SilentButDeadly

I asked the Sports Optics Rep repeatedly about a loaner pair - and she never answered me (the questions were over email) - I will call her right now and leave a message - I'll let you guys know what she says. T

Zeiss contacted me yesterday to finally ask for my credit card information to conduct the repair. It has taken 13 weeks to get to the point where I agreed on the neccessary repairs. On May 9th, 9 weeks after I sent in the binoculars I recieved this email: Dear Mr. Swetnam, I am sorry about the delay in sending you this breakdown of repairs from Germany. I wanted to do a breakdown of what is needed and what is being recommended by Germany Estimate repair cost from Germany: $2654.81 is for all of the repairs to be done What is needed for the repairs: $535.95 Replace eyepiece sleeve replace diopter ring of eyepiece replace eyecups replace eyepiece bridge replace lens armoring replace drive knob What is recommended for the repairs replace prism system Disassemble and assemble lens tube replace eyelens Disassemble and assemble prism system Best regards, Karen Bookout Customer Service/Repair Administrator Carl Zeiss Optical Inc. 13005 N. Kingston Avenue Chester, VA 23836 USA Phone: +1 800-441-3005 ext 8461 Fax: +1 804-530-8333 mailto:kbookout@zeiss.com http://www.zeiss.com/sports Currently the repair is set at 450 dollars for only the eyepiece sleeve, diopter ring of eyepiece, eye piece bridge, and driver knob. These were the pieces that were damaged when I dropped the binoculars. Zeiss is going to clean the binoculars, as part of the warranty - but as far as I know this is all the warranty will cover. I asked Karen today on the phone if there is anything that Zeiss can do for me since it has taken over three months to agree on a repair price - let alone the 8-16 weeks she says it will now take for the repair to be conducted. She told me that there is NOTHING that Zeiss can do. I told her that as a loyal Zeiss customer, and owner of several thousand dollars worth of Zeiss equipment I feel that I am owed some form of compensation for what I consider to be the unreasonable amount of time it is taking to get this repair done. She told me that she will 'put a rush order' on the job. I however have chosen to post this message as a warning to all of you Zeiss owners- BEWARE! I feel that as a company Zeiss is not interested in American Sport Optic owners, and will do little or nothing to ease the process of having your equipment repaired. My intention is to inform you fellow hunters that you would be better off buying your high end equipment from a company other than Zeiss. I am only one person, but I want Zeiss to know that through their incompetence in dealing with me they are damaging their professional image to hundreds of other customers who frequent this website and read this post. Tyson

I'd suggest shooting the first mature bull that comes into range. 260 doesn't look bad on the wall - and it looks ALOT better than nothing. As for broadhead/arrow, 75g Muzzy 3 blade, xforce carbon 300, did these elk in: 60 yards 40 yards

Has anyone else noticed an inordinate amount of grasshoppers bouncing around the last couple of days? I saw a couple thousand today while out running in some grassland ecotype, and there was a swarm around some lights here in town tonight on my way home.

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nice!

I like drop tines!!

If it was a rattler it is best he gets to the hospital ASAP to have them look at it - here is link to photos of people who didn't go http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0214503/Fi...ke%20Bites.html

Thanks, I'll check them out.

Since I bought my longbow I have a new appreciation and loathing for compound bows and their components. I've been shooting the longbow at 10 yards trying to develop some consistency. I went out the other day and got all the way out to 35 yards - still managed to plop most of my arrows into the vitals on a 3d antelope target. I then got my compound out, blew off the dust and tried shooting it at 20 yards. My groups were so tight that I now need to replace a couple of vanes on my arrows. I worked all the way back to 70 yards; I found that my accuracy at 60 was about the same as my accuracy with the longbow at 20. Anyway, my point is that just through working on form at 10 yards without a sight I was able to increase my accuracy at 60 with one. (My new found appreciation is that compounds are so fricking fast and accurate, my loathing is that I wish I was as good with my longbow). As for horizontal vs vertical, I like a horizontal multi-pin setup. I haven't purchased a vertical pin site - for the same reason that a few other people have mentioned -adjustability. In the heat of the moment, you've ranged your animal, and now you've got to adjust your single pin to the right distance? All that relies on a human carrying out a bunch of precision actions in fractions of a second. Conditions can change, you can make a mistake, and then you're out of the game. Personally I like my pins to be as small a diameter as I can get them, the fiber optics to be as short as possible (to avoid too great of glare), the sight to be rock solid, and difficult to adjust (to keep me from messing with it when I'm having a bad day shooting and I think that there is something wrong with the equipment), and for there to be enough pins for me to shoot (I want a new sight that goes out to 100 yards, anybody reccomend one? - no I'm not accurate at 100 (or much past 70 for that matter) - yet!).

ba-donk-adonk!

very close, I haven't measured it yet, but I guess it to be 46-48 (you might be spot on though...) T

been meaning to post this little guy, I found him last month under a bush... thought it was a bit of bone before I picked it up. Tyson

at least they were only there to swim....

