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It's easy to see for the Players but some of the Fans get sucked in.

You might honestly be the biggest douche bag on earth.

Congratulations?

been on quite a few forums and rokslide is #1 for product bashing to promote another

I’ll take it belly-deep.

From either end

I talked to the gentleman in question a couple of years ago. He seemed like a perfectly personable guy, but his results do not jive with mine. I also have the advantage of knowing the return statistics of several manufacturers. What he says about scopes sounds plausible, but does not jive with with what I have seen and what I know about the statistics of this. It also does not jive with the experience of a couple of fairly large armories I interact with for my dayjob.

I have not read everything he wrote over the years, but enough to think a lot of it is at least embellished (hunting stories) or out right silly nonsense (some of the scope tests). He does a good job of making them sound scientific, but it is really too uncontrolled of an experiment to make conclusions out of. I've been involved in designing equipment for durability testing of this stuff and I can tell you right off hand that the way he does it I can make any scope fail or any scope pass. It is as simple as that.

Beyond that, he clearly has a beef with Vortex. I do not know the origin of it, but he has never managed to find a Vortex scope that works. Not once. That's one hell of a lucky streak. He also has never managed to find a Nightforce scope that wasn't flawless, indestructible, etc. Is he a Nightforce shill? Perhaps, but he also likes older LOW designs like the SWFA SS HD and Bushnell LRHS/LRTS. I know with good amount of certainty that he does not have any personal relationship with the folks at SWFA. In other words, I have no idea where his bias comes from, but I know he hates Vortex with a passion.

He either does or did work for the military. Sometimes, he talks about it all the time and other times he goes all secret squirrel about it. I did not bother to check whether that is true or not, but he does like to sound mysterious.

He goes from forum to forum and bashes companies he does not like in more or less the same way. I know that on at least a couple of forums he got paid to stick around, presumably because he spins a nice sounding story and attracts an audience. Since it is always some form of the same nonsense, I sorta stopped paying attention to him a couple of years ago.

The earth is pretty big. There’s at least a 50/50 chance that somewhere there’s a bigger douchebag than Burns.

Yeah, but someone IS the biggest. And I haven’t run into anyone who comes close to Burns so far.

Until I meet him, Burns has the title.

been on quite a few forums and rokslide is #1 for product bashing to promote another

What was your previous name here?

this is my only handle here or there, why...what is your assumption?

Yeah, but someone IS the biggest. And I haven’t run into anyone who comes close to Burns so far.

Until I meet him, Burns has the title.

I have a lot of respect for Burns’ and Rick’s experience. I’m not a fan of all the sh*t talking and name calling. I tune most of that out. At the end of the day I look for information that I feel has value.

I still remember Formidilosus' elk hunt.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/8328789/1

About 10-15 yards above the sheer drop off, the rocks gave way and I flipped on my back tossing the rifle, knowing that I was about to go off and hoping that if I went feet first I would just break my legs... It was around a 60 foot drop and I watched rifle flip end over end until it dropped over the ledge. I was on my back sliding fast trying to grab anything to stop. The first two bushes just tore away doing nothing to slow me down. I was able to snatch the last small tree right above the drop off and it held. When it stopped me my right foot was dangling over the edge. I was still only holding on by my left hand and used my right to hit the quick releases on the pack. It broke away and shot off the cliff, taking what seemed like forever to hit.

Ok I gotta say it 2 guys here who were the most taken by forms “wisdom” here. Jordan smith. And god I gotta say it and I like you! jG raider. 😂😂

I still remember pointing out the 100k rounds and tikka factory barrels still on the guns. People flamed the living crap outta me and swore I was wrong.