Quoted: Mr Wilson, what brand and where do you buy them?
You buy 10 at a time? How long do they normally last?
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I buy the Leupold ones and IIRC the last 10 I bought came from a sale at MidWay (ya know those sales brochure papers they sent ever few months, believe they were $5.95 ea)
Taken care of they'll last years, (some I have are years old, litely used, depends on whether your careful to not get the felt wiper contaminated with dust/dirt) and I tend to supply both my dad, bro-in-law, uncles and friends, so that's why I always get extras.
Carry one in my briefcase daily, there's one on my living room coffee table, their in almost every gun case I own (where rifle has scope or optic)....
Like spare firearms parts, I'm somewhat anal retentive about replacement parts, rebuild kits for mags and gagetry related to survival and arms.
With so many scope companys using "highly specialized coatings" on their glass, it's hard to know what's best to use. There's those little tissue paper like squares, all kinds of sprays & cleaners (some of which are definate NO-NOs on coated glass) so I figure if I trust Leupold's glass for my scopes might as well trust what they make to care for it.
Mike
ps - I hate to pick up a high dollar scope only to find the last time the guy cleaned his rifle's bore he forget to protect his scope lenses/or don't use any protection for them at all and got bore cleaner or some other contaminant on his "high-dollar" glass, which creates spots or eats away the coatings.
Yes, my dad is correct the BC caps mentioned above are somewhat distracting & or cluttering, but keeping the lenses covered anytime the scope is NOT in use IS the best protection and the Butler Creek ones work for me, YMMV.
BTW, the lens-pen is no subsititute for adequate protection for the scope lenses from the get-go, IMO you should never tote your scope around uncovered (most of them cost too much NOT to take good care of them).