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I think Yobuck hit it on the nose. I had them on my rifles for the very reason he mentioned. With iron sights when you got a blob of snow on them you could just blow it off, with a scope you would fog it up. trying to wipe it off still left your scope blurry until the water dried. Or if you were walking through the woods and pulled the gun up to shoot and there was snow on the lens it was easy to flip the scope out of the way. Fixed scopes of the day were quite reliable just not as clear and bright as todays.

Every branch held snow. I don't have a lot of picks from those days but here you can see the background and this was light and under the heavy canopy at camp.


Deer hunting Oconto County WI 1971 or 72



When a shop was closing out their scope mounts I bought a whole box of these.