New to me, that is, it's a 4x Lyman All American, which I will guess has been in this world for about fifty years. I got it from Why Not, a month or two ago, but just got around to trying it out.
I put it on my Husqvarna 30-06, which I have stated on these threads before, I bought new in December, 1949, shortly after the Husqvarna sporting rifles were first exported to Canada. In those 62 years the rifle, with it's blued barrel and Beechwood stock, has been bashed around on a good many mountains and much bush, in good weather and bad.
On one horse trip we were packed up and set to go home, with the horses tied to a rail. I leaned the rifle up against the rail, while I was going to untie my horse. I got called away for something, returned five minutes later, to see my rifle, this rifle, in the water and mud, with a big foot from a pack horse on the barrel! A week or so later I went on a goat hunt, before I had a chance to check the sighting of the Lyman 48 aperature on it. I took a shot at a rock a couple hundred yards away, hit it, so carried on and later in the day, killed a goat with it.
I now put the old Lyman scope on it and bore sighted it at the range, at 100 metres. Fired one shot at 25, which was too close to change, so shot these three at 100 metres, before I looked at the target.
Ted told me that Lyman AA scope had about the best, most precise asjustments that he had seen on any scope. This was sure proven on adjusting while bore sighting. It just moved exactly where it was supposed to.
The group measures abodut .62".
I put it on my Husqvarna 30-06, which I have stated on these threads before, I bought new in December, 1949, shortly after the Husqvarna sporting rifles were first exported to Canada. In those 62 years the rifle, with it's blued barrel and Beechwood stock, has been bashed around on a good many mountains and much bush, in good weather and bad.
On one horse trip we were packed up and set to go home, with the horses tied to a rail. I leaned the rifle up against the rail, while I was going to untie my horse. I got called away for something, returned five minutes later, to see my rifle, this rifle, in the water and mud, with a big foot from a pack horse on the barrel! A week or so later I went on a goat hunt, before I had a chance to check the sighting of the Lyman 48 aperature on it. I took a shot at a rock a couple hundred yards away, hit it, so carried on and later in the day, killed a goat with it.
I now put the old Lyman scope on it and bore sighted it at the range, at 100 metres. Fired one shot at 25, which was too close to change, so shot these three at 100 metres, before I looked at the target.
Ted told me that Lyman AA scope had about the best, most precise asjustments that he had seen on any scope. This was sure proven on adjusting while bore sighting. It just moved exactly where it was supposed to.
The group measures abodut .62".
