$20.00
Is a great warranty always enough?
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- 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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Description:
Erector-tube problems are the bane of modern riflescopes. Some brands are better than others but having a mini-me scope suspended inside makes almost all models made today vulnerable.
As Mr Morsby says*, the service from the maker and its Australian agent was impressive - and we can all gain some comfort from his report.
But is that great service always enough?
If your scope breaks down in the middle of an important competition, your day may be done.
If the scope on the big rifle you've taken to Africa packs up, it may cost you a fine trophy and huge trophy fee - or even your life.
As John Barsness says in the second excerpt**, recoil will destroy any scope (though he failed to recognise that older technologies were by design much tougher).
Carrying a spare scope is a good idea but the moment you know you need it could be too late to even quick-detach the old one.
Looking now at an old magazine, I see that another well-known modern scope maker had already used this angle to advertise its products and, yes, it does have a good reputation for reliability. However, it also uses a long, articulated erector tube, five or 10 times the mass of a traditional erector cell. This is an important matter when it comes to damage from recoil inertia.
'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 POA. Despite increased postal charges and heavier packages, these prices are not being lifted.
NB: the reticle shown h/w is a digital representation of a cover with an added black-reticle. The rubber stamp is applied with great care but is never as extensive or black as shown here. Copies with stamps (or the blacker, drawn reticles) and the extra pages printed and inserted, with eight stuck in, are still available as special orders up to $45 post paid.
*In a letter published in 'Australian Shooter', Dec 2022.
**From 'Optics for the Hunter' Safari Press 1999, as underlined and sent to Sam Mann by an American reader.
Both pieces are shown here "for review".
