Earlier Tasco scopes come up quite frequently, these had decent Asashi (Pentax) glass, were made in Japan and look nice on the older rifles, these were far better (in my opinion) than the current Tasco stuff, Tasco's name has gone down hill in recent years so some of the better early stuff can be had at good prices. I still have a 1.75-5x40 that apart from some wear on the eye cup rubber is in very nice cosmetic and optical condition, fully waterproof and holds zero fine on Springers, I've changed rifles many a time but kept the scope, if you can find a Tasco "Worlds" series all the better, they do come up and can be at a very nice price.
Steyr LP10, Steyr LP5,
Vintage Collection - Walther LP53, HW77k Venom, BSF S20 Match, Original 35, ASI Target plus lots more
If you go on E-Bay and search for Weaver K4 or Weaver K3, you will get lots of hits. The early K series of scopes would be contemporary to the MkII Airsporter. At the time the MkII was on sale I'm pretty sure that there were no "British" scopes on the market other than the Mickey mouse ones offered by BSA and Webley. I think even the Nikkos came along a bit later.
Sportsmatch do a mount suitable for the 4 short scope rails, or see if you can get hold of a pair of Parker Hale mounts (RALS4, IIRC) to keep it period correct.
The South of England has 2 good things, the M1 and the A1. Both will take you to Yorkshire.
Ok, weaver search sounds good... gloss steel I'd presume
Always looking for any cheap, interesting, knackered "project" guns. Thanks, JB.
Yes they have steel bodies. Don't go for it if it has Micro-trac adjustments, they are about 1980's vintage.
The South of England has 2 good things, the M1 and the A1. Both will take you to Yorkshire.
B6 looks quite the part if you can find one,and yes they are (blued) all steel and Al;
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ATB, ED
I thought about this thread when I saw on old slim Pecar 3x36mm and mounts on E-thing this evening.
It went for £147 plus p&p.
Ouch.
Damn, I spent less on the gun...
Always looking for any cheap, interesting, knackered "project" guns. Thanks, JB.
I just fitted a 1950s vintage Weaver J4 to my Meteor MkII. These old, 3/4" Weavers were good quality scopes, streets ahead of the scopes BSA and Webley initially brought out to "complement" their air rifles something like 10 or 15 years later.
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The mounts are Parker Hale ARBS 1.
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The South of England has 2 good things, the M1 and the A1. Both will take you to Yorkshire.