Found this info in an article on-line - guess the scope could be more recent than I thought, anyone have any other info/opinions of this scope?
(author was talking about scoping a Romanian trainer 22 which he wanted a trim, straight tube scope for)
"By coincidence, a few months after acquiring the 1969, I happened to stop at a garage sale. I saw a long, slender riflescope with rings lying on a table. I figured it was a inexpensive ".22 scope", the type of scope with plastic lenses and casual adjustments. I picked it up and looked through it at a distant house. Wow, nice clear optics, no fuzzy hallo! It was at its lowest power, 3. I cranked it to the top, 6 power. Everything still was clear and bright. Only then did I check its pedigree. Weaver! A V22-A. I snapped it right up.
The Weaver V22-A is a US made scope that was produced in the old El Paso facility. The last year the V-22A was available as a new item was about 1986. The V22-A is a 7/8-diameter tube scope, 12.5 inches long. An1/8 inch narrower then most scopes, the V22-A maintains the trim lines on the 1969. 1/8 inch doesn't sound like much, but it makes all the difference on a slender rifle like the 1969. With quality optics the V22-A is a premium scope. Remember, the V22-A was a 7/8-tube scope. Weaver supplied it with 7/8 diameter rings at the factory. A Weaver V22-A just "looks right" on a 1969 Romanian.
Quick checks of several gun shops, gun shows and listings on ebay,
http://www.ebay.com reveal V-22A's are readily available at bargain prices. Clean V-22A's sell for $25.00 to $35.00. Often, they can be had for much less! The one I acquired at the yard sale cost me $5.00. I found a second one in a gun shop for $10.00. It seems scopes of less then one-inch diameter aren't considered high demand items these days. They don't command high prices. There's no new scope in the $35.00 price range that could come anywhere near the optical quality and adjustment repeatability of the V22-A."
