Got a chuckle from Sportsman's Guide Catalog - Counter Sniper Scopes

lipadj46 · July 29, 2009, 08:07 PM

I was browsing the Sportsman's Guide today just procrastinating from grading a mountain of papers and I see that Counter Sniper Scopes are now USGI and you can get the 3-25x56 model with "14 total lenses" for the bargain basement price of $689.97. They originally cost the US government $2,997.99!!!, what a deal!

I had forgotten about Counter Sniper and figured they had just gone out of business by now. Who buys these things? Their website is good for a chuckle. The specs read like they are straight out of a bad sci-fi novel, 24-step Bertrillium-Zantitium coatings, Hydroshear ice displacement coating, rare earth sealed, viton sealed etc. Also check out that reticle, total awesomeness.

matrem · July 29, 2009, 08:19 PM

I get a chuckle from them every time one of their catalogs show up in my mailbox.Haven't bought anything from them for eleven or twelve years? But they're very persistent!

USSR · July 29, 2009, 09:50 PM

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Who buys these things?

There's a sucker born every minute.

Don

krochus · July 29, 2009, 09:54 PM

What good is a scope to me that can only be used to shoot other snipers.

Ol` Joe · July 29, 2009, 11:12 PM

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I had forgotten about these guys and figured they had just gone out of business by now. Who buys these things? Their website is good for a chuckle. The specs read like they are straight out of a bad sci-fi novel, 24-step Bertrillium-Zantitium coatings, Hydroshear ice displacement coating, rare earth sealed, viton sealed etc. Also check out that reticle, total awesomeness.

Every time I thumb one of these I`m reminded of the old Herters catalog.

Herters claimed every item was "claimed best of the best by the only top pro who knew up from down in the field", "voted perfect in every way by professional African trackers", "made of the finest steels processed by the lost art of the pharohs own smiths".
I loved reading them and dreaming big dreams as a kid....

Roadwild17 · July 29, 2009, 11:12 PM

I looked at these things 2 times at gun shows before I looked them up online. Funny thing, they never have a price on them at the gun show. Its always a "This is a $3000 scope, but we can give it to you for about $850 today only." yeah right

The Real Mags · July 29, 2009, 11:30 PM

Just got the SG shooters catalog in the mail today, I have never ordered from them don't know why I get em but they just go in the bathroom for a quick look through every now and then. I did see the scope mentioned in the catalog the recticle looked to busy too me.

nwilliams · July 30, 2009, 12:19 AM

You mean this one

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/c....aspx?a=556346

You know that as soon as you install this scope on your rifle you automatically turn into a sniper with all the skills you need

I love descriptions like these....

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Now we "civvies" can nab this rare offer of military overruns at mind-boggling savings! Choose your power: the 3-25x56 mm, 3-9x42 mm or the 2-16x44 mm Tactical Scope.

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Covert Matte Black Hardcoat

It makes me feel tacticool just reading it!

THE MACHINIST · July 30, 2009, 12:26 AM

someone buy one and tell us how it performs!!!!! hahahah....good bathroom reading along with the jc whitney or harbor freight catalog.

**Dr.Rob** · July 30, 2009, 12:57 AM

Aw come on you know you bought stuff or you wouldn't keep GETTING the catalogs.

JohnnyOrygun · July 30, 2009, 01:42 AM

I bet Gecko45 has one

! Honestly that is so tacticool that us regular civilians could never use it to it's fullest potential... btw, I would probably get shot my the enemy sniper while I was trying to figure out that reticle!

Oh well, you know the saying... "A fool and his money are soon parted"

JohnnyOrygun

Ratshooter · July 30, 2009, 01:48 AM

Yep those are some of the best "sittin on the pot" catalogs you can get. Too bad the slick paper isn't more "User friendly".

slzy · July 30, 2009, 01:48 AM

5,000x the force of gravity sounds good to me

lipadj46 · July 30, 2009, 01:49 AM

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Aw come on you know you bought stuff or you wouldn't keep GETTING the catalogs.

