Vintage Tasco and Pine Ridge

[baer19d]

I have a vintage Tasco pronghorn on a gun that I recenly received and I'm wondering if Tasco ever made a quality product comnpared to their recent scopes. Since the person who had this gun had the scope for as long as I can remember this scope if probably from the late 70's or early 80's, maybe earlier.
Also does anyone know who makes the Cabelas Pine Ridge line of scopes?
Thanks, Mike

[baer19d]

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[charles p]

If your early Tasco is as bad as some I remember, you won't have any trouble recognizing its inferior optics.  Good luck.  I know they got better.

[baer19d]

My personal opinion about Tasco optics is that they are garbage but this one is on my dad's deer rifle that I just inhearited. He's still alive just too old and in too poor of health to hunt any more. I plan on using the rifle and I'm just trying to decide if I will replace the scope or just leave it since it's been on there for who knows how long.

If your early Tasco is as bad as some I remember, you won't have any trouble recognizing its inferior optics.  Good luck.  I know they got better.

[Ladobe]

I've always had the same opinion of Tasco rifle scopes, including the new ones, not on my watch.   But, long ago I was introduced to their TPC for handguns (Tasco Pro Class).   Long discontinued, but I had a bunch of them, still have one and IMO they are still the best there ever was for hard recoiling specialty handguns that shot magnum wildcats.  Expensive when sold new, very compared to anything else from Tasco and most other brands, but they were worth it.   Folks give them away now because they don't know what they have, for a third, quarter or less than what they cost new.   Don't remember if they also had a PC rifle scope then, but if they did it was probably also a great scope.  IMO-YMMV

[Plenty Coups]

I put a Tasco 1.5x5 World Class on a Remington 788 in 7-08 back in 1982. Killed a ton of deer and antelope with it not to mention 1 cow elk and countless rock chucks. My son has it to day with the same scope and it is still going strong. He thinks about putting a better scope on it but always says no in the end. "It is just too deadly Dad"