Rifle Scopes Grip improvement for the Super Sniper

[boudin]

I mentioned this a while back, but it's buried somewhere in the 55 pages of the 5-20x SS group buy thread. Since I just made some new bands for my 5-20x SS and haven't seen anyone else bring this up, I decided to take a couple of pictures and make a thread on the matter.

As much as I love both of my SS scopes, about the only gripe I have is with the profile of the power ring (on both the 3-9x and the 5-20x) and the stiffness/sharp edges of the parallax knob on the 5-20x; making them both a little difficult to manipulate, especially when it's cold. So I came up with a quick, easy, and cheap solution to provide a little more grip, making it much easier to operate both a lot quicker.

All I did was cut strips of a mountain bike tire tube to the desired width and stacked 'em two high on each piece. Road-bike tubes would probably work even better since they'd be tighter, but MTB tubes are what I had on hand and they've worked great on the 3-9x so far.

Now, thanks to a little friction-induced mechanical advantage, I can roll the power ring with just my index finger and can easily roll the parallax knob through it's entire range with the twist of two fingers.

Hope it helps.

 

[DPRoberts]

Re: Grip improvement for the Super Sniper

Neat trick I'll definitely give this a shot. The stiffness and lack of grip for the parallax adjustment is my only gripe about this excellent scope.

Thanks for the tip.

 

[WhiskeyWebber]

Re: Grip improvement for the Super Sniper

That's just brilliant! I'll be down one innertube starting tomorrow.

 

[Platypus]

Re: Grip improvement for the Super Sniper


Excellent Idea and it reminds me of the first time a saw a package of "Ranger Bands" on the shelf at the PX. Yes all they were is cut cross sections of bicycle inner tubes. If you have a bike shop in the area they will usually give you as many old tubes as you can carry just watch out for the ones with the leak stop stuff in them. Plus they will have a good selection of different sizes for you to have. They are good to have a selection of them in your kit for fixing or holding items, everything from a field expedient flashlight holder on your rifle to bands to hold bandages in place. We even used longer sections of the large bike tubes off the objective of the scope to break up the round shape of the scope lens and it acts like a sunshade. Thank you for sharing your application.

 

[boudin]

Re: Grip improvement for the Super Sniper

Went by my local bike shop today and picked up a few punctured road bike tire tubes they had in the trash. If you can find a 7/8" tube, that's the ticket for the parallax knob.

Yeah Platypus, you can find all kinds of uses for the "Ranger Bands".