I have to say I still have a battered Gold Crown that I've had kicking around for the last 7 years, and that's been bolted onto everything from my rabbitting rimmie (and repeatedly dragged around the Aberdeenshire countryside in sub-zero conditions) to a 7.62 FN that I used for
Sanglier hunting in France (where it was repeatedly dragged around the baking French countryside in a major heatwave).
Right now it's bolted onto my Axsor and it's still holding perfect zero, is clearer than my ageing eyesight needs and has never needed attention.
They might be cheap scopes - but they so seem to do what they say on the tin ............... with a modicum of commen sense applied of course. Sticking one on a PAK* might well give it conniptions.
*PAK=Panzer Abwehr Kanone
.........und die power wird mit dir sein.........
Feror cupidine partium interdum Europae vincendarum magnarum
I get this urge to conquer parts of Europe and, sometimes, large men