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Picked up this old heavy barrel SS Martini action from friend Brad B. last week- I had thought about having it re-chambered to .22Mag- I have a large stockpile of .22 Magnum shells- great for woodchucks and tree rats-- Brad passed on doing this, too many steps involved and it would not be economical, in his opinion and experience, to do this. So today I put a cheapo Simmons 4x32 .22 scope on it and took it to the local range- great trigger, steady, accurate- Now--I would like to upgrade the scope-- bear in mind I have 20/20 vision with no defects (yet anyway) and for the range I am using this piece, 6x to 8x would be tops in magnification range- prefer a fixed power- with a 36mm to 40mm objective lens- any thoughts or if someone has a scope (1" tube) for sale, I would be glad to consider it-- I've had it with trying to out--figure the bids and the schmucks on E-Bay, half of whom will sell only if you have Pay Pal- and I trust that and plastic money like I trust Obama, Brady, Bloomberg. etc--

As a guy that has bought and sold on ebay, I take exception to your "schmucks" comment and I'm sorry to hear about your attitude towards it. However, that is where the best likelihood of finding an interesting scope lies.

In the absence of that route and a nice Unertl or Fecker or Lyman that you might have found there, I can only suggest the remake of the Winchester B5 that is made by Montana Vintage Arms - get the version with the target knobs. It is an excellent value. Unfortunately, it is not listed on their website for some reason but give them a call. They have a very fine scope that would be totally appropriate for your rifle.

Well at least I didn't say -"Schmucks with earlaps, already"--like those who claim to have bought Winchester shotguns for low ball $- when it is illegal to buy or sell entire firearms, ammunition or gun parts receivers on E-Bay- My gripe is the 'rigged bids" I enter a bid on a scope for let's say $75.30, and I get a red letter notice that I have just been outbid by $1.50 more- so I re-up the bid, and the same crapola reply pops up-- Don't the E-Bay sellers have anything better to do than to stay on their sites and rig their bids up to the max- E-Bay, or as I often call it- Ex-Lax Bay- home of the "Tech Weinies"--

I think you need to study up on how ebay works. I don't rig my auctions and I've sold a few scopes recently. Folks got them for damn good prices too.

But whatever jerks your chain. Buy the MVA I told you about and be happy. Or whatever.

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They've had several nice vintage type scopes sell in the past month that I didn't win, but I'm cheap.

I had typed out a long winded tutorial for RWTF about how he should learn the ins and outs of eBay buying. Then I deleted it while thinking "don't do that- the last thing I need is yet another person bidding against me for the cool esoteric gun stuff that pops up!" Whew! Dodged that bullet!

Good move Gary, but I could have used a few more folks bidding against each other for the 30x Fecker and the 2-eye piece Fecker with box. Both went too damn cheap.

In the last 2-3 yrs I think the price of top end "Vintage" scopes has softened considerably.

Which E-Bay do you mean? The one I find on Goog;le search doesn't allow guns or ammo to be sold- just gun related items like cases, scopes, slings- What pisses me off is the rigged bids- like they have some or automatic machine that steps up the bid- that's like playing table stakes poker with a man named "Doc"-- only the NYSE is a bigger rigged game than E-Bay- plus it was founded by a bunch of Kalifornia piss=headed hippies, the left-overs from the flower power idiots of the 1960's--

You know, RWTF, trying to help you is a losing proposition.

You are clueless about how ebay works and unwilling to learn.

That's too bad - for you. I'm done trying to help ya.

Brent I think this member is a lot like Joe (the Westerner) on another site. Knows but can't resist stirring the pot. smile JMO Whitey