$20.00
'The doors to perception'
- Condition:
- Make:a book by Samuel B. Mann
- Model:'LIGHT AT THE START OF THE TUNNEL - Are rifle scopes off the rails?'
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| Seller Type: | Private User Licence # 431-725-90B |
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| Location: | ESSENDON NORTH, VIC, 3041 |
| Phone #: | *** click to reveal *** |
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Description:
It is now 60 years since The Doors joined the decade that shook off our shackles. Their deathless lyrics (about sex and death), carnival organ, bottleneck guitar and hypnotic rhythms offered us a trip to the other side.
"Who among you will run with the hunt?"
Things weren’t all rosy during the 1960s, though. Nuclear annihilation was a button-press away, the US had their Vietnam War (arguably started by Jimbo’s father*), assassinations and blood in the streets of Detroit and Wilmington, not to mention on the palm trees of Venice.
Things weren’t all that great in the recreational shooting world 60 years ago, either. Winchester went into push-feed actions and waffle-iron checkering and Leupold lost 15% of their 4x fields of view in finally surrendering to image-movement.
Winchester later saw the error of its ways but the scope world has never recovered.
Better than chasing the doubtful superiority of vinyl records, however, it’s still possible to find great riflescopes from before the decadence . . . and a book that opens the doors to scope perception:
'LIGHT AT THE START OF THE TUNNEL - Are rifle scopes off the rails?' traces the descent of modern riflescopes from their golden age after WWII to the dubious 'advances' of today.
The $20 price, plus $4.30 postage, NOW includes 24 pages of additional information to be sent by email; other options with the additions printed: $30-$45.
* “ . . . then-Captain George Stephen Morrison was the commander of US Naval forces [in] the Gulf of Tonkin Incident that gave the Johnson Administration the justification they needed to enter the Vietnam War.”
- 'Business Insider' 15 March 2016
