Dirty, dirty lenses

[jon lynn]

alsy none of you alls have been in the feild with muid on your lens.

Yeah in fact I have! I was climbing in to a nice hi-seat and my sling came unbuckled, and I was relived to find my rifle fell in to some bushes and grass to cusion the blow, but the weight of the rifle (it was a CZ combo rifle/12ga) sunk the scope in to a puddle of water that was under the vegitation.

Before screaming profane words (just to teach my German host some new and interesting english words), I was relived that it only seemed to be mudded on the occular bell.

The entire bell was covered in muddy slime. I always carry some water on me (dehydration is an ugly thing) so I just was hopeful that the waterproof claim was true. I simply poured water over the slime to rince, and then pointed my barrel up and actually fanned the scope with my hat until dry, seemed fine.

A bout twenty minutes later I got caught in a down poor, and for the safety of the group of beaters they called the hunt. So my German friends did learn a few words of english after all.

But the water seemed to work, and the next day I ordered sets of flip up covers for all my scopes. But please keep in mind that 13 years ago Butler-Creek plip ups were almost unheard of here...................Jon