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(19 April 2013, 12:20)Tartar Horde Wrote:

(19 April 2013, 11:22)BeardyMan Wrote: Nothing lasts forever, no matter how many spare parts you have for it.
That useless expensive club may very well come in handy - there's not much that can go wrong with a scope - as long as the glass isn't broken.
Open sights are usually just a reference point anyway, same with a scope if you're firing at a different range to what it's zero'd in at.

I have had three scopes that have broken the reticules BM due to recoil, trust me mate they do break, but you're right the lens tend to be tough. I am unable to make any parts for a rifle in a SHTF scenario, and to be honest don't know many people who could, they all rely on put by spare parts. The only weapon I myself can be truly self sufficient in is the Bow as I can make everything I need to shoot, the only other weapons I could honestly put my hand on my heart and say I could make would be the Atlatl and spear. I could make a catapult, or even a slingshot rifle but eventually the rubber would run out and there aren't many rubber trees in East Yorkshire. I may be taking an extreme outlook here but I don't like relying on something that relies on other people making parts for it.

Tarter Horde, you worry too much about things that MIGHT happen.

And you have had some very BAD scopes! I have a dozen scopes mounted on various weapons and have never had a scope that I paid more then $20 fail on me. The last time I saw a scope failure was back in the 1960s with a cheap small bore .22 scope.

Yes, guns break. Some break in a year or two, others continue for a century without a problem. I have an Enfield marked 1916 and I sincerely expect it to still be operating in 2116. I have a couple of Mausers that are almost a century old and still going strong, and two of my best pistols were made before WW2 broke out. I know they could break, but do not anticipate it happening or live in fear that it might.

If one of my firearms breaks down the road so be it, that is the time I build a bow or some other inferior tool, but I am not going to abandon the tool because it might break a year down the road.