Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGcAqXMRios


(In case you're wondering, the optic runs ~$4500... But if you can easily afford a trip to the Isle of Mull for a guided red stag hunt, the cost of the scope is pocket change. )

OUCH that's spendy!

Thanks for sharing. I’d like to have a scope that costs as much as a good used car.

You're right about the scenery. Beautiful.

Jim

I’ve been to Mull, but didn’t see any of those critters. Prices for things like that will continue to fall, and it’s interesting to watch developments.
It was good to have a suppressor featured in the commercial. Such depictions probably won’t make any difference here, but we can hope.

I think in Europe suppressors are about as common as hearing aids and they're considered to be a polite accessory in keeping the noise down

its the US that seems to have a hair across its ass for something that can help people from going deaf

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
I think in Europe suppressors are about as common as hearing aids and they're considered to be a polite accessory in keeping the noise down

its the US that seems to have a hair across its ass for something that can help people from going deaf

In many locations they are compulsory, not just a 'good idea'. Here in yUK we do a lot of night shooting, mainly of foxes, the only predator left now that the Romans have gone. Let off any centre-fire rifle at night without one around here and within ten minutes you'd be lit up like a pole dancer by the Night-Sun chopper with it's crew of police 'marskmen'.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
But if you can easily afford a trip to the Isle of Mull for a guided red stag hunt, the cost of the scope is pocket change.

Not to mention everything else. Out of curiosity, I tried to find the price of that Sauer 404 XTC rifle the hunter was using. The only one I found that had sold had been advertised for £5841, or about $6900 at the current exchange rate. And that doesn’t include the suppressor.

And 2 pair of Swarovski EL binoculars $5 grand, 6 if they were the Range (they appear not to be AFAICT).

Then I would have to wear tweed jackets and neckties, nope.

Paying off the Scottish government to ensure that it wasn't pissing down with rain must have cost a tidy sum, as well.

I really like the scope

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Originally posted by tacfoley:
Paying off the Scottish government to ensure that it wasn't pissing down with rain must have cost a tidy sum, as well.

Okay, that's funny. Don't care who you are

Said the old guy whose only trip to Scotland was for a week and the weather cooperated

A course, that was in 1989...

I’ve spent several weeks in Scotland during three/four trips and didn’t think the rain was so bad.
Want rain? Go to Iceland.

Spent 6 days in Scotland a couple years ago (early summer), and had a couple mornings that were mildly misty, but no real rain. Otherwise, was sunny. Did a day trip from Oban where we took a ferry across to Isle of Mull, were bused across Mull and then a boat out to Fingal's Cave, then to Iona, and back to Mull. Bused back across Mull to the ferry back to Oban. Never saw a land based animal bigger than a dog, much less stags like in that advertisement. It was a great day, met some puffins around Fingal's Cave, drank some good beer, and generally wondered about those who lived there before petroleum based heating, particularly after the trees were all gone!

I have a pair of their EL binos and a z3 (their most affordable) scope. They make good stuff.

Be grateful you were never in the Outer Hebrides. The Ministry of Defence has a missile test facility out there called Benbecula [Ben Peculiar to those unlucky enough to get sent there].

The married quarters on the camp have no letter boxes in the front doors. It's a European thing - the mailman puts the letters through the flapped slot in the front door - mail boxes like you see all over North America just don't happen here.

Y'see, the horizontal rain, driven by the hundred mile and hour winds, blows straight into the house like a garden hose.

I was there one summer to see the then-new Starstreak missile in action, and was amazed to see a barbed-wire fence get blown down...