Before lasers

[BILLY D.]

Originally posted by petey
Here's a picture of a Swedish optical rangefinder manufactured by WILD during WWII that we use for long range hunting. The optics are 10x's clearer than that of any today and is "more" accurate than any moderen "laser" range finder. (it's the bazoka looking thing out front)

The downfall, it weights around 40 pounds so not very portable & it ranges in meters not yards (but who can't do the math?)



Here's a site selling one for under $300..A pretty good buy in this day and age

http://www.samcoglobal.com/access.html

darn it petey, every time i get over the urge to buy one of the wilds i see a picture like that and strange ideas start going through my feeble mind again. aren't they good to about 20000 meters? i know they are accurate. you can drop a long range cannon shell in somebodys lap with one of those.

i wonder if weaver makes a set of rings and bases for one of those so i can mount it on my target rifle?

did i tell you about my new light weight rifle? i got all kinds of stuff mounted on it and it only weighs 14 #.

where did you get that tripod with all the accessories that the firearm is setting on? is that a homemade deal or did you buy it?