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Redfield Scopes

bill2740bill2740 Member Posts: 886 ✭✭✭✭
edited April 2002 in Ask the Experts
Can anyone tell me who works on vintage Redfield USA made scopes? Appreciate any info.. Terrill.
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  • bill2740bill2740 Member Posts: 886 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Have a friend who has a chance to get a rifle with a 3x9x40 redfield scope on it..

    Does anyone have one how good are they he's asking me im telling him to buy burris lol

    all i have is burris scopes....

    Harleeman1030@aol.com

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  • bill2740bill2740 Member Posts: 886 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Were older Redfield scopes made in the U.S.A.?
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  • bill2740bill2740 Member Posts: 886 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have 2 redfield scopes that have 200-600 yrd rangefinders in them and a set of bracket crosshairs in the top of the view area, my question is what is the distance that they represent to determine the yardage and when you turn the power setting to fit the target inside those crosshairs does it automatically raise the main crosshair to compensate for bullet drop at the yardage shown in the lower right corner. Example top hairs equal 20in and target gets magnified to 10power showing 400yrds to fit the target in the top crosshairs, can you just point and shoot with the main crosshair or do you have to know how much hold over is needed.
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  • bill2740bill2740 Member Posts: 886 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Redfield 6-18X40AO Gold-5 Star.Any quality issues with these scopes.Will they take a beating from a 300 Win Mag?Thank you much
    Bill
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  • bill2740bill2740 Member Posts: 886 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Over 20 years ago I slipped in a fresh snow storm while deer hunting in upstate New York, tried to protect my pre64 Mod70 fwt and broke my 1-4x Redfield Scope in half where it is threaded at rear eyepiece, when it hit a rock.I sent it to Denver and those wonderful people sent me back a brand new in the box 1 3/4-5x widefield(some call TV view)in 2days.I continued on with hunting season and got my buck that year. Yesterday an elderly gentleman on E-Bay sold the exact same scope for over $162. In 1989 I believe he paid $186 for it.What a testament for this scope and Redfield. I was hopeing I could afford a spare. In my own personal opinion this scope was/is the best one ever made for deerhunting in the Eastern United States, possibly for dangerous game also.I miss this great USA Co. What say ye?
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  • bill2740bill2740 Member Posts: 886 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Does anyone know if redfield still honor the lifetime warranty on thier old scopes "before they were bought out" i have a 3-9x50 thats got blurry all of a sudden...thanks in advance
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  • toolman9mmtoolman9mm Member Posts: 337 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    how do i tell what model my redfield scope is. its a 4-12 with a/o but i don't see anything else but redfield on it. thanks tom
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  • boltactionboltaction Member Posts: 505 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    have had a redfield 6-18-40 since 1972 on 25-06. never had a problem. been eveywhere with it.The new redfield's are being made oversea's japan I think.American Rifleman had test on them said they were good quality made scopes.
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  • 11echo11echo Member Posts: 1,007 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm NOT a big fan of Redfield scopes! The ones I've deal with always "feel" like they were dipped in sand before assembly. That and when your trying to adjust there scope, it doesn't seem very responsive, so you have to "walk" the scope to zero. I'll take a Leupold any day! My 2 cents, Good Luck! ...Mark
    "FEAR the Goverment, that fears your ARMS"
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My money is on Burris. Warrenty says "Forever." Great optics, good coatings, well made. Redfield is an also ran.
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  • bill2740bill2740 Member Posts: 886 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks guys. If the Redfields are Jappers, I shall buy a Burris or a Leupold.
    Bill
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  • chuckchuck Member Posts: 4,911
    edited November -1
    Hey Bill, I own 6 leuoples scopes and I do a lot of shooting with Mag Rifles and have found that they will hold togeather for about 200 rounds, and then I send them in for repairs and they come back with in a week and a half. no questions asked. In the past year I have had 4 go bad. I am on a fixed income and refuse to pay over a $1000.00 for a scope, I am now trying out B&L scopes, have not tryed them enough to see if they are any better. GOOD LUCK
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Chuck give the Burris a try. Schmidt and Bender are a little rich for my budget too, but the Burris scopes are really good for their price.
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  • chestspringschestsprings Member Posts: 30 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have 4 burris,(3 signatures, 1 compact), & 3 leupold var-x III. the leupold are more compact,& lighter, but the burris's are a lot clearer/brighter. The problem seems to be that people don't focus scopes for THERE EYES when they install them. You should go to a store & look thru them both-buy the one that makes you happy.
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  • chuckchuck Member Posts: 4,911
    edited November -1
    Hey He Dog I got a burris had to send it back for repairs, went bad on a 338 Mag, they repaired it free of charge, took 3 weeks to get it back, have not put it on any thing yet, so don't know if it is fixed or not.
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