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This sort of scope is way out of my league in application but I find the philosophy behind it most interesting.

I have long doubted the optical and mechanical integrity of using an articulated erector tube to give the now-conventional constantly centred reticle and understand that Unertl and B&L rued the advent of any internal adjustments. In explaining this new scope, March certainly reminds us of the optical failings of the 60-year-old image-movement concept.


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Sambarman, you really have it out for erector tubes.  While it is an interesting argument, the simple fact that there are plenty of well made and reliable scopes on the market with articulated erector assemblies, sorta counters your point.  

I have a fair amount of mileage with non-centered reticles and I am decidedly not a fan.  It is all fine and dandy when the mounting system is nice and straight, but if you end up with a reticle way off from the center of the field of view, it really hampers with the speed of acquisition of the aiming point.  Once we start looking at more sophisticated grid type reticle, I definitely do not want it tucked away in the corner of the FOV.

Durability argument is, I think, pure nonsense at this point.

With external adjustments like with the March scopes that this thread is about or with Elcan scopes that I like quite a bit, it is a more interesting argument.

I grew in a country that basically turned to a sea of mud about four months of every year (and is frozen stiff for another four moths or so), so I originally viewed any adjustments exposed to the elements with great suspicion.  I have to admit though, that despite some serious efforts, the external adjustments on my Elcan Specter OS never skipped a beat.

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Thanks Ilya,
yes, there do seem to be some well-made image-movement scopes these days (Nightforce and Nikon spring to mind) but the victory comes from incremental patching of a concept that is basically fragile.

My defence of the old reticle-movement scopes assumes the user gets them installed properly, by a gunsmith if he can't manage it himself. The use of windage mounts and the odd shim to get the reticle so close to centre you won't notice any asymmetry is not rocket science but does save the need for a mini-me bouncing around inside your scope at every shot. While I've heard of receiver screw-holes and barrels out of alignment, I wonder if that worry is overplayed. With the  scopes I've installed on Anschutz, Sako and Tikka rifles, I've been amazed how well things did line up above their dovetailed receivers. Even the crappy Tikka mounts with no lateral adjustments put the scopes straight in line with the bore sight and only a few mm higher than was needed.

As to durability, image-movement is fine on rabbit rifles, but my concern is mainly to do with those used for big game. A US contact has rattled the guts out of many modern scopes on 458 Lotts etc, often within 100 rounds of installation. America's favorite brand got so sick of him sending scopes back they cobbled up a special one, just for him, which is still going after 1500 shots on the Lott and .505.  He says its reticle is constantly centred but, since the power is only 2x and he always puts scopes on straight anyway, I think he is mistaken. Why? Because he told me the makers said the reticle was in the first focal plane and therefore would not let him down.

If anything, adding that minuscule weight to the front of the erector tube instead of the rear could add extra leverage under recoil. FFP can add reliability in variables but this is a fixed-power scope. The only way I can see an FFP reticle helping durability is if the erector set has been fixed solidly in the outer tube, as they all were before 1956, after which the only movable mass within the scope is the reticle ring held against the turret screws. Whatever springs modern makers use to hold up their erector tubes, they could not be stronger than the one I found supporting the reticle in an old Nickel scope - and it only needed to locate one-tenth of the mass.

The company who supplied that special 2x scope made models with no internal adjustments into the early '60s and did not succumb to image-movement until 1964. My bet is they found some old bits that fitted a modern tube and made it with them.

I must look into those March and Elcan mounts you mention.


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Just so that I understand this better: you are looking to take scope technology back by 50 years or so in order to accomodate all of two dozen people out there who regularly shoot 458Lott and bigger calibers out there.  Or am I missing something?

Apparently, everything smaller than an elephant gun is now a rabbit rifle.  Isn't that a little condescending?

I am assuming the company you are referring to as "America's favourite brand" is Leupold.  I am not sure why you are avoiding calling them by name.  They are no longer the largest brand in the sporting optics world, but are still in the top three.

