My new-to-me drilling came with a Carl Zeiss Jena 6x42 ZF, claw mounts and mated to the gun. I am extremely satisfied with the optics - in decent daylight I can easily see the staples holding the target from 100 yards away. Grouping and consistency are also excellent.
While I want to and will work on my shooting a little bit more before monkeying with the settings, I am left to wonder which of the two knobs atop the barrel of the ZF are windage and which elevation. Unlike standard American scopes with one on top and one on the side, these are both on top and aligned with the centerline of the barrel.
Thanks in advance.
Dave,
I believe the old Weatherby scopes were made by them; maybe you can find English instructions for one of those.
Mike
Thanks for the lead, Ami. Let me share what I've found.
Turns out the Weatherby Imperial scopes were made about 1964-73 by Hertel & Reuss, a high-end optical manufacturer then of Kassel and now out of the scope business. The Hertel & Reuss name continues not as an independent company but as a trade name owned and used by a successor company. They finish opera glasses in Marburg an der Lahn. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertel_%26_Reuss Other, later Weatherby scopes were made in Japan (not that that's necessarily a bad thing).
The Imperials share with my Carl Zeiss a similar arrangement of knobs. Interestingly, the ocular-end knob is for focusing. The objective-end knob controls both traverse and elevation. That knob has 2 concentric dials, one for traverse and the other for elevation. The inner knob appears to want a special tool (naturally). I have not yet found instructions anywhere, especially for which direction of the knob moves impact which way.
So, it seems adjusting the load and my shooting might be easier and more reliable than trying to (a) find a special tool and (b) guesstimate how many clicks and which way....
Dave,
Thanks for the info.
Mike
Is this the kind of scope you are referring to?
It was made by Carl Zeiss in Jena and it has only an elevation adjustment. The other knob adjusts the focus. This is the kind of scope Zeiss furnished BRNO for their ZKK 600. 601 and 602 rifles, with special windage adjustable mounts to fit the integral bases.
