Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Butler Creek Scope Covers have gone to hell in a bucket :(

I need to take you beaver hunting.









The four legged kind, ya gutter minded bastage.

Got that going on right now. Family farm I hunt is covered up in them. Kill one, and six will come to the funeral and decide to stay. Looking for some of Dupont's finest. May have to get Crossfire's gopher medicine recipe.

Four leg or two leg, they are both pretty tough.

Helped a guy out with his beaver problem.

Wrecked the dam by hand, then came back at dusk with a SxS.

Nibbled away at them but ultimately, he had to get a trapper.

Doing same and using a spot light. Hornet is skookum. I think that's probably where we are headed, but not until deer season is out. The owner got his old Cat dozer stuck trying to wreck one of the dams and is waiting on a hard freeze to get it out. Makes a pretty good shooting platform.

Update. Customer Service at Bushnell followed up with a phone call with someone a tad more informed. I was advised that they are aware of this issue with the scope covers and that they were currently working on revamping the construction to make an improvement so to correct the problem. It appears that enough were breaking under warranty that it got their attention. Not sure if and when a change will be made, but they will probably note the improvement with some sort of press release.

As to the tactical flex caps, they are a different line all together and are unrelated to any changes that may take place with the standard flip caps. I was given the current sizes, so I'll share them with you guys:

Eye 13-14 fits 1.570" to 1.605"
Eye 16-18 fits 1.660" to 1.700"
Obj 25-27 fits 1.800" to 1.840"
Obj 28-29 fits 1.890" to 1.919"
Obj 43-44 fits 2.310" to 2.360"

My replacements should be here within a week, but I've kinda lost faith in the product and they'll probably sit unused. Looked on the shelf and noticed I had an old "Ted Williams" labeled scope that I took off a Sears and Roebuck mauser, and it was wearing an old rubber Bikini cover that must be 25 years old. It has found a new home on my S&B until I can find something I like better.

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This is about the time that Boxer shows up to tell all of you guys you're a bunch of [bleep] because he uses BC covers in the harshest possible conditions and they've never failed him. Wait for it...

I used them for years and liked them, especially in the dusty conditions of S. TX.
Most of them have broken and not replaced. Luckily, an inner tube is one size fits all.

stumpy

scope coat, not quick but very effective

Just an update: Bushnell sent replacement covers well packaged in a box free of any charge. I am hesitant, however, at using these covers being they so easily break. They'll probably just sit on the shelf for now. Hopefully Bushnell will come out with the improved cover this spring and maybe they'll swap out my crappy covers for the better ones. Meantime, I've got the bikini cover over the lenses.

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It may sound silly, but the Alumina Flip-Ups are a big reason I continue to choose Leupold for my hunting rifles.

I mostly use LEU scopes and all but the old models have Alumina covers. I wish they'd work on my S&B, they are my favorites.

GaryVA: I also am not pleased with the Butler Creek scope covers.
But my concerns are based on their basic functions as opposed to them breaking.
I probably have 25 sets of them on various Rifle and pistol scopes.
My problem with them (and it has been evident since day one!) is that when I am carrying my Rifle over a shoulder the covers unlatch themselves and the rain or snow or dust gathers on my lenses until I notice the open covers and then must stop and clean and relatch them.
They are a wonderful idea (IMHO) but they all to often open themselves up and defeat their purpose.
I firmly believe the Karum-ba style covers (of which I still have many) offer more and more consistent protection from the various elements I am trying to protect my lenses from!
I have no solid suggestions for the Butler Creek folks from my experiences except to make the "latching" systems stronger of make the latching releases somehow protected from accidental opening.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

For many years I used Storm Queen scope covers and loved them. But, like many other "low tech" items that works well, they are no longer available.

Should have known better, but I used the Butler Creek covers Bushnell sent me to replace the broken set. The new ones lasted just over a day before the rear broke merely from fliping up. Just like the last set noted in this thread, shoddy construction, nothing solid, just about every spare spec of plastic shaved from the joint. I know Bushnell claims quality fell and they are working on improving construction, but I wish they'd stop stalling and just get production fixed. I've always liked those covers and it pains me to see Bushnell running them into the ground. Let's see if Customer Service has any updates.

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edit to add:

2A-OBJ and the 18-EYE

I never have liked BC covers anyway.
Just give me the bikinis or the Devcon Scope Coat style and I'm good.

Customer service has a replacement cover sent out in the mail, delivery expected 7 - 10 days. As before, the guy told me that Bushnell is well aware of the issue as they are currently replacing broken covers hand over fist. He could not offer any updates on an improvement other than they were working on making a production change to improve the product. Said they would probably make a press release when and if this took place. I've lost faith in the current product, it is fragile as an egg. I still have an old original set that still work like new after many, many years of hard use. I suspect that the old covers were made solid without any voids in the joint.

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Since all these flip-up scope covers leak anyway, it's a mystery to me why guys keep buying them. The bikini covers, or even a scrounged strip of inner tube, work vastly better. And much cheaper too....

inner tubes do not 'work vastly better'. they leak too and are slower to deploy.. i've used 'em for years before i started buyin' the BC caps. Alumina caps are the ultimate, BC for the masses, and i'll not use bikini/inner tube covers again.

i cant believe a US company hasnt made some good flip covers. sick of this China crap

When is the new tactical flip cap coming out, that is pictured above?