Found my first fresh Coues shed this morning!!!! It is from a buck I found the same side off of last year. Unfortunately, I only found that single side - now I have the same single side from this year! He is almost identical to last year, except that he put on a couple inches of tine and some more mass, I figure he'd go in the 60's. Both pedicles still have rings of skin on them - I'll call them 'Angel Halos' cuz thats what they feel like to me! I'm pretty sure that this was the buck I saw with the buck I killed in September - maybe his 'little' brother. here are the pics. So much for sleeping in every morning (the little shed hunting demon is stirring inside me again), now to find the big boys!

I've been hearing about this too. I think that being able to camp where we want to is one of the greatest privileges that we have on our National Forests. I would be seriously PO'd if I had to camp in a designated campground with a bunch of greenhorn retiree coleman-campers, with babies crying, and teenagers drinking all night and making a ruckus... And the chances of leaving my gear unattended all day while I am gone? NO WAY! I shudder. I think that the DOI, and USDA FS have to pony up and hire additional seasonal law enforcement if they really want to solve to problem of mis-use. You can say 'these roads are now closed', but if you don't have enough man power to get out there and stop the abuse nothing will change. Let me know when this comes up for discussion in Tucson, I'll be there and I will drag everyone I can, kicking and screaming, there with me.

I don't think that she is going to win the Democratic primary, I don't know any Dems that are going to vote for her. Who is going to win? Obama.

I finally asked my father-in-law if I could borrow a set of antlers he has from a buck he hunted back in the 90's (or 80's - I wasn't really listening to the story that well - the sheds distracted me). His story went that he archery hunted this buck for 20 some days one season but couldn't close the deal on him, went out in the summer and found his sheds. The buck was shot by a rifle hunter the next year (I think there might be a photo of it on Reynold's Coue's Connection - but I can't confirm). This buck had the best mass of any sheds I've ever handled. He was an absolute bruiser! Its no wonder he didn't even chip a point off that year. They measure at 53/49 inches without a spread Anyway here are some of the photos. Bladed tip The G3 is 9 inches That is the left antler next to a shed of mine that measures 38 inches.

Definetly battle ready....

Here is a link to the University of Arizona's digital map archive, they have virtually all Quads for Arizona, and they are free (digitally), you just need to register your name and email address. http://aria.arizona.edu/search/

Desertbull, I think I see what you are saying, but let me make sure. -This bill would make it so that EVERY contact made by a politician and a private party (you, me, or a corporate fat cat) would have to be recorded.... Is that what you are talking about?

The bill is intended to force the White house into releasing information regarding the aformentioned events - currently they refuse to do so, and when forced they 'accidentally erase' millions of emails and forget conversations that pertain to their involvement. http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070...64005-21889.pdf

I believe that the Bush White House is guilty of using partisan political maneauver to manipulate both the legislature and the press to futher its own goals (everything from the invasion of Iraq, to Valerie Plame, to the Attorney Firings - there are probably half a dozen more things to list). I would expect a President to use confidentiality and sneakiness to help the United States (see Theodore Roosevelt and his foreign policy). However the Bush administration has proven itself time and again to be completely inept at virtually all foreign policy decisions. Its time that republicans pull their heads out of the sand and realize that the Bush administration is horrendous, and Bush is probably the worst thing to happen to America since Hoover. Where are the Theodore Roosevelts, the Dwight Eisenhowers?

If only ranchers can set out salt, I guess guided hunts on private land might start seeing some big bucks in the future. Wish I had a couple of cows... (and a 5,000 acre ranch somewhere in Unit 33 while I'm at it....)

I envy you Swaro folks, My damaged 15x60 Zeiss had to be sent to Germany. Zeiss USA never contacted me about them having to send them over seas for repair, nor have they quoted me a price. I contacted them after waiting 3 weeks for a response (it took 3 tries - 2 emails and a phone message). At last contact they told me it would be 10 weeks before I get them back... T