Using Rifle Scopes To Glass With!

[huntingbaldguy]

Personally, i use binoculars to confirm animals.  A 9 power scope and 10 power binos.  If my binos can't confirm it, my scope can't either. 

[npaull]

Basically, i was taught that if you relax on gun safety, you're eventually going to have an accident.  I've seen that happen.  Luckily no one was injured or killed, but i've seen someone think, hey i cleared this gun last week, it's empty, but turns out he's been transporting a loaded gun "somehow" and fired off a round when he had no idea there was one in there.  I just don't relax on stuff like that.  If i saw that, i would unload the gun, put the gun up and wait for the range to clear like anyone else.  At the range, on a cold range/paper check, i lean rifles against he bench so the muzzle isn't pointing down range, even though there's RO's walking the concrete to make sure no one goes near guns.  I'm a safety nut, everyone should be.  I just don't make exceptions.  If you have binos, you can take a pic through them. 

Seriously, what happened to this?  I try to follow this to a T, every time I'm in the presence of a gun.

ANYONE who's "relaxed" around guns is someone *I* can't relax around.

Not only is a gun ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS loaded, it's also ALWAYS just about to go off. At least as far as humans are concerned.

I'll never forget one of the scariest things that's ever happened to me. Hiking in to a duck hunting spot before dawn a couple years ago, I was carrying my shotgun with the butt against my thigh, barrel pointed off away into the air. My dad was hiking about fifteen feet in front of me. Somehow, the brush we were going through managed BOTH to push my safety off and THEN to pull the trigger. The 10-gauge fired off totally without my control or intent, into the air. If it had been angled 15 degrees differently, it would have blown a hole right through my father's spine. Needless to say, I collapsed to the ground shaking with the adrenaline of terror.

It's ALWAYS loaded and it's ALWAYS about to go off. No other attitude is acceptable.

[huntingbaldguy]

Basically, i was taught that if you relax on gun safety, you're eventually going to have an accident.  I've seen that happen.  Luckily no one was injured or killed, but i've seen someone think, hey i cleared this gun last week, it's empty, but turns out he's been transporting a loaded gun "somehow" and fired off a round when he had no idea there was one in there.  I just don't relax on stuff like that.  If i saw that, i would unload the gun, put the gun up and wait for the range to clear like anyone else.  At the range, on a cold range/paper check, i lean rifles against he bench so the muzzle isn't pointing down range, even though there's RO's walking the concrete to make sure no one goes near guns.  I'm a safety nut, everyone should be.  I just don't make exceptions.  If you have binos, you can take a pic through them. 

Seriously, what happened to this?  I try to follow this to a T, every time I'm in the presence of a gun.

ANYONE who's "relaxed" around guns is someone *I* can't relax around.

Not only is a gun ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS loaded, it's also ALWAYS just about to go off. At least as far as humans are concerned.

I'll never forget one of the scariest things that's ever happened to me. Hiking in to a duck hunting spot before dawn a couple years ago, I was carrying my shotgun with the butt against my thigh, barrel pointed off away into the air. My dad was hiking about fifteen feet in front of me. Somehow, the brush we were going through managed BOTH to push my safety off and THEN to pull the trigger. The 10-gauge fired off totally without my control or intent, into the air. If it had been angled 15 degrees differently, it would have blown a hole right through my father's spine. Needless to say, I collapsed to the ground shaking with the adrenaline of terror.

It's ALWAYS loaded and it's ALWAYS about to go off. No other attitude is acceptable.

 

[phishisgroovin]

opening weekend, took my binoculars out of my exploder when i arrived back home,
Last friday i made my way back to camp to check on my brother in law i left up there last weekend (i had to work).

Wife wanted to look at something, stares at stars with them, i got all my clothing packed, rifes packed, forgetting i had removed my field glasses from the truck and took off.
Saturday morning, went a mile or so into area 329 (closed to deer hunting side of colockum) and sighted in my rifle (hoping to scare something juans way and into the legal side of colockum road).
got back to my truck and decided to go pitter putter around and glass some areas i always see deer a few miles away.
Reached for the binos and quickly realized my fat ass is heading back to camp to be lazy.