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#102333 - 02/04/12 08:37 AM

Re: Scope covers [Re: racksmasher]

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I use bikini covers but only when cleaning the gun to keep solvent off the glass. I take them off when I leave the truck.

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#102349 - 02/04/12 04:30 PM

Re: Scope covers [Re: whywait]

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I use several types, the flip open style with my cheat sheets taped to them, and mounted so they flip open to opposing sides and I can still see over the scope. Depending on weather,rain, snow, fog whatever I have a couple sets of the clear see thru type. I have also made some bikini style out of inner tube, with a long tab on the close end, when ready to shoot just pull the tab back and let'er fly, pops right off. I made these so if they get lost no big deal.

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#102352 - 02/04/12 04:50 PM

Re: Scope covers [Re: punkinslinger]

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flip open style with my cheat sheets taped to them

Great idea. Mind if I steal it?

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#102358 - 02/04/12 07:21 PM

Re: Scope covers [Re: s4s4u]

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Help yourself, I think I may have copied it from someone also.

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#102363 - 02/04/12 07:53 PM

Re: Scope covers [Re: punkinslinger]

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Originally Posted By: punkinslinger

I have also made some bikini style out of inner tube, with a long tab on the close end, when ready to shoot just pull the tab back and let'er fly, pops right off. I made these so if they get lost no big deal.

How are you sealing the ends of the innertube ?

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#102365 - 02/04/12 08:12 PM

Re: Scope covers [Re: archr610]

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Not sealing them, find the right size tube and cut a cross section out of it, then stretch it over scope from end to end. Tire shops usually just toss old tubes, but they are getting harder to find, everything is tubeless these days. I've also used the stretchy elastic bands that you get from physical therapy and just tied a knot in it.

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#102366 - 02/04/12 08:31 PM

Re: Scope covers [Re: punkinslinger]

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Originally Posted By: punkinslinger

OH DUH, caught me in a senior moment. I'm thinking bicycle tire tube. LOL. Now I can visualize what you've done. good idea

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#102393 - 02/05/12 12:14 AM

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It snowed and/or sleeted almost everyday of my mule deer hunt this past October. I semi-packed kleenex on the back of the J-Point while my gun was in the holster and just quickly picked it out when it was time to shoot. I've done this with scopes too.

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#102418 - 02/05/12 06:37 AM

Re: Scope covers [Re: Pasco]

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Butler Creek on my XP's. Don't really use much on guns that I still hunt with. On ugly days I have taken a set of rifle scope covers. The ones that are the plastic caps with one clear and one yellow lense held together with elastic cords. Often you can pull the cords through the hole in one cap then reknot it to make the cord shorter. The caps are always larger in diameter than the pistol scope lenses but I just stick'em on and go, they keep out the rain and goo, quick to take off and still can shoot with them on if I had to. If I loose them, no big deal...have a drawer full of more.

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#102423 - 02/05/12 08:19 AM

Re: Scope covers [Re: Dan B.]

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Just checked mine and they too are Butler Creek, with the solid covers. Never used the one's with the see through covers.
I like them for their ease of deployment. A little noisy when they "pop" open but thats controllable. They're usually only closed when moving through the thick stuff or of course bad weather. They've been on the same scope for many years and have never failed me.

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