[This message has been edited by Edmac (edited 07-12-2001).]

Your text must look very goofy...that price was �795 or I guess around $1200 in your terms! I have no idea if they are imported to the US as they are a very low key product here in the UK...They are an old and established firm and apparently they provide the scopes for the German Olympic team. I'm hoping some of our mainland European friends
will b able to provide more info. In the UK, this segment of the market is dominated by Zeiss, Swarovski, and S&B.

Ed

The roe season has been off to a slow start for me. I have had one weekend away since April and taken one buck! We are away again tomorrow and will be quite busy over the rut though. All in all the F&M has really put a dampener on my season with my other bit of ground being effectively closed until just recently. How's your season?

S&B seem to have a good reputation as a DGR scope in the UK and Europe. I have an 8x56mm S&B on my fox rifle and I'm very pleased with it. The only reason I mentioned the H&R was the extra long eye relief...lack of eye relief on the high end Euro scopes seems to be a major complaint by our American friends.

Pete

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Want to do a swap? I have 500acres worth of 20-150 acre woods (most 60acres)in Oxfordshire/Berkshire which I have yet to get lost in!

We seem to be getting a lot more Roe coming North of the Thames now, especialy over the last year.

PeteE

I have a 1.5-6x42 Swarovski on my 9.3 and allthough it's touched my eyebrow on a couple of occasions the damped eyepiece means it's nothing. I saw the advert too, That scope (if the figures are true) has an extra 2" of relief over mine, you'll be able to mount it lower and I seem to remember it's steel - sounds very good to me. The only trouble might be if you ever want to sit up under a moon for something.

1894. I was OK at map reading in the Army but that was long time ago, I obviously have the sense of direction of a lemming now and could probably get just as lost in 50 acres as 500 !!
Ed

Ed,
You jammy bugger; I'd sell my soul for some
stalking in Hampshire!:-)Mind you if I had a
block like that I'd probably end up in the divorce courts!!

470 Mbogo,

I don't know him real well, but I was on a course run by Ivan 4 or 5 years back...As I recall he used to build rifles as well. It's a small world :-)

Pete

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[This message has been edited by Norbert (edited 08-04-2001).]

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Originally posted by 470 Mbogo:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Edmac:
Hi Peter E and Edmac,
Do either of you know of my friend Ivan Hardwick that did stalking in the Swindon area. He was very busy in developing courses and data for the proffesional stalkers. My hunting partner Chris and I went culling with him on our way back from Africa and saw many Fallow,Roe and Munjac deer. He used a 30-06 improved with 125 grain ballistic tips at 3450 fps. His scope was a Smid and Bender 4 to 12 and was very good. The DGR scope you mentioned at 795 pounds sterling works out to about $1828.00 Canadian. Ivan is now living here in Sechelt about four blocks from my place and loves it. 470 Mbogo

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Hi 470. I know Ivan. I was one of his culling team in 97/98. We shot a lot of fallow that winter. I had just come out of the Army and was at Agricultural College at the time. I think he went off to Canada with my extremely smart two piece stag horn shooting stick!!! Tell him Richard says hello and can I have my stick back.