Thread: Restless Scopes

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings all,
I firmly believe that my rifles and scopes are capable of independent thought. They sit, tucked up in their safes, discussing which scope should go on which rifle. When they have reached a consensus the result is communicated to me via some sort of telepathy that I do not pretend to understand. Recently all the postings on .303 rifles has had my head in a spin about what I should be doing with the two that reside here. Both have scopes that are well down the pecking order in my scope collection. One .303 shoots pretty damned well based on testing with an ancient Lyman 2.5 power scope. The scope and rifle committee had communicated that more power was required which narrowed the choice to 3 scopes. A VX1 3-9 Leupold, a 10x40 fixed power Bushnell and a 3-12 Bushnell. The last 2 have turrets. In the end the 10 power won. The rifle shoots the 174 grain Hornady round nose very well indeed so a base zero for that will allow other projectiles to be tested and some comparisons made. More on this later. I hope that the scope and rifle committee approves of my choice.
Regards Grandpamac.

I have a similar problem in my gun safes
Some rifles have been breeding
So I need too start keeping members of the same species apart.
They do not seem too cross breed though
Although some have been very naughty and there are some random crosses with unknown barrels.

Ah the things that happen behind locked gun safe doors