2016 Shot Show, Leupold Scope SURVIVAL STORIES.

[257hunter]

What's the first one, then?

Looks like a Mauser build of some kind, maybe a Parker hale? Definitely not a Weatherby, the bolt trigger and bottom metal are all wrong.

[kevin.303]

1903 springfield in a weatherby style stock

[Moe]

Anyone else notice how the rifles look like they were through hell and back but some of the scopes look like they just come out of the box?

Moe

[NicholasN]

Anyone else notice how the rifles look like they were through hell and back but some of the scopes look like they just come out of the box?

Moe

I suspect the tubes are made of aluminum, which doesn't oxidize the same way as the steel the actions and barrels are made of.

[kc34]

Anyone else notice how the rifles look like they were through hell and back but some of the scopes look like they just come out of the box?

Moe

I would expect that they gave the scopes a little clean up to get all the grim off of them and show that they survived. They are trying to promote Leupold scopes after all!

[kawicrash]

What's the first one, then?

1903 Springfield

[Jay]

Anyone else notice how the rifles look like they were through hell and back but some of the scopes look like they just come out of the box?

Moe

I would expect that they gave the scopes a little clean up to get all the grim off of them and show that they survived. They are trying to promote Leupold scopes after all!

For 3 of the rifles that took some real weathering, if they had not cleaned off the scopes, you wouldn't be able to tell they were Leupold...

Cheers
Jay

[Bartledan]

Looks like a Mauser build of some kind, maybe a Parker hale? Definitely not a Weatherby, the bolt trigger and bottom metal are all wrong.

Well then, they gots butterfingers too!

[mobusten]

How do they know the scopes still function properly or could hold zero? Most of those rifles don't look capable of firing a shot.

[kevin g]

That's pretty amazing ! A fella never thinks much about hunting accidents or near tragedys, even lives lost ....let alone the rifles lost or left behind by those events. Quite a testament about Leupolds scopes tho !!