6543, standard turrets, with a Litschert 1 1/2" booster on it and is 21 13/16" long.

It has excellent optics, with fine X hairs and is over 10X, in power. I've got to compare it with some of my other scopes.

Sorry about the clearity of the pictures but, it was the best I could do, for now.
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Re: My New Fecker
Reply #1 - Jun 17th, 2025 at 2:36pm
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Has anyone ever seen a SG Fecker, with a booster on it?
  
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Re: My New Fecker
Reply #2 - Jun 17th, 2025 at 5:20pm
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Is the booster marked Litschert Frank? I have a very strange Fecker scope that's not center adjustment like I usually see on full sized Fecker scopes. Mine is 24" long, and marked JW Fecker on the focal housing, but no marking on the bell. I'm sure it's not a Small Game version as it's too long. found it last year at the Greeley Co. gun show.
I've seen lots of scopes with Litschert adapters, but most were small 4x Lyman or Wollensak scopes.
  
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Reply #3 - Jun 17th, 2025 at 6:53pm
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Yes, my booster is marked Litschert.

I've been doing a little research since I got it and the only Fecker that I could find, that didn't have the center adjustment, was the Small Game. The SG where available from 10 to 18" long, up to 4x.

The Woodchucker, has a center adjustment and a bell they were 16 3/4 or 17" long and up to 7x.

If yours has the 2 screws on the side, just back of the Pope rib, it's probably a SG with a longer bell or ocular housing, than I have.

BTW, I did some testing of mine, today. A fixed Weaver 8x was a lot less magnification and my 15x Litschert was more. I set my Leuplod 6 1/2 x 20, at 12x and it looked the same. So, I'm calling it 12x.


  
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Reply #4 - Jun 17th, 2025 at 7:16pm
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Vall, how long is your bell and ocular housing?

Mine is 4 1/2 and 2 5/8.

I measured my tube and it's the 16" long SG scope and not the 18" that I assumed. So, if you add another 2" to mine, it will be right there with your 24" scope.

Also, does yours have the standard turrets or the click turrets?
  
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Re: My New Fecker
Reply #5 - Jun 17th, 2025 at 8:12pm
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My tube is 17" long, and the objective bell is 6 7/8" long with  1.75" diameter bell. The mounts are click adjustable. The ocular housing is 2 3/16" long.
I'm certain this is all Fecker, and not a SG with Litschert adapter. I have a friend whose got a huge collection of all kinds of old scopes, and he thinks this is some protype Fecker played with without the center adjustment and instead like Unertl or Lyman's Objective adjustment. Mounts are Fecker, but don't have the Fecker stamped large on them, instead it's stamped very small and barely readible without a light to see. Serial number is 4276. Scope length might be even longer if the objective is cranked out further, as it's at zero mark now.

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Re: My New Fecker
Reply #6 - Jun 17th, 2025 at 8:48pm
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Since we're on the topic of my favorite target scope maker James W. Fecker, here's a very good article from the 24 Hour Campfire by Clarence Anderson:

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Reply #7 - Jun 18th, 2025 at 4:17am
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Vall, if the screws on the sides of the tube, cover a rectangular slot, in the tube, it would have to be a SG tube, as that is the objective adjustment for the SG.
  
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Re: My New Fecker
Reply #8 - Jun 18th, 2025 at 9:49am
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frnkeore wrote on Jun 18th, 2025 at 4:17am:
Vall, if the screws on the sides of the tube, cover a rectangular slot, in the tube, it would have to be a SG tube, as that is the objective adjustment for the SG.

There is no slot under the screws and small metal plates. They likely just hold one of the cells. Objective is adjusted just like most non Fecker scopes are.
The tube is really longer than any Fecker SG I've seen.
  
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