PeskyWabbits 464 Posted January 6, 2017 Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 Open sights or a scope? Well using a scope is pretty much de rigueur these days. Especially as I reckon most new guns are designed for them and no longer have fittings or are supplied with open sights I got my first when it came with a second hand Hw35 and that is a Weaver 1.5 x 1" up till then I just used what came on the gun. Age (BSA Meteor bought off school friend for £15 when I was 16) and finances then just finances were the main reasons for staying with iron sights. Aren't we all so much better off these days? So what was your first telescopic sight? And for a bonus point, what was the gun it came with or the one you bought it for? Pesky Quote Link to post
stealthy1 3,964 Posted January 6, 2017 Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 When I got my first rifle. Quote Link to post
Rez 4,957 Posted January 6, 2017 Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 When I got my first rifle. + 1 Quote Link to post
PeskyWabbits 464 Posted January 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 My first new scope was an unbranded 3-9 x 50 off ebay and only about 4 years ago. After that I have been buying Hawkes: Eclipse, HD, Endurance. All s/h off ebay. Quote Link to post
philpot 4,928 Posted January 6, 2017 Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 1966 to go on a BSA Meteor .22 and a local farm manager gave three of us school boys permission to shoot rats on the potato dump,.................great days, I remember the three of us sitting on empty tin drums with a shared bottle of lemonade and a fag..................I will stop because I am starting to ramble..........yes it may be an age thing before you buggers comment. Funny, I can't remember what make the scope was but I think it might have been a Tasco. Phil 2 Quote Link to post
tomburras 2,721 Posted January 6, 2017 Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 About a week after I got my B2 the gunshop gave me a free scope when I baught a few tins of pellets. It was an unbranded 2×20 thing - I thaught it was the bees knees lol. Good times! Quote Link to post
The one 8,397 Posted January 6, 2017 Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 When I got my first rifle got the sling etc with it a complete package Quote Link to post
j j m 6,481 Posted January 6, 2017 Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 late 70s i think 4x32 cigar type Quote Link to post
si brown 8,486 Posted January 6, 2017 Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 about 85ish still at school... swapped a crap survival knife a throwing star and some porno mags for a meteor in.22 came with a crap scope that fogged up Quote Link to post
Jonjon79 13,340 Posted January 6, 2017 Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 I bought a BSA Mercury Challenger from a friend when I was a kid. I can't remember the make of scope but, it was a simple crosshair thing. I remember watching everything through it on summer afternoons. Quote Link to post
David Aiken 253 Posted January 7, 2017 Report Share Posted January 7, 2017 Would have been 1978. BSA I think? 4x20. Quote Link to post
mark williams 7,549 Posted January 7, 2017 Report Share Posted January 7, 2017 1976, was the first scope, a 4x15 bag of she - ite that had to be re- zeroed 3x per hunting trip, just awful My rifle was a Relum Tornado and after collecting a load of Baby Cham bottles off the tip we all shot on ( without permission) - I traded the bottles in at the local pub for £6-00 and my Dad took me to Worralls gunsmiths in Warrington where I bought a 4x20 bigger bag of she-ite . Then came the BSA Meteor, Then came the BSA Air Sporter -- open sights. Then the BSA Mercury, also open sights - and deadly accurate. Then the Feinwerkbau Sport 127 with a nikko 3-9x40 scope, - feck me did that take some vermin,- my mates were so envious. 2017, - 41 years later, Still have a FWB 127 and 124 in my hunting cabinet but not with a 4x15 or 4x20 bag of she-ite on top " Says a lot for the rifles though" 3 Quote Link to post
secretagentmole 1,701 Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 When I got my first rifle. Same here! Quote Link to post
villaman 9,980 Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Would have been 1978. BSA I think? 4x20. Same here ,had 5 years on open sights Quote Link to post
Furrosious ferreter 499 Posted January 10, 2017 Report Share Posted January 10, 2017 My mum and dad brought me my first gun when i was 14 in '98', cant remember what make it was, but it had these little sight things you could swap in the front sight. We have a family friend that had some land so i used to bike up the road and shoot cans and targets, with iron sights. I saved up and got a 3-9×40 smk (because there is one near me). For what seemed like ages. On the first trip out with it i took a mate, shooting cans at 10 meters, i ricoceted a pellet off a butler sink and it hit him in the leg, he told his dad i shot him, and my parents sold the gun. Bad times, i dont have him as a friend nowadays. FF 1 Quote Link to post
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