Originally Posted by
Alsatian
the point is don't skimp on the rifle/scope combination when you are paying thousands for a hunt.
That all I was trying to say.
I guided for wt in Texas back in the day. I seen almost every brand of gun/ scope fail... some due to lack of care, jamming and others due to accidents (dropping).. scope fail more often than anything else (moisture, fogging, or mounted incorrectly). Two years ago my dad took a spill crossing a creek and him and his gun went completely under after rushing him back to the vehicle, we returned to retrieve his gun about thirty min later. We pulled the rifle out of the creek and it froze to solid ice instantly. Once at camp we took the entire gun down to the firing pin.. Cleaned, dried and lubed, we took it for a test run the next morning, still dead on and functioning perfect. That's all you could ask for.