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Kahles 3-9 x 42……but what model?

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 1:51 am
by Rod
I picked up a second hand, as new, Kahles today…..but I haven’t a clue as to which model. Any suggestions?

Kahles, aluminium tube, 1” , 3-9 x 42.

Thanks Rod
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Re: Kahles 3-9 x 42……but what model?

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:08 am
by 9.3x64
Looks like a 3-9x42 KX to me....
On second thoughts it looks like the previous model.
Either way it’s a keeper, love Khales scopes.

Re: Kahles 3-9 x 42……but what model?

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 5:06 am
by Rod
9.3x64 wrote: Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:08 am Looks like a 3-9x42 KX to me....
On second thoughts it looks like the previous model.
Either way it’s a keeper, love Khales scopes.
Yeah....and I guess it doesn't matter really. But, it would be nice to know.

Cheers
Rod

Re: Kahles 3-9 x 42……but what model?

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 5:26 am
by SPEEDY
Can you do a serial number check on it?

Re: Kahles 3-9 x 42……but what model?

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 5:44 am
by Rod
I’ll try 👍

Re: Kahles 3-9 x 42……but what model?

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 12:12 pm
by stokesrj
I agree with others, a great scope, no matter the specific model number. I also understand your desire to know, hopefully some one will be able to identify the specific model or a serial number will reveal that information. Let us know what you find out.

Re: Kahles 3-9 x 42……but what model?

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 3:09 pm
by robban.jagaren

Re: Kahles 3-9 x 42……but what model?

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:39 pm
by Rod
Thanks for the replies fellas. I sent off an e-mail to Kahles with details and serial number. Hopefully, I'll get a reply. If not, it doesn't matter.....the optics are brilliant .

Rod

Re: Kahles 3-9 x 42……but what model?

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 6:10 pm
by SPEEDY
Funny thing is I've got KX and CL and stupidly sold a AH model, but they all said what they were apart from the CL, so I'm picking it's a CL.

Re: Kahles 3-9 x 42……but what model?

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 9:32 pm
by Rod
Heard back from Kahles today. The scope is an AH (American Hunter) made in 2002 and intended for the US market.

Re: Kahles 3-9 x 42……but what model?

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 11:23 pm
by SPEEDY
I was almost going to say an AH, but mine had AH and assembled in the USA on it.

Re: Kahles 3-9 x 42……but what model?

Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:05 am
by Rod
Below is the link to the original brochure that Kahles sent me for this scope.

Interesting that it says the scope is a “CT American Hunter”. No mention of where it’s made and or assembled either on the scope or in the brochure. Interesting but not important.

Anyway, it’s a bloody nice scope 👍

https://www.kahles.at/fileadmin/downloa ... Hunter.pdf

Re: Kahles 3-9 x 42……but what model?

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 3:30 pm
by Old Waltonian
I have come to the party rather late on this but as the owner of several Kahles scopes, I could not resist chipping in. My understanding of the 'CT' designation was that it originally meant 'Compact'; that being a specific reference to the size of the ocular (eyepiece), which on Kahles 'scopes for the American market were not 'oversize', as they were on all their models made for the European market.

As a picture is worth a thousand words, however, I have attached one showing my Kahles KX 2-7x36 (with 1 inch tube) mounted on a .22LR rifle which illustrates the large ocular (and which both 36mm and 42mm objective 'scopes shared). I actually took this five years ago, when I bought the 'scope and it is now destined for a Blaser K95 in .222 Remington, a rifle which will realise its potential far more than its present partner.
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Re: Kahles 3-9 x 42……but what model?

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:39 pm
by SPEEDY
I've got the 2-7's on a 22lr, 22 hornet, 30-06 and one spare I take away in case something goes wrong on one of those.
Brilliant scopes, I've also had the 3-10x50's which are brilliant in very low light. But the compact little 2-7's are my all time favourite scopes.

Re: Kahles 3-9 x 42……but what model?

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 6:15 pm
by Old Waltonian
'But the compact little 2-7's are my all time favourite scopes'

That's an enviable little collection that you have and I absolutely agree with you. It's still a 'close call' for me, though, because my other two Kahles 'scopes are a 4x36 and a 6x42 and whilst regarded as 'old school' by today's standards, have incredible image brightness and a super-wide field of view.