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Scope field evaluations on rokslide
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<blockquote data-quote="Paladin300" data-source="post: 2977250" data-attributes="member: 115299"><p>It's not about the recoil of the rifle it is about the abuse the rifle takes during competition. My point was partially that those scopes are not practical for hunting applications. Only a handful of shooters are sponsored by companies most of them pay for there equipment. As a shooter you shoot what works for you. And you aren't going to shoot something you don't trust. These guys are winning week end and week out. As a former shooter I can tell you I am not changing my set up mid season unless it has a flaw. </p><p></p><p>I sold a guy a bow one time that was brand x the bow was identical to another bow made by brand y. He had read all the hype on brand y and was convinced it was better than brand x. They were literally the same bow. He complained and griped about that bow. He missed a half dozen deer with it. He didn't trust it! I traded him the bow for the one he wanted. He went out and killed two deer opening weekend. He was happy as a pig in slop. He would come to indoor shoots and shoot better than he ever had. Got so cocky he challenged me one day to a dot shoot to prove how much better brand x was than brand y. It didn't go well for him. I out shot him with his old bow by a long shot 30x. He had 10. To be fare at the time I was shooting about 5500 arrows a year and he was hunting deer. The week before I got my own butt handed to me by Jeff Hopkins. I think Jeff could beat you with a stick bow back then. I went on to kill five deer with the bow he sold. Shot one deer twice through the same hole. That bow might have been the quietest bow I have ever shot. He just didn't have confidence in it. It didn't work for him even though it was basically the same bow. Most of the parts, cams, limbs, and riser were built in the same factory. He needed the name recognition to give him confidence. </p><p></p><p>The take away from all of this is, at the end of the day if you don't have confidence in your equipment you want perform well. So shoot what you believe in however you come to that conclusion. Practice with it and learn it well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paladin300, post: 2977250, member: 115299"] It’s not about the recoil of the rifle it is about the abuse the rifle takes during competition. My point was partially that those scopes are not practical for hunting applications. Only a handful of shooters are sponsored by companies most of them pay for there equipment. As a shooter you shoot what works for you. And you aren’t going to shoot something you don’t trust. These guys are winning week end and week out. As a former shooter I can tell you I am not changing my set up mid season unless it has a flaw. I sold a guy a bow one time that was brand x the bow was identical to another bow made by brand y. He had read all the hype on brand y and was convinced it was better than brand x. They were literally the same bow. He complained and griped about that bow. He missed a half dozen deer with it. He didn’t trust it! I traded him the bow for the one he wanted. He went out and killed two deer opening weekend. He was happy as a pig in slop. He would come to indoor shoots and shoot better than he ever had. Got so cocky he challenged me one day to a dot shoot to prove how much better brand x was than brand y. It didn’t go well for him. I out shot him with his old bow by a long shot 30x. He had 10. To be fare at the time I was shooting about 5500 arrows a year and he was hunting deer. The week before I got my own butt handed to me by Jeff Hopkins. I think Jeff could beat you with a stick bow back then. I went on to kill five deer with the bow he sold. Shot one deer twice through the same hole. That bow might have been the quietest bow I have ever shot. He just didn’t have confidence in it. It didn’t work for him even though it was basically the same bow. Most of the parts, cams, limbs, and riser were built in the same factory. He needed the name recognition to give him confidence. The take away from all of this is, at the end of the day if you don’t have confidence in your equipment you want perform well. So shoot what you believe in however you come to that conclusion. Practice with it and learn it well. [/QUOTE]
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