Their 2.5x and 3x scopes have a good reputation for holding up on heavy recoiling rifles, but this is sorta outside my expertise.  It is such a small segment of the market that it is statistically insignificant.  Perhaps, there are scopes out there specifically aimed at the boomers, but I am not sure it is a large enough niche for anyone to focus on it.

A few year ago, Bushnell marketed a 1.25-8x32 Elite 6500 with six inches of eye relief.  I always assumed it is for use on kickers, but I never tested that hypothesis.  I do have one of those.

There is really nothing particularly complicated in making a scope with internals beefed up enough to survive use on heavy recoiling guns.  You pay a penalty in price and weight, but that is largely it.   There is no need to go to a non-centered reticle to achieve that.   On top of that, this is a market niche that is quite literally dying out since it mostly consists of older hunters who grew on elephant hunting stories.  If I were a rifle scope manufacturer, I would ignore it too.

All the R&D money right now is going into high erector ratios, advanced illumination schemes and ever increasing digital integration.

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Well, ILya, I wonder why you're so defensive if the market is as cut and dried as you say. The reason I did not specify the favorite brand was because I did not wish to single it out for criticism. As I've said, they just got caught up in the simplistic marketing BS of the 1950s and '60s, as did the Germans and Austrians eventually, though the Continentals at least let the patents run out first.

So, for my edification, which are the largest brands in the sporting-optics world?

Much as you assert there is no problem with image-movement scopes for smaller-calibre hunting rifles, the forums seem filled with complaints about them failing to hold zero. The flip-side to this is the number of people so impressed with makers' generous warranties. One man I recall found a nice lurk buying old scopes from pawn shops and, if anything internal was wrong with them, send them back to the maker to be replaced with new ones.

To my mind this is just the most convenient way to cope with a design that is intrinsically dodgy. Casual users won't shoot enough to have it affect them and an increased percentage of spare scopes takes care of those that do. Then, instead of people getting angry, they get a warm fuzzy from the great service.

The real problem comes when you're on that hunt of a lifetime. And despite your waving it aside as irrelevant, cheap air travel has led to more and more hunters aspiring to African safaris. The dangerous game may less often be elephants but few clients hunt buffalo with a much-smaller rifle. Many such hunters use scopes on their heavy and medium rifles - and there's the rub.

If your scope goes off in the middle of Tanzania, is that warranty going to help you in time?

That all the research is going into illumination and 'digital integration' does not do it for me. This stuff might be good and fine for pest destruction but if recreational hunting is to continue to have any element of sport, we owe it to our quarry to maintain standards of fair chase. Electronics in hunting would be a clear place to draw a line in the sand.

The most sporting aspect of illumination is probably the chance that it might break down on you once you've become totally addicted to it - just when the beast of your dreams appears. I could fill a chapter with this discussion but hopefully you've got the idea.
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Originally posted by koshkin koshkin wrote:


With external adjustments like with the March scopes that this thread is about or with Elcan scopes that I like quite a bit, it is a more interesting argument.

I grew in a country that basically turned to a sea of mud about four months of every year (and is frozen stiff for another four moths or so), so I originally viewed any adjustments exposed to the elements with great suspicion.  I have to admit though, that despite some serious efforts, the external adjustments on my Elcan Specter OS never skipped a beat.

ILya

I've had a look at the Elcan scopes and find their outlook interesting, too. While March is most concerned with loss of optical integrity when constantly centred reticles (and the fields of view) are wound to extreme distances from the vertex, Elcan appears most concerned with weatherproofing.

I agree with both concerns but must admit Koshkin has a point in saying that external adjustments may be more susceptible to freezing conditions than adjustments protected at least by a turret cap. Perhaps the old European reticle-movement practice of putting the lateral adjustments in the mounts but the elevation in the scope is the best compromise. With luck, further adjustment to windage can be avoided in the field and elevation can be left to stadia, at least in extremely cold conditions. If not, at least the reticle spring in such a scope would be less likely to break because it is only required to flex in or out. When double turrets are used, any adjustment brings some twisting tension on the spring because it is not diametrically opposite either screw.

