Looks good to me!

If you get sick of that Facts about Telescopic Sights, Rich, I'd like to buy it. I have the 1954 Facts about Hunting Sights but Cornell Publications didn't seem to have the later one, last time I looked.

Better still, let Cornell reprint it and then spread the joy to the world!

Does that one show the daisy-wheel mounts, or were they still making the plunger type then?

Daisy wheel and the 24x unertl type scope.

and their tapered crosshairs - to bad nobody has been smart emuf to bring them back - still gotone

Thanks Rich and Butchloc, that's good to know.

I have two B&ls with the tapering reticle - and one is just a 4x fixed power.

What does the tapered crosshair have over the duplex??, other than its no longer an option..

Well Ray, it didn't have any particular advantage in fixed-power scopes but was the FFP answer to reticles growing as you turned up the power in variables. You couldn't use it as a rangefinder, though. Back in the early '60s, the duplex was less common than it is now and some of the other reticles became a bit of a nuisance if you zoomed up the power on long shots.

Much as I like the old German #1, holding over distant rabbits can be a chore with it.

I suspect that's so, back in the day, and probably not all that bad today..I like and have a tapered cross hair Leupold 3X but prefer the standard duplex for all my hunting..Im not at all fond of fine target cross hairs as they don't fit my chosen discipline, that being hunting..