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Anyone tried Rain X or similar?

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15 November 2007, 10:22
Gatehouse
Anyone tried Rain X or similar?
The other day, we were out in just miserable weather. Wet, sleeting snow, still hunting through pines, in tough , steep terrain and getting soaked in the process.

When I went to (maybe) shoot at a buck (which I later passed up) my Vari X III 2.5-8x36 was horribly fogged and blurred.

My partner passes me his 243 wiht a Bushnell ELite 4200 scope on it, and just like all the times I have used Rainguard coated products- it's nice and clear.

I'd prefer not to replace my Leupolds with Bushnells, so if someone has coated a scope wiht one of those windshield solutions, let me know.

I had Stoney Point scope covers installed, but they *do* leak in wet, snowy conditions, it's happened to me a few times. How well do those Leupold screw in scope covers work?


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15 November 2007, 10:35
Gatehouse
Just dug up an old thread on AR -according to it, Parkers Perfect and Kleer Vu make good products...


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15 November 2007, 19:17
seafire2
Some guy came as a guest of one of the others in our group at our hunters camp in Northern Wisconsin one year....

We had similar weather out there opening weekend.. this guy had a Leupold 3 x 9 on his rifle....

He took a candle and rubbed it on both ends of his scope on the glass... I let him do the same to my old Tasco I was hunting with at the time...

It not only didn't effect optic quality, but it also prevented the scopes from fogging and also shed the rain.... said it was a tip he picked up from his wife from around the house....

I've done it some here in Oregon, where wet weather is sort of a fact of life... cheap solution that darn well works....

Then once agan, good old rain X from Wally World works...the thin coat of candle wax comes off easily is why I prefer it...


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15 November 2007, 20:31
jackfish
Scope Dope, Cat Crap or Parker's Perfect. Get something that says it is specifically for fine optics like scopes and binoculars. Rain-X has chemicals that will deteriorate the coatings of fine optics, I wouldn't recommend it.


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16 November 2007, 00:07
DMB
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Originally posted by jackfish:
Scope Dope, Cat Crap or Parker's Perfect. Get something that says it is specifically for fine optics like scopes and binoculars. Rain-X has chemicals that will deteriorate the coatings of fine optics, I wouldn't recommend it.


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