Hi All:
Thanks for the suggestions!
I "found" an old Bushnell Scopechief 4X in my junk scope drawer.
This is marked Bushnell Scopechief and Triple Tested on the side of the turret. I have no idea if this is period correct. Perhaps someone can tell me the age of this scope. Sometimes one gets lucky! Lol
I had my heart set on an Alaskan or a Stith Bear Cub but this one will suffice for now
If I remember correctly, the Unertl Hawks were not weather resistant and did not have centered reticules. They may not have been coated as we have nowadays
I just remembered that I have an old Bushnell Scopechief 6X from the 50's. The reticule is not centered and it has much adjustments dialed in thus producing a very weird looking sight picture. Oh how I lusted for one of these scopes for varmints when I was young. They had a huge objective lens that had to be good!
Stay well my friends,
Zeke
If I understand Nick Stroebel's book correctly, the Scopechief's were produced from 1954 to 1965, in 1959 they
added the command post feature in which you could change
from crosshairs, to a crosshairs with a vertical post by
flipping a lever beneath the windage cap. If your does
not have the command post feature, I would say it was one
of the early ones, made before 1959. I believe Whitey once told me that some or all of these may have been manufactured by Kowa in Japan. I always pick these up when I can get them cheaply.
