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Old 10-17-2007 | 06:42 PM
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Ok so I work in the leather business and I have alot of Amish shops that do work for me. Most of them are bowhunters. This guy has a new innovated sight every year. I had to take a picture for you guys. Yes, they are rifle sights mounted on what used to be a contractor's level. Surprisingly, he isn't half bad with it. It's not quiet, the string rubs, and it ain't pretty but he's creative. He said his next idea involves a pistol scope.

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Old 10-17-2007 | 07:05 PM
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He's creative to say the least. It's pretty cool to see what people can make.
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Old 10-17-2007 | 07:18 PM
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Ingenious.Technology has nothing over good, old-fashioned ingenuity.
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Old 10-17-2007 | 07:27 PM
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ORIGINAL: PatrickMc

Ingenious.Technology has nothing over good, old-fashioned ingenuity.
That is what makes technology possible.


Did you tell him about the hindsight?
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Old 10-17-2007 | 07:27 PM
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I am sure I would injure myself with that.

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Old 10-17-2007 | 07:32 PM
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Yeah, inventive but I wonder how many deer he's poached with that, the Amish in this area are famous for overkill.[&:]
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Old 10-17-2007 | 07:37 PM
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Insane is more like it, not ingenious. Why don't he just a match stick scotched taped to the riser[&:]
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Old 10-17-2007 | 07:37 PM
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He may be creative to you... to me he's a nut case.[8D] Putting rifle sights on a level plane just doesn't do it for me.. a bow hunter.
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Old 10-17-2007 | 07:40 PM
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One this is for sure, I have 18 shops and like 2 of them don't shoot the first antlered deer they see. Its unreal, about a third of them are in Western PA and the rest in SW New York. I know there is big deer in a few of these areas but they are mostly meat hunters.
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Old 10-17-2007 | 07:42 PM
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O I am not putting my stamp of approval on this invention of his, I just thought it was intersting.
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