Yo Tzone...
Swung the spotting scope over to the object and there was a guy standing in some shoulder high brush looking at me with binoculars.
The moral of the story is don't point stuff that looks like a gun (like a spotting scope mounted on a rifle stock) at people, as people will shoot back at you if they perceive they are threatened.
Plenty of rifles out there with Hubble-Esq optics, and it would be way easy to confuse the two.
