part 11 in our optics series is about chute something um well i can't really remember so
i guess we'll just kind of riff on something for a little while since there's all this wet stuff
falling from the sky i guess we can talk about waterproofing waterproofing as it turns out is
really important no matter where you live at some point you are going to get your scope wet
even if it's with the tears that you cry when you miss that 10-point buck but really you never know
when a thunderstorm is gonna pop up you never know when you're gonna trip and throw one of these into
a puddle or something if you're actually out in the real world doing real work and even if you're
just on a real range that's outdoors you are going to encounter water at some point now pretty much
all scopes nowadays are going to have some kind of waterproof listing on them everybody's going
to say that their stuff is waterproof and there are different levels i'm going to put a chart
here this is the ip ratings this is an indication of an actual kind of outside organization standard
of waterproofing and this applies to all kinds of things so this could be enclosures it could
be electronics it could be scopes and when you're dealing with waterproofing it's going to be ip
and then you're going to have x x is the how it deals with dust and debris um and if there is
some kind of rating for how it deals with dust and debris instead of an x it'll have a number
but the one that we're looking at is the number on the far right it's going to be zero
through eight and who knows what other kinds of things they'll be throwing in there there might
be some new standards at some point but yeah it's going to go from either not tested ipxx
ipx0 doesn't handle water at all don't get this wet and then all the way down to ipx8 which is
going to be go ahead and throw it into the shallow end of the pool and leave it there for who knows
how long and pull it up later everything's going to be fine now these kind of standards are going
to apply to some scopes i imagine it's it's an expensive proposition to actually take a scope
and get it tested by one of these international groups to see how it actually functions so you're
not going to see it all that often you're going to see it some and that's one of the reasons why i
kind of harp on bushnell bushnell apparently has tested a whole lot of their scopes out in real
world conditions and in these labs as well they've actually sent a bunch of these off and so we
actually have ipx7 ratings on i think pretty much all of their scopes from the prime on ups that's
the prime engage nitro forge up through elite tack tick cull these can handle a lot of water
and ipx7 means that i can throw this again into that shallow end of the pool for up to 30 minutes
and these as i have tested out in the real world yeah they can handle it i haven't thrown them in
the water or anything but they sure can't handle rain and nothing happens to them
so yeah if you are wanting to pick up a scope that you absolutely know is going to have
some kind of waterproofing to it go check out bushnell's catalog but then some of the others
they're going to have their own listings like the falcon that i just keep harping on
my buddies and i have done all kinds of terrible things to this scope and we have not damaged
it it actually has some little scratches in the finish has some chips where we've dropped it this
has been thrown into mud it's been thrown into water i've had this out in just deluge conditions
and there is no problem with this whatsoever on their own website they say that this can handle
um what is it yeah i think it's one meter of water or visit three meters of water
anyway it can handle some water it doesn't say for how long but uh yeah this can
this can deal with all kinds of nestea conditions as i have tested so yeah if your scope doesn't
have any kind of ip rating or any indication of how it deals with water for how long at what depth
then you can check out the independent scope reviewers you're going to be hearing from a lot
of folks like the people down in the description below some of my favorite optics reviewers
they will have actually gone out and tested a lot of these and they can let you know
if they actually stood up to wet weather or you know puddles the way that the company has stated
on their website now that's kind of a tough one a lot of people tested gear in you know
nice conditions so you may not hear everything that you want about every scope you like but
just know that somewhere the truth is out there and hopefully you can be able to find it in my own
reviews i'll let you know if i got a scope wet and how it dealt with the water for the most park i
have been seeing a lot of good results from a lot of these scopes even some on the lesser expensive
side the simmons have held up to water just fine they seem to have their o-rings in the right place
so if it rains even if it's a deluge i haven't had problems so far so i think we have a lot of
really good man you fracture hers right now that are trying to bake sure that things are waterproof
just keep your ears open if you hear of maybe a lesser-known company you know just see if
there's some information out there that's it for today about waterproofing it's kind of a
the wild west when it comes to that so good luck finding out what's actually out there don't miss
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