So who, if more than a riflescope innovator, was James Walter Fecker? Merely one of the most eminent, internationally respected, optical engineers of the first half of the 20th Century, designer of the second largest astronomical telescope on the world at that time, and manufacturer, in his own workshops, of the third largest, along with many others of "major caliber." Excepting a few eccentrics (like this writer) who continue to shoot vintage target rifles, Fecker target scopes are now largely retired from range and field his giant astronomical telescopes, however, and many smaller ones, continue in the 21st Century to search the night sky.Ī career, of some sort, in the optics trade might have been predicted from Fecker�s family history. Very true as far as it goes, this image of Fecker, but little more than a footnote, in fact, to the "other" Fecker story. This term rightly applies not to such externally-adjustable, but general purpose, scopes as the Stevens and Winchester models of the early 1900�s, but rather to those high-powered instruments of superior quality intended expressly for competition, or precision, long-range hunting (of beast or man). Fecker, derives from his development of the modern target-scope. Target shooters and varmint hunters, educated riflemen in general, know that the fame of our old friend, J.
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