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I have one coming the end of the week for a 22 Marlin 39A I picked up. Special Black Friday deal scope with rings shipped 50% off. I'll see what I got. Hope it's a decent little scope for a 22 rim fire.
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I have several Simmons ATEC scopes on rifles and consider them a value priced item. If I was going on a high dollar hunt, I would choose another manufacturer. If I was plinking or varmint hunting with back-up rifles, I think they would be a reasonable choice.
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I have two Simmons gold medal hand gun scopes. Both are 2 1/2 to 7. One has been mounted on a contender in 7-30 waters and the other on a 22hornet barrel. The recoil on the 7-30 is rather brisk. I have had no issue with either.
I also have a gold medal silhouette 6 1/2 to 20 on a contender carbine in 17 AH. Other than the dot being too big I have no issue with it. I have had other Simmons scopes that were of poor quality but the gold medal series seems to be a step up in quality. I have read that the gold medal models were made to compete with higher end scope manufactures but did not fair well due to the Simmons reputation. Rider |
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We’re these scopes not made in Taiwan or the Philippines at some time?
Ken.
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Simmons
You get what you pay for.
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Precisely why all the optics in my safe have that Gold Ring. Buy once, cry once.
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I bought a 22 Hornet 7 or 8 years back, that had a Simmons 3x9 44 mag scope on it. It came off the rifle after the first range session. I couldn’t get the reticle in focus no matter how much I turned the focus knob. I had a Weaver T36 on the heavy barreled Ruger during load development, and rifle tuning. It has a Bushnell Elite 2x10 on it for hunting. Someone mentioned Vista Outdoor as the owner of Simmons earlier in this thread. They own Weaver and Bushnell also.
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To the OP's question "what happened to Simmons?"
With Vista Outdoors purchasing scope companies like Weaver, Bushnell, Simmons, Tasco, there was a lot of overlap in product line. They have discontinued some brands and cut down on product offerings in other lines. Also they don't market/promote some of the brands at all. |
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I'm glad that there are other far better options too. -BCB
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Well if you're Jonsing for a Simmons scope Natchez has them and Trashco's on sale in their latest E-Flyer.
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