Sunday market antique scope with BL22

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it comes with a 16mm dovetail mount only attach to one place
So I have to make some spacers for 1 inch windage adjustable rimfire rings for it

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Surprisingly clear glass

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It's a sweat old scope, was it a bargain?

[No1Mk3]

Love the Miroku 22 lever action, and that late 1920's 2 1/2x scope really looks good on it. These were/are good scopes which in the 1930's in the US sold for $25, good money back then.

[Wapiti]

Interesting find SHV. Hope you get your external mounts sorted out.

On market finds, I was at a farm clearance sale down the road a bit about 10 years ago. Of course there were the usual rows of pallets all different lots of this and that. The place was full of the BMW and Volvo SUV set, all dressed in their top-to-toe RM Williams outfits, trying desperately to blend in. Whilst they fought over ruined anvils and completely useless rusted rabbit traps and cash was flying everywhere, I spotted a pallet of home-made gun cases.
They were the kind made from 3-ply and pine, all varnished and obviously made with love . There was a bloke I knew there already, eyeing me suspiciously. I opened a handy one, and inside was a Khales steel tube 8x spotlighting scope, in perfect order with leather covers. I thought, sh*t. I want this case.
The bloke next to me said, we got a deal, I won't bid on that case as long as you leave that busted arse one on the bottom to me. I said why, what's in that one.
He'd stashed it at the bottom. He cracked it for me and inside was a very nice nick Bentley 8-shot 12g pump gun.
The auctioneer got to the pile, and nobody except us two was interested. He tried to sell it all as one lot but we made him break it up, I said I only want the top case and old mate here wants the rest.
And so be it, my case was $10 and the rest, including the bottom one that was heavier than it should've been, went for $20 to old mate. We both went to the cashier and paid up and both left. The top scope is still unused.

A sly old Czech fitter I worked with was at the Rocklea markets in about 2000, amongst a pile of smelly old clothes, jewellery boxes and strange cases, was a small leather bound case. He opened it and inside was a Belgian FN Browning 9mm HighPower pistol, all deep blue and fleur engraved. He asked the foreign old lady, how much. She said, $100. He paid for it and left quick smart. I know this is true because he showed it to me on the Monday and asked if I thought it was safe and in working order. It was absolutely perfect. What a find.

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It's a sweat old scope, was it a bargain?

Ask 100 paid 50…

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The hard plastic eye piece removed easily still looks nice maybe even better

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The BL22 scope mount dovetail position is a little bit weird for the most modern scope but for this antique the position is perfectly fine

[Wapiti]

Nive lever action rimfire too mate. The smoothest, short throw, best most accurate lever rimfire there ever was.

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I'd call 50 bucke a steal, we'll done, iv been on the lookout for something like that.... give you $60

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There was another antique scope with wooden case looks like a monocular rather than a scope it has very weird reticle, no cross line but some areas divided by the reticle I tried to find the similar reticle on internet but couldn’t find
The scope is made by brass most of parts and the case looks like military one very original and authentic (not toy)
Any one can give me some clue on it?

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There was another antique scope with wooden case looks like a monocular rather than a scope it has very weird reticle, no cross line but some areas divided by the reticle I tried to find the similar reticle on internet but couldn’t find
The scope is made by brass most of parts and the case looks like military one very original and authentic (not toy)
Any one can give me some clue on it?

Sounds like it could be an Artillery scope, no pics?

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Interesting find SHV. Hope you get your external mounts sorted out.

On market finds, I was at a farm clearance sale down the road a bit about 10 years ago. Of course there were the usual rows of pallets all different lots of this and that. The place was full of the BMW and Volvo SUV set, all dressed in their top-to-toe RM Williams outfits, trying desperately to blend in. Whilst they fought over ruined anvils and completely useless rusted rabbit traps and cash was flying everywhere, I spotted a pallet of home-made gun cases.
They were the kind made from 3-ply and pine, all varnished and obviously made with love . There was a bloke I knew there already, eyeing me suspiciously. I opened a handy one, and inside was a Khales steel tube 8x spotlighting scope, in perfect order with leather covers. I thought, sh*t. I want this case.
The bloke next to me said, we got a deal, I won't bid on that case as long as you leave that busted arse one on the bottom to me. I said why, what's in that one.
He'd stashed it at the bottom. He cracked it for me and inside was a very nice nick Bentley 8-shot 12g pump gun.
The auctioneer got to the pile, and nobody except us two was interested. He tried to sell it all as one lot but we made him break it up, I said I only want the top case and old mate here wants the rest.
And so be it, my case was $10 and the rest, including the bottom one that was heavier than it should've been, went for $20 to old mate. We both went to the cashier and paid up and both left. The top scope is still unused.

A sly old Czech fitter I worked with was at the Rocklea markets in about 2000, amongst a pile of smelly old clothes, jewellery boxes and strange cases, was a small leather bound case. He opened it and inside was a Belgian FN Browning 9mm HighPower pistol, all deep blue and fleur engraved. He asked the foreign old lady, how much. She said, $100. He paid for it and left quick smart. I know this is true because he showed it to me on the Monday and asked if I thought it was safe and in working order. It was absolutely perfect. What a find.

No more that kind of bargain nowadays

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There was another antique scope with wooden case looks like a monocular rather than a scope it has very weird reticle, no cross line but some areas divided by the reticle I tried to find the similar reticle on internet but couldn’t find
The scope is made by brass most of parts and the case looks like military one very original and authentic (not toy)
Any one can give me some clue on it?

Sounds like it could be an Artillery scope, no pics?

Very similar from outside

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finally got time to sight in this antique scope at indoor shooting range
Lucky easily zeroed also the POIs of CCI SV and CCI mini mag are the same

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One 2 dollar coin and one 10c coin can cover the CCI SV 5 shot group, not too bad for this quick test result, will try more groups to test this antique scope to see how accurate and the ability to hold the zero in long term