![]() ![]() The Alaskan, however, pre-dates the Kollmorgen’s by nearly 20 years and exhibits many of the same (how did they do that back then?) characteristics. Sure, there are others like the Kollmorgen line in the 1950s that seem to be as clear and bright today as they were 70 years ago and require very little attention. The Lyman Alaskan is without a doubt the oldest trouble-free scope that we have seen. What’s more, here at Vintage Gun Scopes we tear scopes apart every day and lots of them. Sure, there are better scopes out there for many applications, but is there any one that has stood as a stalwart for so long? I don’t think so. ![]() In my book, when you consider that it was born in the late 1930s, was a workhorse during a few wars (including one World War), and plenty of people still shoot it on their rifle today for applications from short-range deer hunting to CMP sniper shoots, I think it makes a great argument for being the number one optic of all time. I don’t know if it would be number one, number five, or somewhere in-between, but it would have to be there. If you made a list of the top 5 most robust, ahead-of-their-time optics of all time, you couldn’t make the list without the Alaskan making the list. ![]()
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