Originally Posted By: Colorado CoyotesMartyn4802
The Weaver isn't the old steel tube, it's a newer V-16. Not sure if the scope is bad or something else. Have to pull it and try another scope.
The Redfield bino's have served me well for over 25 years but don't match up with newer, cheaper ones. Maybe time for a new pair.
Thanks for the replies.
Weaver V-16's are excellent scopes. At one time, I had seven of them, but sold some and now I'm down to three. I had them on air rifles, springers, as they would hold up well in that recoil environment. I leaned about them from other air rifle shooters and never read where one had gone belly up on the air gun forums. None of mine died either. In fact, I was shooting one this past Saturday mounted on an old Rem 722 in 222 Rem, doing some load testing. I set it at 16x and can easily see 22 caliber bullet holes in targets 100 yards away.
About a year ago, Weaver was sold by Meade to the earlier Weaver owner, and I can't recall the name of the company. Something like ADK, but not sure?? Anyway, Meade was terrible about Weaver repair work, and the new owner is doing much better. That's about all I know on the current production Weaver repair.