Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Opinions Of Butler Creek Scope Caps???

I use the see-thru caps on all my scopes as I have a terrible time with anything that isn't fastened... however, my loss is your gain and if you are up in the high-country of Colorado and find one of the many bikinis I have lost up there -- you are WELCOME!

Anyway, they work for me and are better for quick target acquisition than anything else I have found.

Mark

You're telling me!--but I figured that out before you moved there...........

Casey

I like the see thru ones that just have the tab on the side. Don't like the solid ones with the push button as you can't shoot in a pinch. I have twice had to take game without enough time to flip the caps open, the see thru feature saved the day. If I had to take 2 extra seconds to flip them open , no game would have gone down.

Also gives me an added level of comfort during snow, rain, and hail and on the quad with mud flying everywhere.

I've used them a bunch. They are fine most of the time, but in all-day rain, the lenses get wet anyway, which is frustrating and could be a problem. Many's the time I've flipped 'em open after hours in the drizzle to find... wet, fogged lenses. Not good.

The Leupold ones are much more expensive and work much better but only fit recent Loopy scopes.

-jeff

I don't deal with too much precipitation like Jeff mentioned above, but mine have kept my lenses pretty clear while hunting and shooting in CO. I think I like them because of convenience more than anything.

I think they'd be great in CO. They just are not great in all-day drizzle.

-jeff

The visual just doesn't do it....

-1 on the visual!!!




George

That's was good.

stumpy

Once you learn how,it is easy to flip up the covers as you shoulder your rifle.It takes no extra time at all to do this.

True fact! It's part of the raising of the rifle, for me.

-jeff

I've broken off 4 or so of the red push things this year alone. I have them on all my rifles.

Ah...but there is no need to have to learn to flip them open while raising the rifle when you have the see thru ones. One less thing to worry about. Also every situation is different and I don't buy the fact that one can do it every single time and in every situation that may arise. Each animal and situation is completely different.

But ugh, the optical quality of the see-through is horrendous! MIne are anyway, all dirty and scratched up... seems like it's always low-light when I'm shootin' deer and those flip-ups pretty much HAVE to get flipped up...

The Loopy covers, see through or not (not), are far superior. And way, way more money, too.

-jeff

You're right about that, it's not like looking thru glass. I don't like to have to shoot with them closed but at least it's possible if you must. It's a just in a pinch type thing. If they are solid color then for sure you can't shoot unless you pop them open and in the heat of the moment when you jump an animal there's just no time.

The flipping of the covers and chambering a round is almost a conditioned response that takes very little time.

To each their own I say.

Yep, and I don't even hunt with a round in the chamber, bet that would snap ya..........

Don't worry about rain much here. Maybe snow, but usually dust!

Nah, you've just never been in the same situations as me . If it hasn't happened yet it will lead to a missed opportunity one day.