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I got off work today at 7am drove like a hellish idiot got home jumped in my gear grabbed my crossbow and literally ran almost a kilometer thru the clover to get to the ditch in the fog before the sun came up. 25 yards short of the treeline in the fog I see a deer standing broadside I thru the bow up and see nothing. Not a damn thing. I look over the bow and it is a big doe. She's stupid and walks right at me. I still see nothing in my scope. After a 3 minute battle holding my bow up I gave in and sat down in the clover she hopped back 10 yards or so. After another 10 minutes I can see her watching me ears out tail up as I'm rippen off my camo to get to soft shirt to wipe my lens. I look up and there stands a 11 point maybe 12. He walks up behind the doe. Again I still see nothing inthe scope. After what seemed like eternity they both ran off with the other 5 deer I had not seen only 50 yards away. I make a mad dash to the edge of the clover and tree line and watch the 7 deer play for almost an half an hour at 350 yards away. They dissappear so I wait. Knowing I f*cked up I get up and start to walk back home when I see the 7 deer in the clover 400 yards or so out. Again my scope was so foggy on the lens I could barely make them out. So I dove on my face and leopard crawled thru wet clover for almost the 1/4mile only to find out I'm a 100 yards short and the 5 does walk out and into the corn. So I crawled to where they were and waited. Called the gf on my cell and asked her to glass the field from the house. She screams I see a deer I see a deer its running. I'm laying in the clover. I pop my head up and damn near #### myself a buck almost runs into me. And in the corn it goes. After a minute and some loud words I pick up my drenched bow and stand up swearin at myself. I look up and there's a huge deer. 8point buck walking toward the corn. Finally my scope is clear I wait. 100-90-80-70 and he saw me. I watched him thru my scope but feared to look over to judge an accurate distance. He turned left he turned right he walked back and forth and I couldn't keep the bow steady enough for a shot so with a sinking heart he walked to the corn. I paced it off at 67 yards On a positive side my cabelas dry plus kept me dry 100%. I missed out on a buck of my dreams because a cheap ass scopefogged up. I beg you all for suggestions. WHaT is the BEST anti fog treatment for scopes?
 
I haven't tried it on a scope yet, but for scuba diving spitting some saliva on the inside of your goggles and spreading it around a bit helps stop them from fogging up during a dive. If I had been in your situation I probably would have tried that.

The only other option I've heard of is a product made by the same people that make Dyna-Bore Coat, it's a lens coating that they claim is similar to the Bushnell Rainguard, but you apply it yourself with a wipe. I have no experience with this product so I can't comment on if it works or how long it lasts.

Sorry for the experience :( at least you've got a story to tell, it'll probably be alot more funny to recount a few years down the road.

Red
 
If your scope is fogging, either try Butler Creek scope covers or replace your scope. You stated it was a cheap ass scope. If you cheap out on the optics.. well... you found out what happens. :bangHead:

-Jason
 
I lost a nice deer standing real close once when I got to excited and breathed on my scope at -20c and fogged it up.....after that I went to a store that sells glasses and got some anti-fog spray.It seemed to help,live and learn! Hope you find that pretty boy again.
 
sunlight dishwashing detergent works well, i used to use it on my hockey mask back in the day and it works on scope lenses too.....go figure, dad knew what he was talkin about way back when!!!LOL
 
Its a crossbow fixed 4x scope. Normally its great just today was bad conditions. The multi crosshairs line up exactly 20 30 40 50 and 70 yards so I want to keep it
Thanks for the replies
 
Any SCUBA dive shop shoudl have anti fog in a little bottle ... a drop or two on each lense and you should be good to go. I've used it on snowmobile visors, sunglasses, etc and it has worked quite well. I'm all out of it at the moment or I'd give you the brand name of it.
 
brybenn said:
Its a crossbow fixed 4x scope. Normally its great just today was bad conditions. The multi crosshairs line up exactly 20 30 40 50 and 70 yards so I want to keep it
Thanks for the replies
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but if you can't see through it, what good is it? do you always hunt in fair weather? how many more deer do you want to pass up?

-Jason
 
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