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Homer
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Scopes for Spot-Lighting!
07/03/10 07:18 PM

G'Day Fella's,

I've just returned from a hunting/shooting trip to a mates property (Farm).

Yesterday evening, whilst sitting around in his shack sipping beer, I mentioned that I personally don't believe you need to have a 50 or 56mm objective lens on your Spotlighting Rifle!

Now for you fella's from other parts of the world, Spotlighting of Kangaroo's and other pest animals in Australia, is a completely Legal and very efficient way of managing the Massive Kangaroo population!

Many of my mates and I have rifles that almost only ever get used at night, for this spacific purpose.

Now for years heaps of professional shooters only ever used Kahles 8 x 56mm scopes for this purpose (they were De-rigor for this job) and if you didn't have one on your spotlighting rifle, you were looked upon as being an amateur or not really serious about the job!

As is usual with me, I'm not much into "Sheep Like" activities!!!
So as I have mentioned, I suggested that a good 40mm objective lens scope, would be just as good as the bigger 50 and 56mm lenses for spotlighting, as the spotlight provides a heap of bright light!

Well a couple of beers later we lined up a couple of current production Leupold's, a Vari-x3 3.5-10 x 40 and a Vari-x3 4.5-14 x 50 (both set on 10x) and my old Swarovski 10 x 42 fixed power, on the bonnet of my car. We had been shooting at a paper target, at 100meters earlier in the day, so we used it as our "Test Target"

The old Swarovski was a Unanimous Winner, in the eyes of all three judges!

Have any of you fella's had much experience with similar optical equipment?

HooRoo
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Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	Homer	07/03/10 07:18 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	Dr_Deer	08/03/10 07:19 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	kamilaroi	08/03/10 09:24 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	nothere	09/03/10 02:10 AM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	AkMike	09/03/10 12:18 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	500Nitro	09/03/10 12:21 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	gryphon	09/03/10 01:12 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	500Nitro	09/03/10 01:27 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	AkMike	09/03/10 02:23 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	500Nitro	09/03/10 02:26 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	nothere	09/03/10 03:39 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	kamilaroi	09/03/10 04:48 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	500Nitro	09/03/10 05:30 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	kamilaroi	11/03/10 08:29 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	nothere	11/03/10 08:47 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	nothere	09/03/10 05:20 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	AkMike	09/03/10 05:33 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	nothere	09/03/10 05:52 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	gryphon	09/03/10 09:21 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	Homer	09/03/10 09:42 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	500Nitro	09/03/10 06:36 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	AkMike	09/03/10 06:40 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	NitroX	10/03/10 05:39 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	500Nitro	09/03/10 06:55 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	AkMike	09/03/10 07:01 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	tophet1	09/03/10 09:07 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	nothere	09/03/10 09:28 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	AkMike	10/03/10 03:28 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	nothere	10/03/10 09:18 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	AkMike	11/03/10 12:07 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	nothere	11/03/10 06:12 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	gryphon	12/03/10 06:46 AM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	NitroX	21/07/10 08:56 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	AkMike	11/03/10 08:22 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	nothere	11/03/10 08:43 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	AkMike	11/03/10 08:45 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	nothere	11/03/10 08:48 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	kamilaroi	11/03/10 10:20 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	nothere	11/03/10 11:53 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	gryphon	11/03/10 04:50 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	Paul	11/03/10 05:19 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	AkMike	10/03/10 04:02 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	NitroX	10/03/10 05:39 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	AkMike	10/03/10 06:00 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	500Nitro	10/03/10 04:19 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	AkMike	10/03/10 04:52 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	nothere	09/03/10 09:37 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	4seventy	09/03/10 07:11 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	AkMike	09/03/10 08:52 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	500Nitro	09/03/10 05:43 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	tophet1	07/03/10 07:31 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	Homer	07/03/10 08:25 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	kamilaroi	07/03/10 10:03 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	Paul	10/03/10 07:21 PM
Re: Scopes for Spot-Lighting!	nothere	08/03/10 04:47 AM

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