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Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?
13/07/07 07:55 AM

I find myself asking why someone would want to hunt dangerous game under low light conditions.

One of the things that used to puzzle me about German rifles I would see in the used gun racks was that some of the heaviest caliber rifles (.375 H&H, 9.3X64) carried scopes which looked like they belonged on varmint rifles. Then I learned that they were used for shooting wild boar from stands over potato fields in the moonlight. The rifles looked like full rigged ships with all the sails set. Certainly nothing you would want to carry hunting dangerous game on the ground.

It turns out that the German hunters use other scopes, usually low powered variables, for shooting driven game such as wild boar. Even so, German scopes tend to be very heavy, have large oculars and short eye relief.

My Krieghoff Teck double rifle has had a Lyman All American 2.5X scope on the .458 barrels and a Lyman All American 3X scope on the .375 H&H barrels for over 30 years now. However, my new Kreighoff Ulm 9.3X74R will have a Leupold 1.5-5X VariX III 30mm scope with illuminated reticle, as will my Krieghoff Teck .500 NE. I look forward to trying them out in the not too distant future. My Krieghoff Neptun drilling has a Leupold 1.5-5X VariX III in the 1" version, without the illumination, for its 8X65R rifle barrel.

My .577 C&W Winchester Model 70, on the other hand, is fitted with a Noske Field Scope Number 1, Type A, 2.5X with a 6" eye relief. Made in the '30's, the scope is holding up under significant recoil with evident ease. The cartridge is a shortened rimless version of the .577 NE, with identical ballistic performance. The rifle weighs about 13 pounds.

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Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	edmhunter	11/07/07 10:04 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	jro45	05/01/08 01:30 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	Ripp	09/01/08 03:23 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	escard	07/12/07 06:00 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	Paul	07/12/07 06:20 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	k80	26/12/07 11:55 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	Double_Trouble	23/07/07 10:25 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	9.3x57	23/07/07 10:54 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	jro45	23/07/07 10:29 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	xausa	13/07/07 07:55 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	9.3x57	13/07/07 01:03 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	mehulkamdar	21/07/07 11:46 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	9.3x57	23/07/07 11:10 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	mehulkamdar	23/07/07 11:49 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	9.3x57	23/07/07 12:38 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	gator	30/12/07 11:54 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	Ripp	30/12/07 12:11 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	JabaliHunter	31/12/07 07:00 AM
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Re: BEST Dangerous Game Scope EVER??	Westley	08/09/07 02:34 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	smicha6551	23/07/07 04:43 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	chuck375	13/11/07 01:05 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	Ripp	13/11/07 02:12 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	9.3x57	13/11/07 02:51 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	tophet1	13/11/07 03:21 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	Ripp	14/11/07 12:29 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	Anonymous	01/01/08 07:11 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	Schamankungulo	01/01/08 12:13 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	JabaliHunter	02/01/08 03:20 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	jro45	06/12/07 02:25 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	Ripp	28/11/07 01:50 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	JabaliHunter	28/11/07 09:26 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	Ripp	28/11/07 10:56 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	hoppdoc	02/12/07 02:50 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	Ripp	09/01/08 03:26 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	Ripp	02/12/07 12:26 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	hoppdoc	02/12/07 02:36 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	chuck375	03/12/07 06:32 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	Ripp	03/12/07 06:45 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	500Nitro	03/12/07 06:48 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	chuck375	03/12/07 11:09 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	Tatume	13/11/07 01:25 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	fivebigbores	21/07/07 12:31 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	NitroX	22/07/07 05:56 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	EricD	22/07/07 05:04 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	NitroX	22/07/07 05:52 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	osix	13/07/07 06:19 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	EricD	14/07/07 04:02 AM
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Re: Who makes the best scope for Dangerous game guns?	osix	15/07/07 04:48 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	ozhunter	13/07/07 11:39 PM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	DUGABOY1	13/07/07 02:31 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	rigbymauser	12/07/07 01:56 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	500grains	12/07/07 02:22 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	smicha6551	12/07/07 04:40 AM
Re: Who makes the best scope for Danderous game guns?	9.3x57	12/07/07 11:26 AM
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