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RE: Scope fog
Are you guys afraid of putting Rain-x on your scope? Has anyone already done this?
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RE: Scope fog
Be careful with Rain X. Its good stuff for car. But it may damage the seals in the scope. I'm not sure what is in it.
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RE: Scope fog
ORIGINAL: Bulzeye In addition to preventative products and thoughtful breathing practices, I recommend keeping a clean dry soft cloth handy to wipe fog off if it does happen. It may save you a lost shot, and you really don't want to use your finger or a dirty glove if you can help it. |
RE: Scope fog
I have heard, from others, that Rain-X and scopes should not be mixed. Never tried it myself. I have used a spray called Parker's Perfect that seemed to work o.k...not great but o.k.
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RE: Scope fog
Im having flashbacks to last day of the 2005 buck season. Blue ball cold that morn and I see a 6 point trotting across the other side of the holler...first thing I do is get excited and breath on my scope..lol. Thankfully the deer wasnt moving fast and the fog left quickly and there was t'loin on the stove in the cabin that night.
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RE: Scope fog
Use to be a common thing to have a scope fog up internally, especially "if" you hunted in freezeing/thawing weather. Just hunting all day out in freezing weather and then bringing your rifle into a warmer tent would sometimes do it.
I can remember leaving my rifle out in the cold for entire hunts, rather than take a chance on my scope fogging. I was spending a lot of time hunting in weather like that, so i started testing my new scopes by putting them in the freezer for a day or two. Then i'd put them in a pan of warm water and look for bubbles rising. It i saw the teltale bubbles rising, i knew that scope wasn't going on my rifles, untill it took a trip back to the factory. These days scopes are sealed up much better than the older scopes were. With modern O-rings ect., it's got a lot easier on the scope mfg-ures... A friend wrote an article on Mueller scopes, and while he was doing so, i suggested he give it the freezer/warm water test. I told him i wouldn'twant one on a gun of mine, "if" it couldn't pass that test.He took the challenge and froze the scope. A day later it went into a pan of warm water, and no bubbles came up. Use to be, cheap scope= a scope that fogged! Not any more... DM |
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