A reticle I've never seen before

DW Hanna

DW Hanna

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I'm wrapping up a deal on a second rifle, a Weatherby Vanguard, and it comes mounted with a rather unique scope. The scope is a Weaver, I want to say a 4X16X40. Aside from the cross hairs, there's what appears to be a range finder in the lower right quadrant of the sight picture. I noticed while adjusting the magnification, that the range indicator would index on the edge of the sight picture. Never seen one of these before. Any Ideas or experience with one of these?
 
I took another look at it tonight. It's a Weaver, Redfield 6X18. One of the guys in the shop said he has one, but it didn't come with a manual, so he wasn't sure how the range feature works. He did say it has nice clear glass, and works extremely well.
 
Originally Posted By: DW HannaI took another look at it tonight. It's a Weaver, Redfield 6X18.

Which? Weaver and Redfield are and have always been two separate companies. My bet is an old Redfield Accurange.
 
Originally Posted By: GCOriginally Posted By: DW HannaI took another look at it tonight. It's a Weaver, Redfield 6X18.

Which? Weaver and Redfield are and have always been two separate companies. My bet is an old Redfield Accurange.

YEP. Sounds about right. Does it look something like this?

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Exactly like that. The adjustment cap was marked Weaver, so maybe put on to replace a missing cap. The side of the tube says Redfield. I found some information on it last night including a set of instructions. Very interesting, and the guys who have them saying they're at their best between 200 and 600 yards.
 
That is very similar to the 1970s Tasco range finding 6x-18x40 scopes, but they didn't have the 200-600 bar in them.
 
Originally Posted By: DiRTY DOGHow does it work?

According to the instructions I found, the two cross hairs at the top represent 18". Place those on a object approximately 18" in height, then adjust the magnification setting until those lines touch the top and bottom of the 18" target. Read the range from the scale, and apply that range to the range adjustment on the turret (I believe), then place the cross hairs on the target and let fly.
These may have been developed for Sniper use, as the 18" object used in the instructions was a mans torso, measured from the shoulders to the belt line. They even indicated that for ranges over 600 yards, a sight board with a measured 36" target could be used to determine those ranges.

A couple of the threads I found discussing these indicated they are extremely good scopes with clear optics. The only down side was that they were older and lacked the newer quality coatings employed on today's top tier optics.

I guess we'll see, as I bought the rifle with that scope on it,and will have it home after the Holidays.
 
Originally Posted By: DiRTY DOGHow does it work?

It gives the coyote, deer, hog (insert your favorite game animal) time to run away and hide while you are fooling with your scope settings trying to determine the yardage.
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Wonder why they never caught on?
 
Boy does that bring back memories and some not so good. I was in the Marine Corps in the early 60's before Veitnam got big, we only had advisers in there then, no combat troops per say, getting off track here, when we first started setting up designated snipers, they were not specially trained, just the best shots in the company. They resurrected some old sniper rifles out of mothballs from WW2 and Korea, some had Old target scopes, some even the old "Alaskian". Anyway they needed new modern and some dummy bought a ship load of those Redfields thinking that range finder was the ideal. Well, facing the hot Asian sun with that range finder gizmo extended ( made of plastic) it would get hot and soft and droop down out of sight never to be seen again
 
A lot of 3x9 Redfields with the rangefinder were used by snipers in Vietnam. However, most never used the rangefinder. They were unbelievable at estimating range and using Kentucky windage.
 
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