Weaver Kaspa 4-16x44

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I am going to stick my neck out here and comment on this scope.

If you are looking for a reasonably priced varmint scope in the $200 to $300 price range I would recommend that you take a good look at the Weaver Kaspa 4-16x44

It has a very useful power range 4-16, it also offers a nice side parallax adjustment dial, the reticle is nice and thin with good holdover markings.

The eye relief for a scope in this price range is absolutely outstanding, at 4x you get a full 4.7in of relief, and at the worst when up at 16x you still get 3.8in

The glass looked just fine to me, clear and bright. Better than a bushnell legend, close to a Burris Fullfield.

The adjustments gave a nice click and are 1/4in, the caps are metal. The power zoom is smooth and not stiff at all.

These scope go for $269 and are readily accessable at Canadian Tire. In the states you will see them for $199. Yes, it is made in China but I would give it a chance over the majority of other options with such poor eye relief.

If you needed a scope I'd consider this one and this is coming from a Leupold VX3 guy.

Maybe I'll get kicked in the balls now, but I will say again that I was actually very very impressed. 2 verys..
 
Horrible advice. I have one that came as a package scope (3-9x40). Free in the package. Grossly and ridiculously overpriced at Canadian Tire for $159. It's an $89 scope roughly equivelent to the Bushnell Banner.

It's dark and has horrible coulor changes at the edges.

It's your average, cheap, made in China scope. Please don't recommend it to anyone.
 
Oh? How so? Mine is dark and has a nice discoloured yellow ring around the entire image.

I had to return the first scope because the turret caps were cross threaded so I have two that I've looked through and they're the same.

They're in the same class.
 
Weaver Kaspa I would have guaranteed better than a Bushnell Trophy, I had even thought better than a Legend. But again, I have not used one just looked through them. I was actually impressed.
 
Weaver Kaspa is on the trophy hunter international. I know because when I had to exchange it, it was exchanged for a boxed Kaspa which was identical in every way.

I'm not in the habit of trashing things that I own unless they're crap. It's crap.
 
I like Weavers. When the Kaspa line showed up I didn't think it was a good sign for the brand that they introduced a significantly cheaper product and gave it an additional name. I'll stick to the classic K and classic V series.
 
Yes, but the name was sold and resold. I'm not sure who owns it now but the current Weavers (K series, Classic V series, Grand Slams) are good. Made in Japan, fully multi-coated optics, lifetime warranty (to original purchaser.)

But apparently not all of this is true of the Kaspa sub-brand.
 
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ALBERTA BOY said:
Weaver Kaspa is on the trophy hunter international. I know because when I had to exchange it, it was exchanged for a boxed Kaspa which was identical in every way.

I'm not in the habit of trashing things that I own unless they're crap. It's crap.
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Jut because you have a bad experience with a product it does not make it crap? What about people with a lemon Ruger 10/22? That's a crap gun too then? ... Like I said, I got the product and its great, But that's only my opinion.
 
Arseno said:
Jut because you have a bad experience with a product it does not make it crap? What about people with a lemon Ruger 10/22? That's a crap gun too then? ... Like I said, I got the product and its great, But that's only my opinion.
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As I said, I have had two in my possession. They weren't lemons like something that was defective. They just have crappy glass...
 
ALBERTA BOY said:
Oh? How so? Mine is dark and has a nice discoloured yellow ring around the entire image.

I had to return the first scope because the turret caps were cross threaded so I have two that I've looked through and they're the same.

They're in the same class.
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This is 150 all in. Stop trashing a scope/product that doesn't 'belong' in your comparisons... I have leupold VX3's Zeiss, etc etc. for $150 I challange any other scope to be as good as this one. On a cheap 'plinking' rifle - one cant go wrong. Its easy to say that the 'Kaspa' is poop. I would too; if I was comparing to my Zeiss. However, with a $800 +/- difference in price... Let s keep it in perspective.
 
To be fair most people don't really know what they are doing when evaluating a rifle scope. Hell I'm still not quite sure what I'm doing lol..
 
I have a Savage 11 Intl Trophy Hunter .308 with the Weaver 3-9x40 (kaspa?) that came with it. It has held zero through several hundred rounds of load development and the BDC reticle works. This is a perfectly good no frills hunting scope on a perfectly good no frills hunting rifle.
 
TheTooner said:
Yes, but the name was sold and resold. I'm not sure who owns it now but the current Weavers (K series, Classic V series, Grand Slams) are good. Made in Japan, fully multi-coated optics, lifetime warranty (to original purchaser.)

But apparently not all of this is true of the Kaspa sub-brand.
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It's owned by ATK, an investment corp., who also own RCBS, Bushnell, Federal, CCI, etc.
The higher end scopes are probably made in Japan, the cheap stuff China. Like many other scope "manufacturers" these days............or maybe we should call them "distributors".
 
turtle said:
This is 150 all in. Stop trashing a scope/product that doesn't 'belong' in your comparisons... I have leupold VX3's Zeiss, etc etc. for $150 I challange any other scope to be as good as this one. On a cheap 'plinking' rifle - one cant go wrong. Its easy to say that the 'Kaspa' is poop. I would too; if I was comparing to my Zeiss. However, with a $800 +/- difference in price... Let s keep it in perspective.
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Please. for the same money you can buy an Elite 3200 which will absolutely destroy this tragic Chinese scope in every possible metric. I would describe it as barely usable. The 3200 is quite decent.
 
The 3200 series Elite is discontinued, so if you find any still available at discounted prices they are great value.

Current Weaver production is in Japan and they are good quality and in the Classic model line, very good value. But the Kaspa line seems to be a venture into the common idea of getting cheaper Chinese production to sell high volume with enough markup to cover the warranty costs of less reliable quality control and hope the equation still ends up in profit. Personally, I'm not buying that.
 
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