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What scopes from right now will be the classics, the K4 of our era?
What will our futuristic George Jetson hunter be sporting for optics on his rifle? For binocs?
Where will optics be built?
Can scopes get significantly better, or just cheaper?
What say you? (hi, Steelhead!)
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Jeff, You bored or just can't go to sleep
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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Naw, just got back from playing tennis with a bud and his family, then venison tacos and nerf football at his place...
I suck ass at tennis, but it's still fun, and the rest was pure gold!
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I imagine playing tennis with a nerf football is difficult.
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....scopes will still be hard to focus
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Naw, just got back from playing tennis with a bud and his family, then venison tacos and nerf football at his place...
I suck ass at tennis, but it's still fun, and the rest was pure gold! The only thing for certain, given we still exist in 30 years, is that you'll still be a flaming liberal piece of trash.
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If Jeff0bama's "messiah" Hussein has his way, we'll be lucky to be using atlatls.
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Ringman will likely be sporting something in a 100x.
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I doubt I will be here, or too old and feeble to care!
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Lol...
Ok, so what current scopes will be considered the classics of this era- the ones us old pharts (in 30 years) will be buying while telling the whippersnappers what nice scopes they were way back in 2011?
I'll go 3-9x40 Conquest (no surprise). There's one that will only get more respect as time goes by.
I think virtually all optics- Big 3 included- will be made in China in 30 years.
I expect there will be lots of scopes with rangefinders unobtrusively incorporated.
I expect the high zoom ratio trend to completely take over. Future Hunter Guy will be sporting a 1.5-15x42.
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Here's a vision of the future:
Scope ranges to where the reticle is aimed.... then superimposes a lit reticle subtension onto the reticle, representing the necessary holdover.
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I'll probably still be using my 6x42's and my 10x40 Zeiss Classics in 30 years. How hard is it to kill chit?
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If you still have any guns in 30 years(questionable),I agree the trend will be to more X's.....better glass and the optics will be built onto the rifles...not a seperate component. There will be no dots,clicks,etc;it'll be controlled electronically as to distance, trajectory, etc..... The entire shooting sequence will be transmitted to your wife on her I-Phone equivilent so she knows where you are and what you're doing.
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Hah! Good call Bob!
Optics incorporated into the rifle? Don't see that one. Though I will admit I was trying to imagine what scope MOUNTS might evolve towards.
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Here's a vision of the future...former Amerikans, now slaves, will be making scopes for the Chinese, who will be hunting former liberals for sport, with the new higher-tech optics.
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I bet Leupold will quit using diamonds to coat lenses, and will have switched to cubic zirconia.
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America will be back in the scope-building business, eh? Can't say I see that!
But I can see the Minox approach being incorporated by Swaro, Leica, and Zeiss. Glass sourced in Europe, scope built in China.
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Here's a vision of the future... hunting former liberals for sport. Sounds GREAT! Damn! I'll be too old to participate!
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