Old Tasco scopes

I.O.N.Doyle

I.O.N.Doyle

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Got a question on a old Tasco scope I have had sitting on top of a Rem 760 .30-06 that I am finally going to replace soon. First off I am not a Tasco fan so don't worry about hurting my feelings on it but in fairness to this scope it has always worked well and held zero very close. Secondly I know the easy answers are either to throw it away or keep it because there is no need to throw away a scope. Mainly looking for here the quality of Tasco's from the time period it comes from and willing to save it for one of the kids guns as they come of age. The scope itself came on the rifle it is currently on and was purchased second hand a little over 20 years ago so I have no idea of the exact age. There are not really any markings on the scope other than the Tasco name. It is a fixed 4 power in gloss black and has a wide field similar to the Redfield widefields. The only other thing distinctive on the scope is that on the front it has a silver ring similar in size to the current gold ring of a leupold VX-1 in width. Any ideas?
 
Keep it there is no reason to throw it away as you said and it could work well for the kids! I have a friend of mine who hunts deer with one and brings in more meat every year than I do!
 
The only problem I've had with Tasco is brightness, eye relief, and clarity... compared to the better units. They shoot pretty durn good.
 
If it works save it. I have a tasco 6x24 on my old woodchuck rifle. It worked awesome until the coyotes came into town in the early 90s and wioed them all out in the hayfields. Now the gun sits in my closet hoping the state changes the regulations in my part of the state to allow centerfires. I will go for a lower power scope if I get the chance to take it out for coyotes 6x is just to much for most of the yotes I call in at first light.
 
actually the older tasco scopes were of decent quality, It's the newer ones that are crap, they changed from using japanese glass to chinese.
 
I would have to agree about the old ones being ok, i have one, 2-7x32 wideveiw thats so old the gloss is worn off, but it's a great scope that works perfect, had it for a year before i knew it was i.r.. blue
 
Some of them were good, some not so good. I had two, the 4X16 TR versions. If I changed the power ring setting, it would change point of impact by 1/2" to 1" (depending on which scope I was using) at 100 yards. So, I just set them at one power and left them there.

On one, the back lens came loose and rattled around in the ocular housing. In the other, after I had sold it to a friend, the top turret popped right off the scope when he was shooting his .22-250. The heaviest recoiling gun it had been used on was a .25-06, for less than 30 shots, and had spent most of it's time on a .22-250. It turned out that the male threads of the turret were under proper size to fit the female threads of the scope tube and the threads of the two pieces had barely been engaging.

The worst thing that can happen by saving it is that the seals deteriorate and it fogs up or leaks when exposed to water or changes in temperatures. If you have no place to send it in to have new seals put in, it's pretty much useless in that condition and you are better off selling it now and getting a decent newer scope, for which you can get repairs done at a reasonable cost if it needs them.
 
My dad has had an old Tasco on his .308 for like 35 years, give or take a couple of years. It was my grandfathers gun before he passed on and that sucker shoots straight everytime it has never lost zero for my dad.
 


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