Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics How important is alpha scope glass for your hunts ?

This alone makes you a somnabitch, your glass comparison notwithstanding.

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My eye sight isn't 20-20 anymore. My eye doctor says he could get rid of the cloudiness, but I'd have to stop shooting while the artificial lenses settled in.

I read this and laughed my ass off

It was a little obvious that the core group of defenders of mechanics over glass in scopes were absent from this thread for the most part.

Paging....JORDAN ! 😬

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I figure the guys who run dials, also know how to read, and can comprehend what they read...They saw nothing here worth chatting about, because this wasn’t about glass over dialing, just a straightforward glass quality in a scope question.

There’s room in hunting for everyone to own, use, and be successful hunting with whatever they feel will work for them in their necks of the wilderness.

Well I have a early 1980’s Weaver 3x9 40mm with Micro track and I have shot a Beaver at night with no light in a cornfield and when I went to go retrieve it I tripped on it as it was that dark. Held zero for years in Weaver mounts never had a problem. I think all this talk is 99% BS as most quality scopes will suffice for Big Game hunting 30minutes before sunrise and 30m after sunset.
Yes just this year I put on a on my Rifle thinking 40 years is a long time for a scope. Is my new scope better time will tell how it holds up.

You snobs can have all the alpha glass you want. I get by just fine with my omega stuff.

You snobs can have all the alpha glass you want. I get by just fine with my omega stuff.

Ok how about Schlitz malt liquor? Or perhaps Mickey’s Big Mouths

Tripping on beaver in a corn field... sounds like high school.

Paul, when you were riding competitively, how much was your bicycle?

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So I think we’ve decided, if you can’t kill it with a 6X36 or SS 3-9 it doesn’t need killing.

You snobs can have all the alpha glass you want. I get by just fine with my omega stuff.

Hah, you got that right, Beav!

If we're talking about sacrificing mechanics (holding zero, tracking, etc.) to get a marginal increase in optical performance, then it becomes a different conversation! A simple discussion about each person's choice of where to land on the sliding scale of optical quality is just that, simple. Depending on what a guy uses his scope for, and what he wants to do, non-alpha glass is perfectly fine until it isn't.

For what I do, sub-alpha glass is perfectly fine in my riflescopes.

Pretty much, but don’t forget the iron sights fanboys, who don’t need no stinking glass to kill shît.

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