Thread: Fake Leupold scopes

Originally Posted by kiwijames

I think I know who is bringing in a bunch of fakes ones round out area Andrew. Do you want one?

Any scope for me has to be dead nutz reliable, if a scope let me down it would get beaten with a rock and thrown in the river.

I couldnt bring myself to trust a fake with the hot/cold cycles our scopes go through these days.

Years ago at Kotemaori (1987) i was culling goats with a Hubertus scope on a stirling 22 in heavy rain, it fogged, i took it off, unscrewed the ocular lens to remove it, then shot a bullet through it, and another down the main tube to remove the glass and put it back on.

I carried on culling goats by centring them in the "sight picture"

We shot over 500 in two weekends on Alan and Rita Purvis farm then that scope was "retired"

Theirs was the last farm on the left before you cross the Mohaka heading north on the Wairoa rd,
Roger Dickie purchased the hills and planted it in pines and the flats are in Kiwifruit now


Ahhhhh the good old days hunting with me brother

I dont miss crap scopes though...........