Hi Guys,
Sorry Billy but I really don't think that BSA do themselves any favours with their scopes. But then again it's not the proper BSA company anymore just some one else that brought up the name
I am not even sure if BSA Guns Ltd have anything to do with the BSA scopes.
BSA Guns Ltd is tied up with Gamo in Spain where I believe their spring powered air rifles are now made, heck the whole BSA Guns Ltd is housed in the old stocking shop of the original BSA Smallarms company
There are a lot of these scope compaies who buy their products from the same factory and just have their own name put on them and I don't think that the quality is always as good as it should be or once was. I remember the first proper new scope I brought which was back in 1979, it was a Japanese made 4x32 with duplex reticle made for the ASI (Anglo Spanish Importers) company and it was put on my new Feinwerkbau Model 127 air rifle, the scope cost £29:95 ($53:91US) and I was earning about £60 ($108 US) per week so the scope cost me about 1/2 a weeks wages before stoppages
but was a much better made scope than the cheap ones are now.
I still have that scope and it's currently on my BSA Super Sport Five rim fire rifle, the Feinwerkbau is leaning up agaist the side in the other room and has an old Tasco 4x40WA scope fitted to it that I picked up S/H somewhere.
Please note that not all cheap scopes are made poorly, the trouble is telling them apart from the poorly made ones
I picked up a Chinese 4x40 scope which is a copy of the old 1970's Tasco ones and it's been on several rifles including a P-14 sporter and I have actually used it to shoot at 600 yards on the P-14. Just got lucky with that one, heck I have had it now for about 15 years
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