25 replies to this topic

[CO204yoter]

so i went and made one stand tonight and called in a good lookin yote only to miss at 75 yards due to zero being lost

[youngdon]

What brand of scope do you have?

[bar-d]

A pain in the neck but it do happen. Happened to me last year.

[ReidRH]

Eeeaaasy there Man, I know its Real Aggravating But it Does happen to most of them at one time or another.

[CO204yoter]

yeah well i think i am gonna break down and get a leupold or maybe mortgage the house for a ziess

[RoughNeck]

I just got the yote scope yesterday and it is a little diffrent sightin in with the O instead of cross hairs but im likin it, and maybe it will help me bust some more yotes this year cause it worked great on prairy dogs

[lswoody]

Have never had it happen to me. But know several folks that it has. Interested in the scope brand my self.

[Toxic]

Leupold is the only scope I use, they are great on heavy recoil rifles also and the warrenty cant be beat. recoil is what kills cheap scopes

[ebbs]

I've had expensive scopes and cheap scopes. The expensive ones haven't lasted any longer or held zero any better than the cheap ones. It's just something that happens one time or another. What brand lost zero for you CO204yoter?

[CO204yoter]

i would rather not say because of the cheep ness of it lol my other scope has never lost zero and is a barska

[catcapper]

Its O.K. 204---The guys won't pick on ya too much---you can say Trashco on PT.lol.

[bar-d]

I still have a few Tasco scopes mounted and they do fine for me. The last scope I had trouble with was a Bushnell. ANY scope can go bad, not just Tasco.

[hassell]

My acu-track tasco's on my 250 and 300 mag. were bought 30yrs. ago and have never let me down, have no idea of their quality now but would say judging my their prices that the quality is not as good!!!!!!!!!

[youngdon]

I have a tasco pro model that has been on a .357 Rem. Maximum for about twenty years with no problem.

[CO204yoter]

its not even a tasco its an NRA brand lol but it has a bdc reticle

[Old Roy]

Toxic said:

Leupold is the only scope I use, they are great on heavy recoil rifles also and the warrenty cant be beat. recoil is what kills cheap scopes

x2 great scopes for the money

[knapper]

I have a SSK hand cannon in 45/70 with a 2X Luepold scope for over 28 yrs. and it is doing fine.

[ebbs]

knapper said:

I have a SSK hand cannon in 45/70 with a 2X Luepold scope for over 28 yrs. and it is doing fine.

SSK has been around that long?

[youngdon]

Since 1977 if memory serves, so 33 years although JD was messing with handguns and ammo for quite a few years before that. He's a pretty interesting guy, I spoke for about a half hour with him one Saturday morning and he invited me if I found myself in his part of Ohio to stop by the plant to shoot with him. He was just putting the finishing touches on a machine gun for the military that shot his .300Whisper. He assured me that he would send them only one of the prototypes so that he could continue to play with the others. Unfortunately I have never made it to the plant, as every time I am in Ohio it is to visit family(we all know how demanding they can be). That was in 95' I believe. I tried to get him to autograph my .375JDJ barrel but he wouldn't do it, he said that it wouldn't be fair to all the others. I told him I wouldn't tell a soul untill he died and made me rich. I thought he was going to choke he laughed so hard. One piece of advice he gave me was that if you needed a scope to handle recoil go with Leupold(he made me guess the name) as he did a lot of testing for scope manufacturers.

Yep 77' I just googled it.

[ebbs]

When Dad (tc4me) started up his Thompson Center resale business he asked me to learn about and handle the Contender side of things, which I had already begun to do in some of my own dealings. I spent a lot of time reading and learning about JD Jones and all of the work he had done to create some impressive ballistics from primarily handgun only style cartridges that had been developed from rifle cartridges. The energy he was able to get from these was absolutely incredible to me. I told dad I felt like he was the PO Ackley of handgunning (No disrespect to Col. Cooper) with everything he had done to advance hunting with the things.

How you like that 375 JDJ? the .444 Marlin is a family favorite and after I learned that JD used that as the base cartridge for his 375 design I vowed that I'd have one in an SSK barrel one day.