Friday Cocktail

[LWeber]

the scope i showed is worth $2300 usa

Go to Ebay - find a used 3x9x50 Bausch & Lomb Elite 3000 - made in Japan for $300

[blackpowder]

Be very cautious of Chinese counterfeits. I've seen counterfeit Leupolds. If it's under $1000 you will regret it eventually.

[LWeber]

Be very cautious of Chinese counterfeits. I've seen counterfeit Leupolds. If it's under $1000 you will regret it eventually.

But that BLR isn't going to drive tacks at 500 yards with a 300, 500, 1, 2 or $3000 scope on it...
They're a beautiful gun but Quiqley it aint...

[blackpowder]

No, 1 moa would be lucky.
My point simply is clarity, and light gathering. Leupold VX3s are $800.
I have $800 Bushnells and you can tell.

[TSIPP]

Scopes are for wusses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4

I was just thinking that the white death didn’t use a scope, my Finnish Heritage runs deep, my younger years I did very well without a scope but now with reading glasses or without it’s pretty tough to line up both sights and the target, a good scope works wonders for the far sighted.

[shtferbrains]

Leaver guns are great heirlooms.

Used to see old Winchesters standing in the corner in every bachelor's shack.

Nice pac gun.

Not what you take on a trophy hunt.

Perfect just the way it is.

[Braveheart]

But that BLR isn't going to drive tacks at 500 yards with a 300, 500, 1, 2 or $3000 scope on it...
They're a beautiful gun but Quiqley it aint...

I wouldn't mind Quigley's gun, but I really wish I had his eyes.

[blackpowder]

I wouldn't mind Quigley's gun, but I really wish I had his eyes.

I've got a modern made Sharps in 45-110.
Haven't been able to use peep sites in years 😔 Gonna have to put an MVA scope on it someday.

[makar]

Leaver guns are great heirlooms.

Used to see old Winchesters standing in the corner in every bachelor's shack.

Nice pac gun.

Not what you take on a trophy hunt.

Perfect just the way it is.

A cousin cleaning his mothers estate said here, take my 2 rifles i bought and dads win 94. Looked at it gave him $1000 in 100 dollar bills, sold his 2 for 1100 and now a proud owner of a 1936 win 94 carbine in .32 special. The gun is nothing great but its mine and has history, stuff you never sell.

[makar]

I was just thinking that the white death didn’t use a scope, my Finnish Heritage runs deep, my younger years I did very well without a scope but now with reading glasses or without it’s pretty tough to line up both sights and the target, a good scope works wonders for the far sighted.

Probably heard me tell this before, i knew a polish guy who lived in ww 2. Anyway when the russians where pushing back he was teasing a russian about the rifle on his back, you think you are good with that? Rabbits there are size of dogs, without a word the russian unslingled his mosin took aim and dropped a rabbit at quite a distance. My old friend finished his story in broken english, i shut up . I can still shoot open sights, how much longer lord only knows.

[makar]

Probably heard me tell this before, i knew a polish guy who lived in ww 2. Anyway when the russians where pushing back he was teasing a russian about the rifle on his back, you think you are good with that? Rabbits there are size of dogs, without a word the russian unslingled his mosin took aim and dropped a rabbit at quite a distance. My old friend finished his story in broken english, i shut up . I can still shoot open sights, how much longer lord only knows.

2 of 36 million odds i own that rifle.