Originally Posted by
Shooter5
kCW: thanks, good to know. It sure would be better to have a nice Leupold scope instead. I wish I could afford to install claw mounts on some of my other rifles. Interesting history on proofing; as you can see it has the stag antler proof with the data numbers (16.5.68 8x57IS). What do the numbers translate to? Perhaps the owner did have the proofing/stamp conducted at a later time. I wonder what the exchange rate was for DM to USD in 1949? Perhaps it was more favorable to GIs at that time. I sure would like to know which mfg and date code was originally on the ring. It was replaced with "unbraughbar", wonder what that means?