lonnnnnnng scope wanted

Hope its forward!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This gets back to the old days when internal adjustment scopes had inadequate adjustments for accurate tracking.

The scope shown looks sort of like a 1 1/4 inch Unertl. In the distant past I used a 8X Unertl but it had a 1 1/2 inch objective. That scope was on a M70 and had the rear mount screwed onto the receiver ring and front mount secured on the barrel at some specific length. The Springfield appears to have a 1 1/2 Unertl , mounted on the receiver ring and barrel but with no spring it would need to be returned to battery by pulling it back by hand.

A scope on a Remington 40X rim fire is shown and the spring would not be of great value.

Upon touching off a .30-06 or equivalent the scope has a tendency to remain stationary and the rifle recoils back making the scope move forward in relation to the rifle. The spring pushes the scope back to its original position by pushing against the stationary front mount. Scope rotation is prevented by a raised rib on an approximate 3/4 (forgot) tube, the notch for the rib can be seen on the front mount. Good shooting practice requires pulling the scope back towards the shooter, by hand, and rotating it counter clockwise to assure same position between shots as the spring, being adjustable may not be sufficient to do this. When firing the rifle you can hear and feel the spring go ... tuung.

In addition to using an 8X I also had a 14X of the same type.

As expected, these are great range and fair weather scopes. Lens were sealed in with what looks like threaded rings and water pump grease making them subject to fogging and they are subject to damage because of the external mounts, exposed adjustments, and long slender tubes.

I gave the 14X to a friend (former Army, rifle professional, civilian and competitive shooter) who won the 1000 yard Wimbleton using it.

I have a now discontinued aluminum tube Weaver T10 with the tiny 1/8 min dot on my .22 and if I screwed on enough sun shades I could make it 1 yard long. This scope can be focused down to 30 feet or so for shooting flies and other bugs.

Yup, PIta.