I took it as such, no problem. However, I must confess that I did baptize my old Model 70 .270 Winchester push feed once when I first got it back in 1966. It had a 4x Redfield on it at the time and I went to cross what appeared to be a very small creek, I'm talking about 3 feet wide. But the damn thing was about 5 foot deep. I just stepped right in the middle of it and down I went. Of course I got the rifle back out of the water within about a second so it didn't have long to get soaked. But still I'm not even a Navy Seal, LOL!
BTW, I still have both the rifle and the scope and they're none the worse for wear, though they haven't been together for nearly 40 years. The .270 has had several scopes on it since then and now sports a Leupold VX-2 4-12x40 and the 4x Redfield has been on my Winchester '94 Angle Eject since the early 80s when I bought that rifle.
Last edited by Filaman; 08/17/20.