I bought a pair of nice gore tex camo bibs for $19 last spring. So that is why I always look, it ain't like the good old days of russian and US surplus though.

slzy · July 30, 2009, 03:27 AM

i bought a brand new soviet era mine detector,with about a 9' extension or so that works under water.

i loaned it to my metal detecting friends who says it works great.

bensdad · July 30, 2009, 04:08 AM

Yowza!!! I had a siezure just looking at that reticle. That's, um, busy. Sportsman's Guide also recently had, I kid you not, Tactical Coffee.

jim in Anchorage · July 30, 2009, 04:19 AM

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Every time I thumb one of these I`m reminded of the old Herters catalog.

Herters claimed every item was "claimed best of the best by the only top pro who knew up from down in the field", "voted perfect in every way by professional African trackers", "made of the finest steels processed by the lost art of the pharohs own smiths".I loved reading them and dreaming big dreams as a kid....

I am going to shamlessly copy that

krochus · July 30, 2009, 05:29 AM

What does one mount a counter sniper scope on????

why your counter sniper rifle of course
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=134795037
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=134704850
in urban and ultimate varieties, coming to a tactical wheelbarrow near you

JimmAr · July 30, 2009, 05:59 AM

What happens when your counter sniper scope fails and you get sniped.. can your next of kin get a refund?

krs · July 30, 2009, 09:12 AM

In defense of Sportsman's Guide - They buy up closeouts, last years fashions, factory seconds, and the remaining inventory of businesses gone under and sell them at discounts.

If this scope doesn't sell, they'll keep marking it down until it does so you all will eventually be able to buy one for about $50. if they're not all gone at $100.

Mr. Bojangles · July 30, 2009, 09:24 AM

The scope is absolutely laughable

I still buy other things from sportsmans guide, though. Their surplus ammo is reasonably priced by today's standards. It's better than some other catalog companies that have completely absurd prices on ammo. You all know who I'm talking about.

lipadj46 · July 30, 2009, 09:24 AM

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In defense of Sportsman's Guide - They buy up closeouts, last years fashions, factory seconds, and the remaining inventory of businesses gone under and sell them at discounts.

That's what they used to be, now they sell regular stocked items also (see the latest model EOTechs). Hopefully these things are closeouts though. Though if there are people out there that fall for all that BS I guess they deserve it.

DMK · July 30, 2009, 09:27 AM

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I get a chuckle from them every time one of their catalogs show up in my mailbox.Haven't bought anything from them for eleven or twelve years? But they're very persistent!

+1
I give them props for creativity and amusing product descriptions.

I used to buy ammo from them and some milsurp accessories like holsters and mag pouches, but haven't in about four or five years.

DeepSouth · July 30, 2009, 09:35 AM

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Aw come on you know you bought stuff or you wouldn't keep GETTING the catalogs.

I'll admit it. I buy ammo and targets from them all the they almost always have the lowest price on AK ammo and IPSC targets around. Every now and then I buy something else from them, you just gotta learn to ignore all the "sales tactics" they use.

Bottom line, If I'm looking for a specific item I'll look to see if they have it and compare prices.

SFilpansick · July 30, 2009, 09:47 AM

Actually guys... most of that description comes right from the manufacturer!

http://www.countersniperoptics.com/c...d=9099121.8480

July 29, 2009, 08:07 PM	#1
lipadj46 Member Join Date: November 20, 2008 Posts: 1,881	Got a chuckle from Sportsman's Guide Catalog - Counter Sniper Scopes I was browsing the Sportsman's Guide today just procrastinating from grading a mountain of papers and I see that Counter Sniper Scopes are now USGI and you can get the 3-25x56 model with "14 total lenses" for the bargain basement price of $689.97. They originally cost the US government $2,997.99!!!, what a deal! I had forgotten about Counter Sniper and figured they had just gone out of business by now. Who buys these things? Their website is good for a chuckle. The specs read like they are straight out of a bad sci-fi novel, 24-step Bertrillium-Zantitium coatings, Hydroshear ice displacement coating, rare earth sealed, viton sealed etc. Also check out that reticle, total awesomeness. __________________ John Gabriel's Greater Internet censored obscenity Theory states that "Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total censored obscenity" (yes including me) Last edited by lipadj46; July 30, 2009 at 12:57 AM.

