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I've seen and even shot at some real nice ones. Try 30 plus, and 34 plus twice. Then there was the book head that myself and two other hunters shot at and missed.
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Maybe it's because your scope really didn't pass the "rock test"...  Just kidding...but I couldn't resist.
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Like big mulies ? I've seen and even shot at some real nice ones. Try 30 plus, and 34 plus twice. Then there was the book head that myself and two other hunters shot at and missed.
How the [bleep] do you miss so much?
I probably hit more elk with a pickup than you have with a rifle. I have yet to see anyone claim Leupold has never had to fix an optic. I know I have sent a few back. 2 MK 6s, a VX-6, and 3 VX-111s.
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I use a walking stick. Do you work for Leupold?
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I've fallen a bunch of times over the years while deer hunting in the Catskills. With steep mountainsides covered in snow and ice it's pretty much inevitable. So far I've never thrown or dropped a rifle but if I figured I needed to to keep from injuring myself I would. Rifles are replaceable and I have a bunch.
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Well, mine passed the cheek test this year. Slipped sideways and fell into the rut on a two track road. I use a Safari Sling, when I fell the butt of the rifle hit the ground and "levered" the scope right upside my head. It kinda' hurt and really pizzed me off. I saw stars..........
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Not being married to any particular political party sure makes it a lot easier to look at the world more objectively...
Having said that, MAGA.
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E, any thing you say about Leupold has to be taken with a grain of salt.
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Actually, I've only missed that one. Then there is the one I hit and was unable to find two years ago. But, like I said, he survived.
The shooting is on running animals who are weaving through the cover in the wash bottoms, etc. You have little time to get on them and shoot. Ranges can be anywhere from 20-300 yds. E
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I use a walking stick. Do you work for Leupold? I do to, it's made by Winchester, they call it a Featherweight I just shove the muzzle in the ground, I don't want to get the butt dirty, it might soil my perfect Kuiu camo getup!!!
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Why on earth wouldn't you use the rifle and scope to actually break your own fall, rather than throw it?
I can replace any stuff, but I can't replace me. The rifle is a tool, and if I need a tool at that moment to break my fall, then the rifle is going to be used that way.
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Just last year I took a tumble with a Leupold scoped rifle.... This... ![[Linked Image]](http://i352.photobucket.com/albums/r325/dogdownproductions/31CA3C7D-731A-4C01-8047-8891C237C113_zpsjxgnasdw.jpg) I took a tumble this year myself. My scope looked very similar, only the dents in the objective were dead center, top. I didn't get a shot at game that day, and switched out rifles for the next morning (I always take a spare). I sent the scope back to Leupold with full disclosure. They returned the scope as good as new, free of charge, and even paid the return shipping.
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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
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I'm gonna stay out of theme rocks from now on.
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Elderly people seem to have the most problems with balance, (grin).
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I... I resemble that remark ! E
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