HEAR ALSO WHAT SAM SAID . . .

Description:

“pray:
. . . that the circuitry is good, not a clue to warranty limits . . .”

It is great that TSA handled Guy’s warranty concern with such speed and generosity but there is another lesson in this story: don’t trust electronic gadgets too far, especially when your life depends on them.

Guy probably uses his Pulsar for shooting foxes but some dangerous-game hunters want illumination in their scopes or a red-dot sight on their double rifle because they can’t focus on the express V any more.

Though scopes generally have a black reticle to fall back on, hunters too reliant on the light might panic for a vital second when it fails. Red-dot/reflex sights generally have no fall-back at all.

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You have to forgive poor old Sam. He’s a Luddite. He hates auto 4WDs because you can’t push-start them when the battery is flat*. He thinks manual window winders should be mandatory on the driver’s door, in case you finish up in a river.

He hates button-start, too. Though thieves find the cars easy to nick, Sam reckons they can be hell to get going when your own 'key' battery fails. He sees other problems with them, too, and wonders what problem they were invented to fix in the first place.

'LIGHT AT THE START OF THE TUNNEL - Are rifle scopes off the rails?' has a chapter on illumination, too, as the title suggests.

The price of $20 plus $5 postage includes 24 pages of additional information to be sent by email; other options with additions printed: $30-$45 posted.

*His mates had that happen up the bush but carried a jump-starter – trouble is its battery was flat as well.

The tear-out h/w is from P85 of ‘Australian Shooter’ Nov 2025 (for review). The deer head is a reminder of our SSAA "Upon the Feast of St Hubert . . ." ad, from which the prayer quote is taken. The cover graphic shows a digital representation of the drawn reticle (with all the trimmings, $45 posted).