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Re: bizarre Hensoldt/Wetzlar Solar 2,5X scope on claw mount
29/04/13 05:51 AM

This Hensoldt "Solar" with prism optics is very early. If I believe old catalogs, f.i. the AKAH one, it was already out of print by 1908, replaced by "new" Solars with lens optics. From the position of the "claws" I believe it was once fitted to a sporter on a M88 action or a Haenel 1900. At the time this scope was made the .22lr was not fully developed and mounting expensive scopes on .22 bolt action "garden" rifles would have been an outright silly idea. Such low-magnification scopes, still in a somewhat experimental stage of development, were mounted by well to do guncranks on full-bore, big game rifles then. Remember, scopes of about 2.5x magnification like the Lyman Alskan, Weaver K2.5 or Noske were regarded the last word for big game hunting 40 years later in the USA by men like Keith, O Connor or Whelen.

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Subject	Posted by	Posted on
bizarre Hensoldt/Wetzlar Solar 2,5X scope on claw mount	lancaster	29/04/13 04:46 AM
Re: bizarre Hensoldt/Wetzlar Solar 2,5X scope on claw mount	Igorrock	29/04/13 05:20 AM
Re: bizarre Hensoldt/Wetzlar Solar 2,5X scope on claw mount	kuduae	29/04/13 05:51 AM
Re: bizarre Hensoldt/Wetzlar Solar 2,5X scope on claw mount	Even	29/04/13 10:24 AM
Re: bizarre Hensoldt/Wetzlar Solar 2,5X scope on claw mount	A10ACN	06/05/13 05:08 AM
Re: bizarre Hensoldt/Wetzlar Solar 2,5X scope on claw mount	chapmen	06/05/13 06:44 AM
Re: bizarre Hensoldt/Wetzlar Solar 2,5X scope on claw mount	lancaster	09/05/13 07:45 PM
Re: bizarre Hensoldt/Wetzlar Solar 2,5X scope on claw mount	Old_Glass	13/05/13 08:49 AM

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