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Well, this thread turned in to a Sport's Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Lot of nice racks there Judman.

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Didja pm “the man” about that Burris before you bought it?

Happy thanksgiving to you and your family as well Joel

I like Leupold. I also like Meopta and Nightforce. Rock on, Jud.

That said, I’d take a nightforce to a third world country to shoot bad guys.

I don’t know, Leupold only has 0.003% failure rate. Ha

Epic!

And that’s not all yet 16.... grin

Got more bone yet

Never seen a nightfarce either...



Though it’s coming off and getting replaced with a leupold before next year..

Triggered! Hey sometimes a guy just likes to stir [bleep] up , no problem haha.

Got to thinking back, never had a problem killing something with Leupold.. only scope related issue on a hunt was due to a loose base.

However they are atrocious in the mechanical department and have had many many that are simply unacceptable to do anything with but set and forget.

Keep off the turret and enjoy your Leupolds, no reason to get butt hurt over it. If you start really shooting a lot you’ll soon find that hits come a lot easier when [bleep] actually works. That isn’t a dig at not shooting, you don’t need to shoot 1,000s of rounds at the range yo be an excellent hunter. No one said you did, but if you can wrap your head around guys that really enjoy both then it really isn’t tough to figure out.

Every critter but one hanging in my loading room was done in with a Leupold. Not a big deal, I keep a few old heads in that room to remind me of friends that were on those hunts that are gone now, not necessarily for trophy quality.

Anymore pics of the antelope on the left?

well, imma go out on a limb and give you my .02 on things and its not just scopes either. i lump pretty much all commercially sell-able goods here. we,as a public with all the power i.e. money,have just taken whatever and not forced product manufacturers to produce goods without defects that shoulda never left the factory . we have proven that we will still buy half assed products and pay even more than before. so, really what does that say about us as a whole?? we accept way more than we should imho. i mean i know nothing is perfect but when you pay north of a grand or some even twice that for a scope,staying with optics here, it should be spot on a not have any issues. i think we have cut the qc guy out and will let anything go and hope the consumer doesn't notice the issue.
Big Ed

No butthurt, but when someone keeps tellin you you are ignorant, don’t hunt, don’t use your gear etc, well if that’s not proof, I don’t know what is... as far as punching paper, it means absolutely nothing to me, I’m a hunter, when I’m not hunting I’m researching hunting, doing yard work, fishing, drinking beer, spending time with the commander or now, with my grandson, Target shootin doesn’t interest me in the least, if that’s your thing rock on, buuuuuut, don’t tell me I don’t know wtf is going on when it comes to hunting/killin and what it takes to get it done...

I don’t . I think I only have kill photos of one of the deer up there. All three of the skull capped antelope will make b&c, the one to the right of that one is the biggest of the bunch even though he doesn’t look it in the picture.

Leupolds worked great when I was younger. Grin

Pretty nice collection Jud’.

Good antelope there rosco, shot lots of em just no bigguns... gonna cash max Wyoming points in next year, take as much time as needed and booner or bust

Max you say... we should talk 😜

I can draw any tag in the state, thinkin 114 , 61, 62???

Got max deer and elk too if you have any advice!! 😂😂

I hope Chris doesn't drop the price of the 5-20x50 HD like he did last year. If he does I'll have to buy another one.

im Sitting on max elk and one behind on deer.. I think my elk points will be spent on a late migration tag, My main hunting buddy has a guide license in Wyoming so I’m good there, just need to get off our asses and do it.

On the antelope I’m sure all of those units hold more than a few of what you’re after.

On second look I don’t think 114 would be in the running.