Having learned quite a lot about PU scopes during my brief interaction with this forum, I invite your feedback as I interpret my most recent purchase (pictures below), as follows;
1. Appears “authentic” and not butchered
2. Appears to have been produced in the #297 NKV plant in 1944
3. Proper screws, set-screws, barrels and knurling
4. Proper as-manufactured blued finish
Mount and base have ;
1. No discernible markings or alphanumeric characters
2. Machining/finish that’s inconsistent with the manufacturing (swirls) finish of the time
3. Mount is, in some areas, blued, and in others, parkerized.
Therefore, it’s either;
1. Original and significantly refurbed, or,
2. Aftermarket (whether it mean “commercial” or “manufactured by a Soviet arms depot and used to replace the original”
1944 PU Scope for your Scrutiny
1944 PU Scope for your Scrutiny
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- Darryl
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Re: 1944 PU Scope for your Scrutiny
Scope looks real
Mont looks questionable. I lean toward reproduction.
Base looks like a re-production to me.
Darryl
Mont looks questionable. I lean toward reproduction.
Base looks like a re-production to me.
Darryl
Re: 1944 PU Scope for your Scrutiny
Darryl,
Thank you for taking the time, the day after Christmas when you should be pouring through the new Mosin Nagant book Santa brought you, and assessing my scope. I agree entirely with your assessment, largely because I’ve read many of your assessments of other people’s items, and learned from you.
I have, therefore a question. What do you recommend I do? Should I remove the mount and simply wipe down the scope with a simple cotton cloth with Windex, or?
Again, thank you for taking the time to look at it.
Thank you for taking the time, the day after Christmas when you should be pouring through the new Mosin Nagant book Santa brought you, and assessing my scope. I agree entirely with your assessment, largely because I’ve read many of your assessments of other people’s items, and learned from you.
I have, therefore a question. What do you recommend I do? Should I remove the mount and simply wipe down the scope with a simple cotton cloth with Windex, or?
Again, thank you for taking the time to look at it.
- Miller Tyme
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Re: 1944 PU Scope for your Scrutiny
Scope is legit, base and mount are repro's
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