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

You keep ignoring the fact that it takes NO EXTRA TIME to flip open the lens caps,if you open them as you shoulder the rifle.I will add that it is easier to quickly open the solid rear lens cover using your thumb on the red push button,than it is to open the rear see through lens that you must pull open with a finger.

Dude, you try being responsible when you're ass over teakettle....

When you are bugling and a bull elk suddenly appears at 20 yards staring right at you,your chances of cycling the bolt to chamber a round without having the noise or movement spook it are extremely low.

Guess bow hunters is [bleep].........grin

If the elk sees them first they are.Try drawing on a bull at 20 yards when he is looking straight at you.And cycling a bolt action makes much more noise that drawing a bow.

Do you have one in the chamber whilst walking to said bugling spot?

When I hunt with a call, I get into position, chamber a round, open scope covers, (if it's not raining) and prop my rifle up on my shooting sticks in the direction I think the buck will come from. If I'm hunting with somebody else, they set up facing a different direction. When we are all set up I call. If no bucks show up, I unchamber the round and sneak to my next calling spot.

Yes I do,since I bugle then walk as quiet as possible to another spot,then bugle,then another spot and so on.As such,I could spot at bull at any time.A bull that is searching out the source of the bugling is at full alert and any noise or excess movement could easily spook him.

What happens if he spots you whilst walking?


I guess elk is just to smart for me, I'll stick with dumb critters that allow me to chamber a round before shooting.

I'm also having trouble wrapping my mind around how chambering a round is more movement than walking.

Must be using a M70............

it's good entertainment for a day stuck inside..

Just made tater-tot casserole.

5 pounds of venison browned
1 onion
2 big cans of cream of mushroom soup
1 BIG bag of tater tots
shredded cheese

Mix all together in a BIG ass pan, cook for about 1 hour. Put cheese on top for the last 15 minutes.

We also skinned 2 deer today, yep a good day.

Nice recipe, finally something interesting in this thread

It's perfect GUY food, good for breakfast also...

Though it does give a man some serious gas, that might [bleep] up the chance at a bugling elk......

Yes a person will spook some game that sees you walking,but you will spook game by cycling a bolt as well.I posted movement and noise since both are important,but you seem to be ignoring the noise factor.The mechanical noises made by cycling a bolt are much more alarming to animals than walking as silently as possible.You can often hear animals walking in the forest,but you don't hear them making mechanical noises like a bolt being cycled.

I've never heard a woman say "I don't care about money" that don't mean it would frighten me, well maybe it would.....

I'm assuming the safety and flip up scope covers make no noise.

Nice! My mom made something similar but she put green beans in it also.

I'm dreaming of ways to spend money.. Days inside on the computer kill the pocketbook! I'm thinking of trying these for all my salmon/halibut fishing next year. I want one rod that does it all. With a high speed Shimano Trinidad reel with braid I think I can do it. I put 91 kings in my skiff last year on my days off from charter fishing and aim for 150 this year. King Salmon are what gets me going...

I'd have to hold one first.