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. (Just last week his cruise control stopped working. Though it doesn’t really matter, stuff like that feeds his paranoia.)

'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).