My main concern with the Elcan is shared with many other tactical scopes. Being fat, they sit quite high yet have the shortest mount separation in modern practice. A decent bump from the front or back will have twice the effect on zero of that on a short conventional scope with mounts that are four inches apart.
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Well, ILya, I wonder why you're so defensive if the market is as cut and dried as you say. The reason I did not specify the favorite brand was because I did not wish to single it out for criticism. As I've said, they just got caught up in the simplistic marketing BS of the 1950s and '60s, as did the Germans and Austrians eventually, though the Continentals at least let the patents run out first.

So, for my edification, which are the largest brands in the sporting-optics world?

Much as you assert there is no problem with image-movement scopes for smaller-calibre hunting rifles, the forums seem filled with complaints about them failing to hold zero. The flip-side to this is the number of people so impressed with makers' generous warranties. One man I recall found a nice lurk buying old scopes from pawn shops and, if anything internal was wrong with them, send them back to the maker to be replaced with new ones.

To my mind this is just the most convenient way to cope with a design that is intrinsically dodgy. Casual users won't shoot enough to have it affect them and an increased percentage of spare scopes takes care of those that do. Then, instead of people getting angry, they get a warm fuzzy from the great service.

The real problem comes when you're on that hunt of a lifetime. And despite your waving it aside as irrelevant, cheap air travel has led to more and more hunters aspiring to African safaris. The dangerous game may less often be elephants but few clients hunt buffalo with a much-smaller rifle. Many such hunters use scopes on their heavy and medium rifles - and there's the rub.

If your scope goes off in the middle of Tanzania, is that warranty going to help you in time?

That all the research is going into illumination and 'digital integration' does not do it for me. This stuff might be good and fine for pest destruction but if recreational hunting is to continue to have any element of sport, we owe it to our quarry to maintain standards of fair chase. Electronics in hunting would be a clear place to draw a line in the sand.

The most sporting aspect of illumination is probably the chance that it might break down on you once you've become totally addicted to it - just when the beast of your dreams appears. I could fill a chapter with this discussion but hopefully you've got the idea.

If we do not single out companies for criticism, they have no motivation to get better.  Leupold has had a long history of week internals and they seem to be finally rectifying that.

Whether you like the direction of the current R&D or not is not really critical since it is driven by the market, i.e. customers.  Basically, what you are complaining about is such a miniscule niche that no manufacturer seems to care about it in the slightest.

Hunting in Africa is still mostly for the well-heeled and it is not going to change any time soon.  There are comparatively few parts of the shooting sports that are growing and African hunting is not it.

All that aside, I am not at all convinced your technical argument has merit.  You are comparing what were effectively hand-built and optically simple riflescopes of the 50x and 60s, with far more complicated, less expensive and mass produced products of today.

I need to see if there are official statistics on this, but my best guess is that the number of riflescopes sold last year is at least 2-3 magnitudes higher than that sold in 1960.  If you draw a comparison to typical wages, a good quality scope from 1960s cost about $2k or more in today's dollars.

If you get someone to build you a simple fixed power scope at $2k pricetag today, with minimal weight limitations, I suspect it will be absolutely bulletproof whether you make it with internal, external or any other adjustments.

In other words, in your nostalgic view of the riflescope world, you are missing on basic statistics of mass production and not comparing apples to apples.

The product that would be a real comparable to the hand built Zeiss from 1960 simply does not exist today, largely because there is no market for it.

The closest in the grand scheme of things is probably one of the fixed power March target scopes that are effectively hand built.  I have not used them much, but I know they have put them onto 50cal rifles backwards and forwards for many shots with no ill effect. 

The only really fancy fixed power scope around 4x in the $2k range I can think of is Nightforce's 4.5x24 Competition  I have no idea if anyone has tried it on a boomer. 

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I hear tell, IOR is coming out with a 5-50 10x erector mil/mil any one else caught wind of that?
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Originally posted by Steelbenz Steelbenz wrote:

I hear tell, IOR is coming out with a 5-50 10x erector mil/mil any one else caught wind of that?

Is it IOR or Valdada?

