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I’m the luckiest sumbitch on the www I guess!! 😂😂

En route to Idaho right now with a couple leupold variables, I’m very concerned.. haha

Oh shut up and go kill a big buck..... lucky bastard

Find I’m turning around and going home!!!


Haha

🤣🤣

Got the old truck with a new set of diggers on er weather looks promising, pics to follow, if I don’t have a scope failure!!!

Go back to your couch Jud before you hurt yourself......

I’ve shot hundreds of rounds at paper. For every one shot at game. Never had but one scope fail me on a hunting trip.
But I’ve had several fail at the range. The one failure was the one I least expected. A steel tube Kahles 3-12x56.
Hasbeen

It is.
I don't understand the fascination with long range deer hunting.
If you have called strutting turkeysyou will understand the excitement of bringing your game in close. With deer, you can rattle them in or hunt the scrapes. Other ways to get close. It is a real thrill. When I was younger we walked up our deer in the chained cedar and shot them in motion.
Todays scopes are too big for that or have reticles which are rather complicated for close in shooting. I guess you can use a red dot but I don't really care for them.
I don't need big objective lenses as our deer are as lazy as me and don't start moving until about 8:00am. Now the big ones do come out right at dusk but it is more to go find their beds and kick them out.
I don't need fast focus or all matter of dots and lines in the view.
I only need a 2x or 3x or the traight 4x such as this Burris Short Mag. A 1.5-4 or 5x variable is fine. The Weaver V-3 is hard to beat.
There is a market for after market dots and cross hairs. Maybe some will fill the void.
Winchester Big Bore .307 Burris Short Mag


Winchester Big Bore .444 Marlin Weaver 2x with 5 minute Lee Scope Dot


Ruger .358 Winchester American rifle Weaver V-3

Good luck rattling in a mule deer..... and finding a scrape.... jeesh

Haha I’m not worried about me, I’m worried about my scopes!!! 😂😂

I would worry also.... but hey the warranty is great.....
Good luck brother Jud

P.S. I still use Leupolds at times...

Take enough shells?...grin....

At least the Coues are safe. Good luck Jud

Georgia buck died thru a NF yesterday. Could have done it with a Leupold. 😎

Got 50 204 and 10 6AI, should be able to get er done!!! Haha

Nice

We are asking for a lot in a 300.00 scope. A scope selling, on a good deal, for 300.00 will carry at least a 20% margin as it goes through the wholesale retail distribution. A 20% margin means the scope manufacturer received 240.00. A rule of thumb for manufacturers requires the manufacturing cost including a manufacturing profit margin to be 50% of what they sell an item for. The other half of the 240.00 they would receive goes to the cost of marketing and includes expenses like warranty costs, advertising and promotions and marketing profit.

So in simpler terms, that good deal on 300.00 scope means that you are purchasing a scope that has to have a raw manufacturing cost of 100.00 or less.

Congrats Beav... Beautiful deer, I like dark horns and cape... very cool.

Leupold's do work well East of the Mississippi...... did you see Gus or Hatari?

I didn’t see Gus. He was busy meditating on the meaning of sea life and man living in harmony....My host knows hat, and said he’s always working pulling teeth and posting political satire.

Fun fact...Georgia has 1.4 million deer. Who knew? Rednecks have all the luck! Grins 😎

Beav, you are lucky the snakes, gators and chiggers didn't get ya...........

Brother,

I walked with me eyes down every step of the way to avoid snakes...Ticks and Chigs - No worries. I duct taped my ankles and wrists. Kidding. 😂 But, I did steal my dogs flea collar and wore it...

I Love our Western hunting. Pretty simple hunting style. Good area, good bins, good scope, good rifle, good to go....No worries about stepping on something lethal.

Headed home tomorrow....😎