A change in the way scopes are made....

[Critch]

I was reading the latest issue of American Rifleman and they talk about the old Leupold scopes that did not have turrets on them, they had a series of concentric rings to adjust the scope. That got me to thinking about an incident that happened to me.

I was walking to my deerstand in the dark, moving pretty fast, and i hit my scope on a big granite bouilder as i went around it. When the sun came up, I realized that I had a scope that was not going to work, the turret was bent to the side at a fairly sharp angle and the crosshairs were busted. it made me sick, it was a nice scope.

I have noticed that most tactical scopes have really tall turrets, is this not asking for trouble? It seems to me that a design similar to the old scopes might make more sense, especially for riflemen moving through steets and the woods in the dark.


The CCW crowd is always talking about "melting" guns to keep down on snags, does the rifle crowd may to take a look at this too?

I'm also sort orf scope dumb, I'm not sure of the engineering requirments, ie, what can be done with what we have as far as technology goes. But a crosshair that is positioned by say an allen wrench instead of knobs may have it's usefulness.