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Trinidad
Optics Master Joined: May/04/2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1555 |
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Posted: February/12/2007 at 13:30 |
Curious, are any of you so addicted to glass that you bring some to work with you to observe during your breaks and lunch on your spare time. Am I the only..........sick?
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Duce
Optics Master Joined: September/19/2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1231 |
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I am retired but I do find myself looking out my office window comparing scopes and on and on. The newer ones do much better in low light rain and so on.
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tahqua
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I am not nearly that bad. Is this caused by the S&B virus?
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Duce
Optics Master Joined: September/19/2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1231 |
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Could be the Nikon virus
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cheaptrick
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I take scopes with me to work. I work outside and sometimes in low light situations as well. I sit in my truck with only a scope in rings and "mill" our concrete finishers covertly........
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4T570
Optics Apprentice Joined: November/01/2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 53 |
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I thought I was the only one who sat is my office "glassing" the parking area. Thanks for making me feel normal. |
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Trinidad
Optics Master Joined: May/04/2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1555 |
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This quite possibly be one of the early symptoms.
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Trinidad
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[QUOTE=cheaptrick
I sit in my truck with only a scope in rings and "mill" our concrete finishers covertly........
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Roy Finn
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Does it count if your "office" had four wheels and a lightbar???? Edited by Roy Finn |
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Trinidad
Optics Master Joined: May/04/2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1555 |
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Thank all of you for starting to make me feel normal. Edited by SVD666 |
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koshkin
MODERATOR Dark Lord of Optics Joined: June/15/2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 13181 |
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I set up resolution charts and compare scope sand binoculars in the parking lot behind my work every once in a while. It is on the top of the hill, so I also have an opportunity to observe distant objects.
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1stscope
Optics GrassHopper Joined: January/14/2007 Status: Offline Points: 66 |
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Telescopes, binoculars, spotting scope, camera lenses, loupes, homemade telescope finders ...... naw, I don't have a 'glass problem'.
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Duce
Optics Master Joined: September/19/2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1231 |
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How many of you out there have "extra" scopes just in case one fails or whatever besides me? I try to convince my wife they are "loaner" scopes.
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koshkin
MODERATOR Dark Lord of Optics Joined: June/15/2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 13181 |
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My ratio of scopes to scopable rifles used to be roughly 3:1. Then I sold most of the scopes I did not use to finance some new toys. However, I still have six or seven different umounted scopes lying around that I am keeping primarily to use in a few comparisons, after which I will sell them.
All in all, I am trying to cull my scope collection to the point where I have exactly one unmounted scope. ILya |
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Dale Clifford
Optics Jedi Knight Joined: July/04/2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5087 |
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You guys are nuts!!! A gun with scope is certainly more useful, but a scope without a gun is just an expensive tube, and a gun without a scope probably has really good iron sites.
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koshkin
MODERATOR Dark Lord of Optics Joined: June/15/2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 13181 |
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I do not know if you are strictly speaking correct, Dale.
Some scopes I've had lying around make for supreme war clubs. I could probably bludgeon a deer to death with it. Smaller ones make good projectiles if your aim is good. ILya |
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Duce
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But Dale if you have an extra scope you have a reason to buy another gun, and it won`t be all that expensive because you already have a scope for it. The idea is alway keep an uneven number so you can keep buying the good stuff..like more scopes and guns
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Dale Clifford
Optics Jedi Knight Joined: July/04/2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5087 |
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Mmmm. I like that idea.
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Trinidad
Optics Master Joined: May/04/2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1555 |
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.......more toys.
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