Valdada's Recon G2 is a LOW scope.  A version of the same basic 4.5-30x56 design that several people use.

LOW also makes a 5-50x56 SFP scope.  It was first used by Delta, but now Trijicon is using it as well.  I ahve the Delta version and it is quite good.

It would not surprise me if Val is going to market a version of that scope as well.

If it is an IOR, though, that would mean made in Romania and that I have not heard about.

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Roger that, I will hit my buddy up for clarification.
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Originally posted by koshkin koshkin wrote:


If we do not single out companies for criticism, they have no motivation to get better.  Leupold has had a long history of week internals and they seem to be finally rectifying that.

Whether you like the direction of the current R&D or not is not really critical since it is driven by the market, i.e. customers.  Basically, what you are complaining about is such a miniscule niche that no manufacturer seems to care about it in the slightest.

Hunting in Africa is still mostly for the well-heeled and it is not going to change any time soon.  There are comparatively few parts of the shooting sports that are growing and African hunting is not it.

All that aside, I am not at all convinced your technical argument has merit.  You are comparing what were effectively hand-built and optically simple riflescopes of the 50x and 60s, with far more complicated, less expensive and mass produced products of today.

I need to see if there are official statistics on this, but my best guess is that the number of riflescopes sold last year is at least 2-3 magnitudes higher than that sold in 1960.  If you draw a comparison to typical wages, a good quality scope from 1960s cost about $2k or more in today's dollars.

If you get someone to build you a simple fixed power scope at $2k pricetag today, with minimal weight limitations, I suspect it will be absolutely bulletproof whether you make it with internal, external or any other adjustments.

In other words, in your nostalgic view of the riflescope world, you are missing on basic statistics of mass production and not comparing apples to apples.

The product that would be a real comparable to the hand built Zeiss from 1960 simply does not exist today, largely because there is no market for it.

The closest in the grand scheme of things is probably one of the fixed power March target scopes that are effectively hand built.  I have not used them much, but I know they have put them onto 50cal rifles backwards and forwards for many shots with no ill effect. 

The only really fancy fixed power scope around 4x in the $2k range I can think of is Nightforce's 4.5x24 Competition  I have no idea if anyone has tried it on a boomer. 

ILya 

OK, ILya, it was Leupold but I know that many hunters think they are righteous dudes. My pilgrimage is to persuade the market that some parts of it should care about stuff like this.

I am certainly not well-heeled but have hunted in Africa and know a number of other average earners who have as well. The anti-hunters' pressure on African governments is not helping this trend, though, and canned hunting was a mistaken approach that has had a cost.

You are probably right in asserting that modern scopes are more mass-produced - most things are these days. Image-movement lends itself to mass production, too, because the erector set, complete with reticle, can be inserted more easily from the ocular end than was positioning the bits in the old system. (Was? It may be that Valdada still makes tactical scopes with reticle-movement, for reliability.) 

That said, we had cheap scopes in the '60s, of both types, but those who knew saved up and bought the better brands. The first centrefire I ordered (as a student) was a .270 Husqvarna 4000, which was to cost $140 in 1968. The scope I hoped to put on it was to be a Pecar 3-7x36, cost $130 IIRC. (No rifle could be found, so that didn't happen.) Later, when even poorer, I bought the same model scope s/h for $67 to put on a $50 FN Mauser .30-06.  On the way I'd passed up a new Nickel Marburg at  $50 after discovering it was a small-bell 6x, rather than the 4x I was looking for. In 1980/81 I paid $400 for a new .338 Sako and put a $300 Kahles Helia Super 27 on it. I bought other, cheaper scopes but most finished up in the bin; the Pecar and Kahles reticle-movement scopes just kept going and I still have the Kahles in working condition. 

Old gunwriters used to tell us to worry more about the quality of the scope than the rifle, and I'm not sure they were wrong. If you look at the cost of modern Sako rifles and pay three-quarters of that price for a scope, that is no small sum - and yet many scopes today cost much more.

