Oldelkhunter,

I liked the idea of looking at the light weight components - and will look into the COnetrol or Gentry rings - but had an expensive season <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>!!! and won't be buying any other scopes for a few months. Bad enough I spent this money.

Tough here (Santa Barbara - Antihunting Capitol of the World) to get anything out of the ordinary..but hope to learn about and get some of these things and pick them up when I travel or off the web maybe.

As for the prone position shooting.. first, guess I lucked out - being short on pocket money and the scope I put on is the Conquest - so a little more eye releif, but I don't really do any long ranging and if I do it's with my Sako 300 Win - not this guy I bought for something a bit more speedy to the shoulder when hunting whitetails in the Green Mountains and other points Northeast. I may use it for high alpine hunting in Wyoming and California but will have to sneak closer or take the risk with a prone shot. Beleive me, if the deer is big enough, I'll gladly take the bloody eyebrow to connect - just popping for another scope right now was not in the cards before the end of the quarter.