Gun Owning Smokers

**CptnBlues63** · 01-27-2016, 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by Mangyrat

I have no problem with cheap scope,s.
My eyes are not what they used to be so i tend to go with the cheap ones with thicker cross hairs.

Prior to purchasing the Swarovski about 3 years back, all my scopes were in the $100 range. In fact, I've gotten quite a few deer, elk and one bull moose, with a $100 scope.

I blame my brother for me buy the expensive scope. His sniper rifle (he's a cop and on the tactical squad and has a real nice custom sniper rifle) has a $2500 Nightforce scope on it. After looking through some high-end glass, looking through a $100 scope is kind of disappointing. If you've never used a high-end scope, you never know. But once I did, I couldn't help wanting one.

Like you, my eyes are getting worse with age. 15 or so years back, my eyes were 20/20 Now I wear glasses all day long. My distance vision is still pretty good but everything up close is fuzzy. As more time goes by, I notice my distance vision gets worse too and last year, for the first time ever, I wore my glasses all the time out hunting. Used to be I didn't have to bother. But in 2014 I noticed my eyes were getting sore and I was working harder to focus at distance so last fall I wore them all the time. I will eventually have to get a different pair of glasses for shooting because the lenses in the ones I have are so tiny I can't hold my rifle and aim as I normally do, and look through them. I end up looking over the lens........lol Fortunately, that's not a problem yet. My Swarovski has an excellent optical focus and also it has an objective focus too. But being able to look through my lenses while aiming, especially if I'm going to be looking through the scope for any length of time, would be helpful.

**Mangyrat** · 01-27-2016, 10:55 AM

I have used a few nice scope's and they are clearer especially at the higher magnifications. Kind of like comparing a KIA to a Porsche.

Most if not all my shooting is now at 100 yards or less, if it was not for bifocals i would be using iron sights.
Wait till you need bifocals,

i use higher scope rings now so i can see in the scope with glasses on.

**CptnBlues63** · 02-02-2016, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by Mangyrat

I have used a few nice scope's and they are clearer especially at the higher magnifications. Kind of like comparing a KIA to a Porsche.

Most if not all my shooting is now at 100 yards or less, if it was not for bifocals i would be using iron sights.
Wait till you need bifocals,

i use higher scope rings now so i can see in the scope with glasses on.

"Wait till I need bifocals" What is this "Wait" you speak of??

I got bifocals about 10 years back. I've been wearing progressive lenses for about 4 or 5 years now. They're actually part of the problem with the whole wearing glasses while shooting thing. I have reasonable benefits at work and a 'health spending account' that I used to buy some prescription sun glasses last spring. They're a much larger lens than my regular glasses so I tried them out at the range. I still tend to look over the top of the lens. It's just how I aim I guess.

I'm more of a distance shooter. We have a lot of open country where I grew up and even where I'm living now. That's even though I'm in the 'northern boreal forest' region. My average shot while hunting is in excess of 200 yards and my longest to date is 495 yards (with the Swarovski which has a ballistic turret). That's one of the biggest reasons I site my rifles in to be "dead on" at 250 yards.

I did have one rifle with the raised scope rings but truth be told, I got rid of them within two years of buying that rifle. Again, they made me change how I aim and that's not a good thing for consistency. They're a great idea if you're hunting heavy bush....but with my knees (just had surgery on the left one for the second time on Jan 27/16) my days of hiking the bush while hunting are over. I mostly cruise fields where I know I'll find game and do a lot of sitting and waiting. What we call "posting".

**Mangyrat** · 02-20-2016, 01:53 PM

I got tired of guns laying all over the place due to my gun cabinet so full and picked up a cheap stack on 16 gun safe. "the non fire proof one so i can move it my self".
It will be bolted in the double closet sideways in the left side resesed area so you have to enter the closet to open it.
Great idea now i have to gut the closet it will go in

This gun stuff is never ending now i am thinking i need a stack on cabinet for ammo to go on the other side.

**Eville** · 02-21-2016, 01:18 PM

I feel your pain. I'm more or less out of room in my 20 (I think) gun safe I also have the majority of my ammo in it as well though. Not sure If I'm going to upgrade it when I get back, or just move y ammo somewhere else. Probably the latter. I also just realized I have no idea what the combo is, or where I wrote it down at.

**CptnBlues63** · 02-22-2016, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by Eville

I feel your pain. I'm more or less out of room in my 20 (I think) gun safe I also have the majority of my ammo in it as well though. Not sure If I'm going to upgrade it when I get back, or just move y ammo somewhere else. Probably the latter. I also just realized I have no idea what the combo is, or where I wrote it down at.

LOL

I bought a 3 pack of trigger locks and put one key on my key ring and stashed the rest. A few months later, I can't find the rest of the keys so just to be safe, I had two made. About a year back, some 3 years after the aforementioned brain fart, I find the rest of the keys locked in my gun cabinet buried under some boxes of .22's

I hope you find, or remember your combo before you do anything drastic!

As for the ammo, I bought a separate storage container a while back that I really like. It might be just the kind of thing you need:

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B001...ilpage_o08_s01

**Mangyrat** · 02-23-2016, 10:48 AM

Gun safe is in the closet finally.

But i pulled mussel or something doing it my self, tried to move the safe inside while it was strapped down to a 6 foot long pallet that weighed a extra 50 lbs or so.
I am getting to old to move stuff like this by my self.

Now that it is in i think i will do a stackon cabinet on the other side of the closet for ammo, i haven't bolted it down yet but maybe this weekend if i have time it will get it bolted to the wall.
All of my AR's are too short for the rests so i used 50 cal cans to prop them up. safe is 20x20x50 and will hold maybe 14 long guns with scopes mounted crammed in it.

I need a few moor hand guns and to complete the last AR build.