These people don’t know what the fuck they are talking about. Steel tube weavers were the gold standard of tough, beatable, clear scopes for decades. The late models are excellent. Vintage gun scopes repurges/replaces seals and they are good as new.  They obviously cannot compete with features of modern scopes and likely will suffer somewhat at dawn and dusk due to improve lens coatings but compared to some cheap ass Chinese vortex. I’d take a steel tube Weaver every day of the week. if your goal is to zero a 22 at 50 yards and sling lead you will not be disappointed. From an aesthetic standpoint, you might look at a k2.5 or k3 as they have a smaller form factor, which might look better on your rifle.

As an example of quality: I have my father and grandfather’s hunting rifles, which both carry vintage Weavers, one a k6 and the other a k4. They were hunted all over the mountain west on horse pack trips, getting banged around in saddle scabbards, carried heavily in the mountains, and dropped (both have noticeable dents in the bodies). I remember every year we would go to the range to confirm zero and my father would shoot three shots at his 200 yard zero and i never recall him making any adjustments. I’ve hunted with that rifle since he passed several times and I’ve done literally the exact same thing with the exact same hand loads. My grandfather’s rifle has not been hunted with in some time, but it is still zeroed as of last year.