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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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Duce Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February/12/2007 at 15:02

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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote tahqua Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February/12/2007 at 15:12
I am not nearly that bad. Is this caused by the S&B virus?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Duce Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February/12/2007 at 15:27

Could be the Nikon virus

 

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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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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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Originally posted by tahqua tahqua wrote:

I am not nearly that bad. Is this caused by the S&B virus?

 

This quite possibly be one of the early symptoms.

 

 

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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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Does it count if your "office" had four wheels and a lightbar????



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Originally posted by 4T570 4T570 wrote:

I thought I was the only one who sat is my office "glassing" the parking area.  Thanks for making me feel normal.

 

Thank all of you for starting to make me feel normal.



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote koshkin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February/12/2007 at 16:46
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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote 1stscope Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February/12/2007 at 22:13
Telescopes, binoculars, spotting scope, camera lenses, loupes, homemade telescope finders ...... naw, I don't have a 'glass problem'.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Duce Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February/13/2007 at 08:50

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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote koshkin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February/13/2007 at 09:36
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.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dale Clifford Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February/13/2007 at 09:45
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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote koshkin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February/13/2007 at 10:01
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.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Duce Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February/13/2007 at 18:02

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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Mmmm. I like that idea.
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.......more toys.

 

 

       

 

 

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