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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! NitroXAdministrator   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! NitroXAdministrator   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! NitroXAdministrator   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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