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12-26-2009, 08:09 AM
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Happy Boxing day!
Well, Simmons is now owned by Bushnell, which I guess is not a bad thing, Meade pulled the quality out of the garbage, where Blount put it. I had a few Simmons from the 'Made in Japan' days, never a problem. I did have one from the Blount era, and it was a sad scope from front to back. I have seen a few Master series from the newer Meade era of ownership, they seem okay. I have a Cabela's Shotgun Scope on my 12 ga rifled sluger, I compared it to the Simmons, and saw it was indeed a Simmons, and has held up quite well at the range so far, I am confident it will hold up to the task. So good luck to you, hope you bag a red stag when shooting............Jon
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02-02-2010, 06:02 AM
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Oh well my luck has been bad with these master Series Aetecs both prooved to be faulty
 the dealer has sent me a Redhead Visao 3-12x42SF scope for me to try. I believe it's a Basspro product but one they have dropped so I guess that the makers had a lot in the warehose waiting shipping when they were dropped?Anyway it seems some have ended up here in the UK where we don't have Basspro. The scope is darned heavy that's for sure and the optics seem bright but I am not so keen on the tunnel type view through it preferring a nice clear view out to the edge and not this black ring around the view. The other thing is that two piece mounts will be needed unless a single rail can have high rings due to the size of the saddle on the tube. It's huge  as is the eyebell.The rifle which seemed to break the last Aetec, the elevation adjuster siezed up and the eyebell started to wobble about , is a BSA Majestic Featherweight in .270 Winchester. The rifle weighs 6 1/4lbs but the P-H rings I have at the moment are not high enough to allow the objective to clear the barrel but I have a set of high ones coming that I found on e-bay so hopefully they will be high enough to fit this scope.None of my Parker-Hales has enough bolt handle clearence without using excessively high rings due to the size of the eyebell on this scope  .
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