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<blockquote data-quote="yobuck" data-source="post: 1538234" data-attributes="member: 12443"><p>Well you just nailed it down with your last post, it is the same Jim. I also know the guy and his wife you mentioned, they happen to be neibors at our camp. </p><p> Actually he owned the gun, but he no longer goes either. I think you would find the story you cited didnt involve them at all, and was an entirely different group. I know them, but only in passing, not well at all. But there is a lot more to that story that seems to get left out, depending who's version you hear. The real version is it was something like 2900 yds and they couldn't kill the elk at that distance. They had only crippled it to the point it couldn't get up and move off. It got late, so they went over the next day and finished it. </p><p>To their credit, they stated to a very close friend that is was in fact just much too far for that gun. And by the way the shooter happens to be one of the very best shooters at the Williamsport club to this day. So its not a situation of an unqualified shooter. It's simply a fact that all these things have a limit, especially on live targets.</p><p>The 10x80 flak glasses you mentioned if in good clean condition are the absolute finest glasses one could ever look thru.</p><p>One problem with them for PA long range hunting, 10 power, which is no doubt why Darryl sold them to you. Their much larger cousins, the 20x120s suffer from the same issue, which has led us to where we are today. </p><p>Jim did make very good shooting benches.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yobuck, post: 1538234, member: 12443"] Well you just nailed it down with your last post, it is the same Jim. I also know the guy and his wife you mentioned, they happen to be neibors at our camp. Actually he owned the gun, but he no longer goes either. I think you would find the story you cited didnt involve them at all, and was an entirely different group. I know them, but only in passing, not well at all. But there is a lot more to that story that seems to get left out, depending who's version you hear. The real version is it was something like 2900 yds and they couldn't kill the elk at that distance. They had only crippled it to the point it couldn't get up and move off. It got late, so they went over the next day and finished it. To their credit, they stated to a very close friend that is was in fact just much too far for that gun. And by the way the shooter happens to be one of the very best shooters at the Williamsport club to this day. So its not a situation of an unqualified shooter. It's simply a fact that all these things have a limit, especially on live targets. The 10x80 flak glasses you mentioned if in good clean condition are the absolute finest glasses one could ever look thru. One problem with them for PA long range hunting, 10 power, which is no doubt why Darryl sold them to you. Their much larger cousins, the 20x120s suffer from the same issue, which has led us to where we are today. Jim did make very good shooting benches. [/QUOTE]
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