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Re: Scope covers?
« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2011, 04:29:43 PM »
NW Scope Shield!

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Re: Scope covers?
« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2011, 07:25:10 PM »
Butler Creek flip up's all the way. How are you guys braking them?
Can't we all just get along?

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Re: Scope covers?
« Reply #17 on: September 15, 2011, 07:46:51 PM »
All the online review I've read, that is the biggest complaint... :dunno:

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Re: Scope covers?
« Reply #18 on: September 16, 2011, 05:44:40 PM »
went white tail hunting last year in colville was about 10:30 so we got in the truck to go back to camp and pop, i hear my scope cover break  :bash: ok not that big of a deal and 5 minutes later i hear DEER when we were driving down a logging road so i jump out and load my gun my freind goes its a spike so i throw my gun up and i cant see anything it was fogged  :bash:  :bash:  :bash:   :bash: bye bye mr deer only clear ones for me now

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Re: Scope covers?
« Reply #19 on: October 06, 2011, 11:03:06 AM »
Anyone remember the old Butler creek covers with the rubber band between the covers? Those worked very good. Why did they stop making these? The story I was told that someone has an eye injury and it was lawsuit time.

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Re: Scope covers?
« Reply #20 on: October 06, 2011, 04:01:44 PM »
Weren't they Uncle Mike's?  I have several sets.

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Re: Scope covers?
« Reply #21 on: October 06, 2011, 08:21:19 PM »
That's them. Simple and quiet

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Re: Scope covers?
« Reply #22 on: October 06, 2011, 09:19:23 PM »
Anyone remember the old Butler creek covers with the rubber band between the covers? Those worked very good. Why did they stop making these? The story I was told that someone has an eye injury and it was lawsuit time.
I have a set of those on my back-up gun I take with.  Wished they still made them.  :(

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Re: Scope covers?
« Reply #23 on: October 06, 2011, 09:24:58 PM »
A little different than they used to be.  Looks like "cups" instead of caps.
http://www.butlercreek.com/products/scopes_bikini.html

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Re: Scope covers?
« Reply #24 on: October 09, 2011, 09:14:18 AM »
I break the butler creek flip ups all the time.  Right now I just have the broken remains of the ones I bought last year.  The alumina looks interesting.
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Re: Scope covers?
« Reply #25 on: October 09, 2011, 09:45:30 AM »
 I have never broken a Butler Creek cover and have had them on several of my rifles for years, what are you guys doing that gets them broken? I would think you would be having scope issues as well, I find it hard to believe they are breaking just by flipping them open or closed. :dunno:
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Re: Scope covers?
« Reply #26 on: October 09, 2011, 09:52:17 AM »
I have never broken a Butler Creek cover and have had them on several of my rifles for years, what are you guys doing that gets them broken? I would think you would be having scope issues as well, I find it hard to believe they are breaking just by flipping them open or closed. :dunno:

 :yeah:

Mine have been on my rifle for about twenty years.

They also make a clear flip up front sight so that if you don't have time to flip it up you still can see through it.  They used to anyways....

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Re: Scope covers?
« Reply #27 on: October 10, 2011, 04:19:54 PM »
I have never broken a Butler Creek cover and have had them on several of my rifles for years, what are you guys doing that gets them broken? I would think you would be having scope issues as well, I find it hard to believe they are breaking just by flipping them open or closed. :dunno:

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Mine have been on my rifle for about twenty years.

They also make a clear flip up front sight so that if you don't have time to flip it up you still can see through it.  They used to anyways....

When you put hundreds of foot miles on every year, 12 months a year, they break quite regularly.  Hanging up on brush, constantly being opened closed, rubbing on or in your pack.

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Re: Scope covers?
« Reply #28 on: October 10, 2011, 04:55:22 PM »
When you put hundreds of foot miles on every year, 12 months a year, they break quite regularly.  Hanging up on brush, constantly being opened closed, rubbing on or in your pack.

 Thanks for clearing that up, i'm not likely to have that problem since all I do is road hunt from my vehicle then.
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Re: Scope covers?
« Reply #29 on: October 10, 2011, 05:05:22 PM »
Someone asked about the Uncle Mike's - see the below information on Michael's of Oregon

Michaels of Oregon is renown world leader within the hunting, shooting and law enforcement product categories with its wide range of top hunting and law enforcement brands - Uncle Mike's, Uncle Mike's Law Enforcement, Hoppe's, Stoney Point, Butler Creek, Gun Mate, Blackwater Gear. Michael's of Oregon is now a part of awesome family of Bushnell Outdoor Products.


 


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