Maintenance & First Aid for Hunting Optics
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Show Notes
SHOW NOTES
• The backcountry is hard on optics
• All brands and types of optic can and occasionally will fail
• User-induced failures
• Properly mounting riflescopes for ultimate toughness
• How scopes get knocked off, and how to re-zero them
• Protecting lenses against grit, grime, water, and ice
• Sideways impacts to scopes, and related weaknesses
• When you fall on your scope
• Something you need in the backcountry: Enough ammo to re-zero a scope
• Iron sights can save a hunt
• Fogged lenses, and how to avoid them
• Snow clogs and snap shots
• Scope covers, and how to pick one
• When binoculars go south
• Cleaning lenses without causing damage
• BONUS MATERIAL: Ammunition corrosion and reliability issues