We Need an Optics Forum
03-09-2005 | 02:39 PM
#5
Dominant Buck
Joined: Feb 2005
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From: WC FL
RE: We Need an Optics Forum
I wonder how many hunters wound game with open sights on long shots
that THINK they might make it?
When young and had good eyes is different than when you're middle age,
but when you're old it's drastic.
I think even when you are young, you should start out shooting with a scope.
My opinion!!
that THINK they might make it?
When young and had good eyes is different than when you're middle age,
but when you're old it's drastic.
I think even when you are young, you should start out shooting with a scope.
My opinion!!
03-09-2005 | 02:57 PM
#6
Joined: May 2004
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From: SW Virginia
RE: We Need an Optics Forum
Don't need no dang optics forum. Why? Your sighting problems are all taken care of with the following two solutions:
1. Williams Fool Proof Receiver style sight - with large twighlight aparture.
2. Leupold scopes (VXII or VXIII).
Nothing else is needed.
Ok, ok, I'm ducking already!
1. Williams Fool Proof Receiver style sight - with large twighlight aparture.
2. Leupold scopes (VXII or VXIII).
Nothing else is needed.
Ok, ok, I'm ducking already!
03-09-2005 | 04:27 PM
#7
Boone & Crockett
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From: Wall SD USA & Jamestown ND
RE: We Need an Optics Forum
If I had niot started hunting until I could afford a Luepold scope, I would have missed the first 48 years of hunting. My eyes are old and they don't use anything except a good scope or a very good peep sight. I have had at least 50 scopes over the years. Most were Bushnell and Tasco. I never in all of those years had a scope fail and cause me to miss a shot or not provide a clear picture and enough light to make a good shot. I now use a few Luepolds and Swift scopes and like the Aetecs best of all. I hear horror stories of cheap scopes failing. Never had it happen to me. Most of the scope failures that I saw as a gun dealer were caused from poor mounting and just plain abuse. By far the most common problem was adjusting the elevation or windage to the end of their adjustment range and not using the rings and base to do most of the adjustment before they touch the scope adjustment dials. This will wreck a scope in short order.
03-09-2005 | 05:04 PM
#8
Dominant Buck
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From: WC FL
RE: We Need an Optics Forum
ORIGINAL: James B
If I had niot started hunting until I could afford a Luepold scope, I would have missed the first 48 years of hunting. My eyes are old and they don't use anything except a good scope or a very good peep sight. I have had at least 50 scopes over the years. Most were Bushnell and Tasco. I never in all of those years had a scope fail and cause me to miss a shot or not provide a clear picture and enough light to make a good shot. I now use a few Luepolds and Swift scopes and like the Aetecs best of all. I hear horror stories of cheap scopes failing. Never had it happen to me. Most of the scope failures that I saw as a gun dealer were caused from poor mounting and just plain abuse. By far the most common problem was adjusting the elevation or windage to the end of their adjustment range and not using the rings and base to do most of the adjustment before they touch the scope adjustment dials. This will wreck a scope in short order.
If I had niot started hunting until I could afford a Luepold scope, I would have missed the first 48 years of hunting. My eyes are old and they don't use anything except a good scope or a very good peep sight. I have had at least 50 scopes over the years. Most were Bushnell and Tasco. I never in all of those years had a scope fail and cause me to miss a shot or not provide a clear picture and enough light to make a good shot. I now use a few Luepolds and Swift scopes and like the Aetecs best of all. I hear horror stories of cheap scopes failing. Never had it happen to me. Most of the scope failures that I saw as a gun dealer were caused from poor mounting and just plain abuse. By far the most common problem was adjusting the elevation or windage to the end of their adjustment range and not using the rings and base to do most of the adjustment before they touch the scope adjustment dials. This will wreck a scope in short order.
James, when I was 18 and in the US army,I was on the shooting team. Shooting with Peep Sight on the
M1-Garand.
Now I can't even SEE the Peep Sight, just a blurred piece of metal!!!
