
It was a fine scope in its day, but its been surpassed by modern scopes and today its valued more by collectors than field users. To give modern performance to these old style scopes, we have utilized modern lens coatings and manufacturing practices. The Hawk was a 4X hunting scope manufactured by Unertl between 1950-1980. The only difference with our Malcolm Optics is the glass. Classic Unertl Scopes Unertl scopes from the 1950s and 60s era were probably the prominent target scope made in that era. Unertl 15x 2 Objective, 1 Tube Long Range/Target Scope W/ Adj Parallax. The company continued in business until WWII, even though some new optical technologies, which would make these telescopic steel tube scopes obsolete.Īs a tribute to William Malcolm, our modern Malcolm vintage reproduction scopes are constructed to same specs with the general look and feel of the original scopes. By the turn of the 20 th Century, Malcolm had become the leading scope manufacturer in the U.S. He understood that a riflescope must be properly constructed to hold zero. In 1855, William Malcolm started building riflescopes. in custom scopes built to satisfy the needs of the competitive, hunting and. However it would not be until the mid 1800s that rifles became sufficiently accurate to require a telescopic sight. manufacturer of custom riflescopes and optics for 28. These had all the optical quality that was necessary for a rifle telescope. Good terrestrial telescopes were being built by the early 1700’s.