The market is largely driven by what is available and what the makers tell us we should want. Reviews in shooting magazines with ads for the same products adjacent are dead give aways there'll be little critical content; and an evening of commercial TV tempts me to ask the Linnean Society to rename our species Homo notsosapiens.

You talk of $2k scopes today being absolutely bulletproof but I know that even the Swarovski z6 scopes, chosen by many hunters going to Africa, sometimes break down. (I am well aware that Swaro knows the danger of recoil to scopes. They claim this is the reason for their use of four helical springs behind the erector tube, though I suspect removing the chatter/distortion of flat springs is their real intent.)

No market for reticle-movement scopes? Well, I collect them and the initially expensive railed models are affordable because finding mounts can be a pain. I suspect there is also a market for good, old scopes to put on rifles, though, otherwise the clean-barrel ones that sell for a premium would be a lot cheaper. 









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I wrote a long, long post, deleted it, and will bulletpoint a few highlights:

1.  I don't choose my drill bit based on the price of my drill, I choose based on the task the bit needs to do well.

2.  I always wanted a '69 Camaro, but never because it is superior to modern vehicles.

3. That Leupold is known for frequent breakages is accurate, that all modern scopes are known for breakages is not.  You keep naming Leupold, indicating you understand they are, at the very least, an outlier in the field.

4.  There have been times in my life where the gun had to work or my life - or, more importantly, the life of someone important to me - would be lost.  And in those moments, never ever did I reach for a 50 year old scope in fear that a Nightforce couldn't do the job exceptionally well.

5.  Newer isn't always better, with that I wholly concur (M14 battle rifle vs M16A1 is a great example); but I see no one - other than you - arguing that scopes today are not, by huge margins, better than they were back when people were still getting polio. Maybe I am just looking in the wrong place.

6.  The plural of "anecdote" is not "data."  If you are certain of the superiority of a design, at least as durability goes, please provide the data on which that certainty rests.
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Well, Rancid Coolaid, your apposite appellation and work history make me reluctant to open my mouth further, but here goes.

Your point about drill bits I suppose refers to my mention of old rifle and scope prices in respect to ILya's assertion that old, reticle-movement scopes were prohibitively expensive and would be hard to make competitively today. Economic conditions have certainly eroded prices at the lower end of the market but my comparisons show cost relationships in the respected brands have not changed that much. Maybe, if we're into analogy, its like oak verses Ikea furniture. The latter might furnish your first flat but I know which I'd rather have. 

I am persuaded by you and other skilled riflemen that Nightforce, at least, has succeeded in making scopes you are willing to rely on. How they have done it, other than by employing super-tumbled springs and something akin to Posi-Lock, I'm not sure. I know their erector tubes are as big and brassy-looking as anyone elses.

However, I do know that multiple makers have struggled to make image-movement reliable over six decades. Redfield's vacillating over spring types and their efforts to improve the hinge mechanism (before gimbals took over); their tribulations with SFP reticles moving zero between magnifications; Weaver's carbide balls to reduce wear on the erector-tube bearing points; Swarovski, Nightforce and Leupold's use of special new springs to solve  inadequately explained problems (probably to do with difficult arc engagements at adjustment extremes); Vortex's efforts to cut wear on the erector tube/turret-screw engagements by adding hardened-steel pads and tube band (adding to inertia mass and possibly predicating an even fatter outer tube), are a few I can think of at 12.15am.

I am not a statistician, but do recall Mark Twain's words about lies and statistics. My contention is simple and it comes down to a simple physics understanding that the more stuff that rocks around inside a scope under recoil, the greater chance it will eventually cause trouble.

As I have said many times, image-movement is dodgy in its basic concept, which requires for the pathetic purpose of making scope mounting idiot-proof, the mass of moving parts subject to recoil inertia to be increased roughly tenfold, at least if the preferred brass alloys are used. If you have 'data' to contradict that, please let me know.

  
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 I am not an engineer, but I hear it said if one had to explain the flight of a honey bee, he/she would say the bee could not fly. Likewise, you are free to regale me with tales of sorrow and woe concerning a thing presented as so fraught with flaw as to be basically unusable - or not for long.

