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ForgottenUserName said:
The hatred of scopes comes from a time when scopes were fragile and relying on them would mean you're fucked if they break. He sounds like Hank Hill complaining that kids these days aren't learning the fundamentals when he goes on about iron sites.
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Who is bitching about scopes? Karl? Cause good modern scopes are pretty indestructible. Yes you will pay for it, but considering the USMC had been issuing trijicons for 10+ years and those retards haven’t been able to break them I’m sold.
 
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SmokeyMcRunFast said:
Who is bitching about scopes? Karl? Cause good modern scopes are pretty indestructible. Yes you will pay for it, but considering the USMC had been issuing trijicons for 10+ years and those retards haven’t been able to break them I’m sold.
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I think he was talking about Paul Harrel not preferring scopes.
 
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SmokeyMcRunFast said:
Who is bitching about scopes? Karl? Cause good modern scopes are pretty indestructible. Yes you will pay for it, but considering the USMC had been issuing trijicons for 10+ years and those retards haven’t been able to break them I’m sold.
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Paul Harrel doesn't like scopes. If your primary experience with optics has been hunting scopes, they are still pretty fragile compared to acogs, aimpoints, or eotechs. Military optics are built for durability, hunting optics are made with clarity and weight as the most important factors. The days of wire crosshairs are long gone, but you can still potentially lose zero or crack a lens if you take a tumble with an ultralight Leupold.
 
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Some of Harrell’s content seems dated and fuddish but he seems like a good guy.
In contrast to Karl, who seems to advocate more up to date tactics, equipment etc...but is just....well, Karl.
I really don’t hate the guy, but he’s just gotten a lot harder to like.
It’s like....in many cases Karl’s positions on things aren’t even positions I disagree with. He just makes his case for these things in the worst, most off-putting ways possible
 
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Scopes much like everything else nowadays have been in many varieties to cater to just about everyone if they are willing to spend the $$$.
 
I also fail to see how hunting scopes being less reliable than military scopes somehow gives a reason to dislike them. While having your hunting scope damaged sucks and is probably going to ruin your day, there's probably more situations where having a scope would have been beneficial, and at least if you're hunting having a broken scope won't be life threatening.
 
WhoBusTank69 said:
Paul likes ironsights and doesn't personally like scopes because he's primarily trained on ironsights for most of his life.
Karl thinks ironsights are obsolete and swears by Chinese optics because he runs and guns to the timer.
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Aka they're both retards. Paul is stuck in the past and Karl endorses cheap ass JuSt As GoOd chinesium.
 
WhoBusTank69 said:
Paul likes ironsights and doesn't personally like scopes because he's primarily trained on ironsights for most of his life.
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I had the same Luddite proclivities for decades, but it wasn't until recently I admitted to myself that my eyes just suck.

The problems I had with scopes was that stadia lines & cross hairs disappear, and the glasses I finally got that fix it fuck with eye-relief too much. And because I shoot with both eyes open (even when I try not to), anything more magnifying than a red-dot screws with my vision so badly that I tend to lose balance, and I start getting duplicate images.

One of the reasons I pestered my platoon sergeant & training room NCO endlessly to switch to crew-served, is because qualifying on the MG (doesn't matter what) was a snap compared to rifle.

I could deal with iron sights because while rear notch/peep sights vanish as well, but I still saw the front post well enough that I could zero and qualify rifle with at least 36/40, but would still come back with a raging headache. I never had any such problem on the M2 (or any other firearms with hooded front sight posts)
 
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Pocket Dragoon said:
I had the same Luddite proclivities for decades, but it wasn't until recently I admitted to myself that my eyes just suck.

The problems I had with scopes was that stadia lines & cross hairs disappear, and the glasses I finally got that fix it fuck with eye-relief too much. And because I shoot with both eyes open (even when I try not to), anything more magnifying than a red-dot screws with my vision so badly that I tend to lose balance, and I start getting duplicate images.

One of the reasons I pestered my platoon sergeant & training room NCO endlessly to switch to crew-served, is because qualifying on the MG (doesn't matter what) was a snap compared to rifle.

I could deal with iron sights because while rear notch/peep sights vanish as well, but I still saw the front post well enough that I could zero and qualify rifle with at least 36/40, but would still come back with a raging headache. I never had any such problem on the M2 (or any other firearms with hooded front sight posts)
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You've messed with the focus adjustment on the scope, right? Most people can get it working if they get the scope focused to their eye.
 
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waffle said:
You've messed with the focus adjustment on the scope, right? Most people can get it working if they get the scope focused to their eye.
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I can set up a 1x scope close enough for government work, and I've had good luck with a 2x magnifier.

I've also noticed that scout-mount scopes generally aren't a problem for me either; the caveat being I have to pick the correct target image if I'm shooting as normal (with both eyes open).
 
Anybody watch the recent FW, "Curators Speak Out"? It was long-winded, but informative (although mostly not surprising).

And I'm on the fence about that Ashley individual; the dangerhair switch kinda ruins it, previous videos she was 10/10.
 
Pocket Dragoon said:
Anybody watch the recent FW, "Curators Speak Out"? It was long-winded, but informative (although mostly not surprising).

And I'm on the fence about that Ashley individual; the dangerhair switch kinda ruins it, previous videos she was 10/10.
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It did feel redundant but at least put it on the table that private museums will feel the same sting we do should anything happen.
The dangerhair I can almost excuse because the pandemic fucked up a lot of people, but the attitude makes me think people don't listening to her. This was her soapbox and Ian handed her a megaphone.
 
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Pocket Dragoon said:
Anybody watch the recent FW, "Curators Speak Out"? It was long-winded, but informative (although mostly not surprising).

And I'm on the fence about that Ashley individual; the dangerhair switch kinda ruins it, previous videos she was 10/10.
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I got the vibe that she had a general curating background rather than a specific firearms related one.

Incidentally I think it's a really good sign when Museums swap out their curators every few years. It stops one guy settling in and turning the whole thing into his own little fiefdom.
 
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WhoBusTank69 said:

Looks like Karl sees the light. Rather than encouraging hopping from platform to platform again, he's pointing fingers at payment processors.
Our dear leader would be proud.
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Other than @Null 's streams, Karl is the first YouTuber I've watched that's focused on the Payment processors, as well as the infastructure providers such as Cloudflare. Karl has a lot of boomers following him, maybe he'll succeed in educating a few of them.
 
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WhoBusTank69 said:
The chance is slight; as he explained in the video they're bitching about using PornHub as an example yet again. Missing the big picture and opting to freak out about little things is what boomers do.
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Pornhub got attacked by the card processors, yeah it's no great loss, but it's like Alex Jones. They've set the precedent where a platforms banking can be compromised.
 
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