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5sdad,



That sounds difficult.

I have but not regulary. Never thought that it would be a problem and hasn't been.

I do. They make a fair carry handle especially if you have your sling off.

My scope has fogged up externally from the heat generated from my hand on occasion. Especially if it is moist out or quite cold-say 15 degrees Farenheit, like it sometimes is here. As a result, I am careful not to carry it that way then.

Gary

JFC, are you guys buying scopes made out of paper towel tubes?

I have way too many scoped rifles. I also have a bad habit when I buy a new scope in that the purchase may result in several changes on rifles other than the one the purchase was made for. I also have a few extra scopes in a drawer that I get to thinking it needs to be on a particular rifle. I change scopes too often.

I do have two rifles that have worn the same glass for well over twenty years. I think the scope makes a good handle if the mounts are high enough. These two are carried by the scope and I cannot rember how long it has been since the reticles need to be adjusted. I did buy a good supply of ammo that they liked back when.

Jack

I would if it made a better handle. My fingers don't fit under the scope.

Steve.

Maybe that's why I don't - I always use the lowest rings I can get away with.

Agreed x2. Big hands and low scope mounts make using any of my scopes as a handle near to impossible. Not sure I'd go that route even if I was a skinny-fingered high-scope-shootin type of guy. If not slung my scoped rifles usually get carried one-handed from right under the balance point of the stock.

This is some funny stuff.

I carry by the scope often. I've used the rifle as a 'climbing' stick often. I've used the rifle to brace me crossing streams/rivers, often.


Aside from borrowing a sling from a pard last year, so I could climb into a deer stand, I can't tell you the last time I used a sling.

I wouldn't even consider hunting where/the way I hunt without a sling.

How do you hunt that requires a sling?

I keep one in my pack or cargo pocket for freeing up both hands when needed but then it wouldn't be considered hunting at that point.
As far as using my scope for a handle goes? Not for anything length of time or for very far.

How on Earth do people shoot without completely entangling themselves in a sling? Do they actually hit something?

You ever been sitting on your butt, or shooting offhand, without sticks, bipod, anything? Tightening the sling around your arm helps, a bunch.

Slings are necessary for me. When I get where I going to hunt out come the binoculars.

No, I only shoot from a bench. I'll give it a try, thanks!

And then what? No ground where you hunt?

It was a stupid question BTW.

Well duh,,, why don't you tell us something we don't know...

Thus the reason you are always in search of the 5 pound rifle. Packing the 50 pound bench out in the field is a pain the in the azz.....