And I've heard the Twain quote a few times, used it a few more; but understand that it is meant to explain manipulation of data, not to justify the absence thereof.  As for data that contradicts the basic premise of your hatred for erector tubes (the basic concept is "dodgy", the end result is a fragile and unnecessarily complex problem), it is in every tactical event winner's circle, in the field with every precision rifle in every developed country's military the world over, and is represented quite nicely in my gun safe.

I've mounted hundreds of scopes, I've fired countless rounds, spun countless turrets (some spun completely off the scope, but that was Leupold), and have run a few scopes to catastrophic failure; but I have not - with about 30 years on precision rifles and optics - seen a better solution emerge.  (Digital imaging is making a strong case, but that is another thread entirely.)

It may be entirely true that scopes are over-engineered to deal with a problem one way that you claim could be solved another, I don't know; but I do know that present scopes are quite common that handle recoil well, I know this for certain, I've used them, I own them.

As for the drill and bit part: buying a scope based on how much you spent on the rifle seems like a less-than-stellar way to go.  A tool is, in my experience, chosen for its effectiveness at a task, not for what anything involved costs.  I have rifles that fit nicely into your paradigm, and several that do not - it is all about the task. A great is example is Tikka rifles.  I love Tikka rifles, and can think of only one (of several) Tikkas in the safe that fits your profile.  My favorite precision rifle is a T3 action chambered in 243AI, it is an absolute laser, and wears a scope that cost 3X the rifle, because the scope is what allows me to reliably pop 2" steel gongs at 400 yards at my local range, which I do find enjoyable.

No one here will argue your likes or your experiences, but many will push back when you claim a thing we all know fairly well doesn't work.  That a scope fails doesn't lend credibility to some other design, those variables are independent.  If you claim one technology is superior to another, I will ask for quantitative measures rather than qualitative, especially when it is on a topic for which I have much, MUCH quantitative data.  

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Lifetime warranty and excellent customer service don't mean a thing when your gun fails during a zombie attack.

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“A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.” – Fred Bear
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 It was random conjecture, good to know it was verifiably accurate.

But, again, it should not be extrapolated.
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I used to watch street outlaws all the time, so I had seen it happen.  LOL
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That was an excellent post RC.  Outstanding actually.  Poor ol' Sambar has tried on 3 forums now to try  and find someone  who will agree with him, and has officially struck out.   Formidilosis over on the other big board, a rifle/optics/bullet tester for the US DOD who sees hundreds  of thousands of rounds....PER YEAR, has told him he's clueless as well. 
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I don't doubt the absolute domination of target shooting by image-movement, Rancid, since the shooters really don't have much choice now, unless they sacrifice modern advances in magnifications, lens quality and coatings, buy the March bag or, as I've seen reported elsewhere, disable the erector-tube movements in their scopes. 

And yes, the bench-rest groups are getting smaller, so small I wonder if the sport will disappear up its own verinculum once all the bullets go in one hole, slightly smaller than the bullet diameter. But there may be other factors involved, such as better barrels, bedding and bullets, and increasing precision in reloading.

Your returning to scope cost has me a little baffled. My comments were in regard to a previous post and my purpose was to say that though some things cost more, if you believe in what they represent, you'll save up and pay the money. 

I too have a Tikka and, as with its big brother the 38-year-old Sako, am amazed how good it is. Furthermore, I believe that had American rifles of the 1950s had their barrels and scope-mount provisions as well aligned, Kollmorgen/Redfield and Weaver might have found much less interest in their constantly centred reticles.

I'm a bit disapointed you haven't trotted out some data on the weight of erector tubes verses the little rings used to hold reticles in the old system. I was bracing for a come-uppance, proof positive that size does not matter and mass can never be a factor in recoil inertia.

The analogy with cars is interesting but could take all day. Suffice to say the surge here in SUVs without dual ranges or even AWD, in a country with no snow in most areas - like the attraction of image-movement Ouch - makes little sense to me.

Et tu, JG? Since you know everything, could you tell them what it's all about? I could do with some advertising and understand there's no such thing as bad publicity.




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