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I believe that H&H marketed these as an option until abt 1965 and perhaps later but the models abt 1980 passed to using alloy for the tubes.

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I have an 'Australian Outdoors' magazine from 1966 (somewhere) with a review of Nickel scopes by Colin Shadbolt. He said that many (if not all) of them had tubes made of a form of Dural.

As I think I've related, I almost bought one in 1973, a beautiful little thing with the finest blending of the fields I've ever seen. It only cost $50 and, thinking it was a 4x32, I put it on layby, intending it to go on my sporterised FN Mauser .30/06 sambar rifle. But, just as I was about to hand it back, I noticed it was in fact a 6x32. Why the hell they ever made that one I still haven't really worked out.

Edited by Paul (14/12/10 03:53 PM)

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