The Parallax Perfect K6-1

If you like to make one ragged hole in your target, this is the best scope I’ve ever known to deliver that. I’ve used the K6-1 as an accuracy test scope for over 40 years and still haven’t found its equal. It’s also my first choice for my vintage open country big game rifles of 70’s/80’s eras.

It was 1984. I was 16. I pulled into my old gunsmith’s yard in the sandhills of Nebraska. It was a place in the middle of nowhere that seemed frozen in the 1920’s. As always, he saw me coming from his house and greeted me, coffee in hand, halfway to the one-horse carriage house that he used as a shop. After a greeting he said “James, I have some bad news. There will never be a great scope made again in my lifetime and maybe not in yours. Weaver just closed up shop. I suggest that you go to all of the sporting goods stores and buy up all that remain. Put enough of them in your closet so you will always have a great scope to put on any gun you have or ever get.”

And I did exactly that. I especially sought all of the K6-1 and II’s that I could find as we used those scopes for hunting but also as test scopes. They were the most parallax perfect scopes we ever found as we shot together for extreme accuracy. If a gun started acting up and we wanted to begin the process of eliminating variables, the first thing we did was clean the rifle, but next was to put a Weaver K6-1 on it to eliminate the current scope as the problem. In order to demonstrate the extreme variability in parallax from one factory scope to another, he would set two or three more expensive brands next to the Weaver K6-1 and nothing ever held a candle to the dead nuts of a K6-1 or II. Additionally, the heavy duty construction of the scope pretty much made you think it was good forever, and for the most part it is.

I don’t remember Al’s age at the time but I would guess late 70’s. He was right. He never lived to see another great scope made. You can argue that I haven’t either when you consider that most of the great scopes made today have not been made to be able to be broken down and fixed by a competent scopesmith. Rather, even the great brands of today rely on the disposable warranty and replace method. The Weaver dash one series will still be around when every scope made today is non-functional. They will be kept going by gun owners that understand the difference.

Now 42 years later, Vintage Gun Scopes is restoring the dash one series of Weavers made from 1973-77. Beginning with my favorite, the K6-1. We have a very limited quantity of these ready to go. After these are gone, you can waitlist the scope on our website for when another batch is complete in 4-6 months. For a link to the fully restored K6-1 click here. If you don’t need shiny fresh bluing, you can buy an original refurbished crosshair model click here. For an original refurbished duplex model click here. You can also send us your K6-1 for restoration here.

We think Al would be proud. I certainly am to be able to make the K6-1’s ready for the next 40 years.