Re: KillFlash / SunGuard ARDs
MAX100,
Thank you for the appropriate welcome and the belated caution, you're very right and I suppose when I have 9,400 posts logged in my 'data book' I can sun my cheeks too.
Just was curious to hear shooting perceptions of someone who already ran a SunGuard since they are about 1/5th the cost of a KillFlash for the same objective and I have several rifles to outfit. Operationally I use G.I. issue mosquito net (OD green), but unlike an ARD it tends to snag in brush, so yeah, this ain't my first rodeo.
As for this particular (newly acquired) $4k plus rifle (among several other recent purchases) that is only a .308, I was very content to settle for the time being with 'good' glass, because it got the rifle out of the safe and onto the range. It is the first scope I have owned with an internal ACD, and have not noticed a difference in accurate cant indication between it and an external unit.
Yes, strangedays it is a Springfield Armory GenII Mildot 6-20x56 with illuminated reticle. I am WELL aware it is not top of the line glass, but I got a great deal on it used from a reliable shooter, and I figured its good enough for a National Match M1 Grand, its good enough for any other .308, because after the operator, cartridge ballistics is the No 2 handicap of any good system. You put your money where it makes sense for your budget, and right now my priorities don't dictate a Hubble on a 1000m stick. I also knew the larger objective would make up some for the difference in lens quality and collect more light. It is what it is. See, the way I was trained, and the way I NOW INSTRUCT, the best system in the world is worthless in hands of an unskilled shooter but even moderate equipment can be devastating in the hands of a true operator.
Obviously, I lent too much credit to some of the patrons here given the site name, thinking it was a meeting place for shooters not gucci gear snobs. My Govt salary doesn't allow me to bolt $2400 glass on EVERY rifle I have, but I guarantee you don't want to be the guy on the other end of ANY scope I'm laying behind.
Ultimately, I feel my decorated past and continued Service to this Country warrants a little more mutual respect than to be prejudgmentally attacked and insulted by a 'used machinery broker' over a difference in opinion that servicemen and women provide for him to so obnoxiously share. Maybe next I can have "Super 'Bag'man" fly from Texas and tell me which groceries to buy- in trade he can bring his rifle and my Wife will show him what it can really do. I kinda feel bad for the guy, what with having to calculate two dopes for every shot, one for the rifle angle and the other for his nose being in the air.
As an aside, my .338 Lapua has NF icing, but I must have missed the rule that you have to divulge the entire contents your safe and your operational resume to strangers in a chat room to ask for a simple kit reference. Now I may be over stepping my bounds here as a relative new guy to the site with little activity but-Moral of the story; Know who the Hell you're talking to and if you can't answer a legitimate question without being a prick-go to the next topic.
And finally, what I gathered is: the SunGuard is a great product that doesn't reduce collected light-Thanks!
Comndo
