Hi Score Scope

[BLUEDOT 72]

Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of an old scope labeled "HI SCORE? IS 3x9x about 32 (or40) .

Did another company take themover? It is about 40 plus years old and appears pretty rugged, being shot over a 300 H&H ( in a Rem.721) all of these years.

Reason I am concerned is because I have lost the scope caps.

[jon lynn]

Can you post a picture of it, or are there any markings which might help?

[skeet]

It is a Jap import from long ago and may even have been a Tasco made for a store brand. Not bad scopes if they were made in Japan. Keep looking for scope caps at gun shows. You'll find something that fits. I found a pair of caps for a scope that I just bought.

[BLUEDOT 72]

I am revising my earlier post:
The scope in question is a Hy-Score Sportster, Made in Germany for the Hy-Score Arms Corp, New York. It is a 2 1/2 x 6 Power and has a 6 digit serial number. Very good quality.

The scope adjustment caps that are missing are about 5/8 inch DIA. and have outside threads.

As the gun-Rem 721 300 H&H- was discontinued in about 1962, and anecdotal evidence indicates that the scope being installed when the gun was bought.

If anyone has any FIRST-HAND knowledge of this scope, I would appreciate hearing.




EARIER POST:
Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of an old scope labeled "HI SCORE? IS 3x9x about 32 (or40) .

Did another company take themover? It is about 40 plus years old and appears pretty rugged, being shot over a 300 H&H ( in a Rem.721) all of these years.

Reason I am concerned is because I have lost the scope caps.

[jon lynn]

Hey BLUEDOT 72,

Having lived in Germany for many, many moons, I learned the term "Made in Germany" is a loose term at best.

Several smaller companies like Seeadler and RWS, purchase scope components. By German law if it is assembled in the Bundes Republik with one German made part in it, it may be labled as “Made in Germany”

I have been hitting the web, mainly GOOGLE DEUTSCHLAND, and I can’t find squat. I know Hensoldt made scopes for NATO purposes and wound up on some German hunting rifles. It was a simple 4x with a post reticle. And Aus Jena, and Dokter which used to be Zeiss in the old Cold War days, made very limited scopes for sales to the west without the usual Zeiss fanfare, but I am having trouble finding older German adverts to narrow what it could be.

But I will keep looking, I might even send my old German gunsmith an e-mail and ask him if he can pin point something. There are a few older brands of scopes I can’t remember the names of, that I saw at small German versions of swap meets (NOTHING LIKE HERE!).