I’m always on the lookout for new products, parts, and accessories for this rifle. I do shoot pistols on occasion, but I’m really a died in the wool rifle shooter. Unertl is now expanding into new product lines as well as having plans to produce many of the older model scopes. They are even used on the 50 BMG Barrett and that takes a tuff scope! The USMC first used the 8X Unertl on the M1903 Sniper Rifle and later a great 10X Unertl was the choice for the M40A1 and later models. That’s a good indication that something must be right about them. Unertl made the scopes for the United States Marines. they aren’t! Unertl has always made products that I like to call “bullet proof” for their quality and durability. You know, those long tubes with the external adjustments that look delicate…. The Unertl Optical Company (Las Vegas, NV) is well known in shooting circles as a manufacturer of quality target rifle scopes of the old style. It was a test of stamina to hold and shoot that bull barreled rifle with it’s big Unertl! But, shoot it would and the Unertl was absolutely the best choice of optics at the time. My rifle was a bull barreled Winchester Model 52C and I topped it off with a 12 power Unertl 2 Inch Programmer. Seems like an eternity ago, but I still have the trophy if anyone would like to see it. The high light of my small bore rifle shooting carrier was winning the Nevada State Championship in 1983. I wasn’t a particularly good small bore shooter, but I did manage to win the National Guard’s Chief of the Guard Bureau annual State matches four out of five times I competed. Retrieved 24 July 2013.At one time, many years ago, I dabbled in small bore rifle shooting along with my favorite sport of high power rifle. Sniper Rifles: From the 19th to the 21st Century. The one-round war: USMC scout-snipers in Vietnam. Flayderman's Guide to Antique American Firearms and Their Values. Stalkers and Shooters: A History of Snipers. Crosshairs on the Kill Zone: American Combat Snipers, Vietnam through Operation Iraqi Freedom. Very sophisticated optical/mechanical instrumentation for government.MST-100 10× for 7.62×51mm (Used by the Marine Corps, FBI & Canada).Hunting Scopes "Falcon", "Hawk" & "Condor", 2 3/4×, 4× & 6× respectively.
The last John Unertl, John Robert Unertl, after leaving the company worked his way up to Division President of the optical instrument division of Leitz. And while the company was well known for its rifle scopes, it’s major revenue came from high end optical systems made for various branches of government including very sophisticated optical/mechanical instrumentation, optics for military jet gunsights, fire control optics, and wind tunnel instrumentation ( Schlieren photography systems for the Naval Surface Weapon Center in White Oak, MD). started the company and ran it until his death. There were actually three successive "John Unertls". By 2008 the company had closed its doors. By 2006 the company had begun marketing firearms in addition to their line of scopes including a civilian copy of the Marine Corps MEU(SOC) pistol and the M40A3 Sniper Rifle. In the early 2000s the Marine Corps began phasing out Unertl Scopes in favor of other scopes like the Schmidt & Bender 3–12×50 Police Marksman II LP. Rocky Greene) and the headquarters was moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2002 the company was purchased by 21st Century Technology, Inc. The company was most notable for its MST-100 (7.62mm) and MST-150 (.50 caliber) 10× scope used by the USMC Scout-Sniper program and the first scope to use a Mil-Dot reticle. John Unertl founded the John Unertl Optical Company in 1934 and the company manufactured military sniper scopes during World War II.
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