July 29, 2009, 08:19 PM	#2
matrem Member Join Date: July 8, 2008 Location: Central Ohio Posts: 581	I get a chuckle from them every time one of their catalogs show up in my mailbox.Haven't bought anything from them for eleven or twelve years? But they're very persistent! __________________ NRA Life Member Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.

July 29, 2009, 09:54 PM	#4
krochus Member Join Date: October 14, 2005 Location: Northwest Arkansas Posts: 5,871	What good is a scope to me that can only be used to shoot other snipers. __________________ *Have you taken an AR15 hunting recently? Please think of the poor unfortunate EBR's will you?* .223 rem Buck 7.62x39mm Doe

July 29, 2009, 11:12 PM	#6
Roadwild17 Member Join Date: June 15, 2005 Location: Undisclosed Posts: 1,143	I looked at these things 2 times at gun shows before I looked them up online. Funny thing, they never have a price on them at the gun show. Its always a "This is a $3000 scope, but we can give it to you for about $850 today only." yeah right __________________ The second amendment, it’s not about hunting! Without gun control, there are tragedies. With it, there are genocides. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing ~ Edmund Burke

July 29, 2009, 11:30 PM	#7
The Real Mags Member Join Date: April 8, 2009 Location: Albuquerque Posts: 1,778	Just got the SG shooters catalog in the mail today, I have never ordered from them don't know why I get em but they just go in the bathroom for a quick look through every now and then. I did see the scope mentioned in the catalog the recticle looked to busy too me. __________________ My nickname at work and life is Mags however that screen name is taken by some guy who made two post and hasn't logged in since May 2006. So please call me "Mags" not "The Real Mags". Thank You.

July 30, 2009, 12:26 AM	#9
THE MACHINIST Member Join Date: January 28, 2008 Location: tucson az. gallup nm. Posts: 160	someone buy one and tell us how it performs!!!!! hahahah....good bathroom reading along with the jc whitney or harbor freight catalog. __________________ "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their 'constitutional' right of amending it or their 'revolutionary' right to dismember or overthrow it." Abraham Lincoln, First inaugural address, March 4, 1861.

July 30, 2009, 12:57 AM	#10
Dr.Rob Moderator Join Date: December 23, 2002 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 6,934	Aw come on you know you bought stuff or you wouldn't keep GETTING the catalogs. __________________ Former TFL Moderator. "Guess you broke into the WRONG rec room!" ;)

July 30, 2009, 01:42 AM	#11
JohnnyOrygun Member Join Date: September 28, 2007 Location: Southern Oregon Posts: 313	I bet Gecko45 has one! Honestly that is so tacticool that us regular civilians could never use it to it's fullest potential... btw, I would probably get shot my the enemy sniper while I was trying to figure out that reticle! Oh well, you know the saying... "A fool and his money are soon parted" JohnnyOrygun __________________ I have more guns then I need, but no where near all that I want. Still clinging to God and my guns. To paraphrase our "dear" leader.

July 30, 2009, 01:48 AM	#12
Ratshooter Member Join Date: September 27, 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 1,302	Yep those are some of the best "sittin on the pot" catalogs you can get. Too bad the slick paper isn't more "User friendly". __________________ In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. -John Adams "It's good to want things. It shows you're not dead."

July 30, 2009, 01:48 AM	#13
slzy Member Join Date: February 16, 2005 Posts: 868	5,000x the force of gravity sounds good to me

July 30, 2009, 03:27 AM	#15
slzy Member Join Date: February 16, 2005 Posts: 868	i bought a brand new soviet era mine detector,with about a 9' extension or so that works under water. i loaned it to my metal detecting friends who says it works great.

July 30, 2009, 04:08 AM	#16
bensdad Member Join Date: March 8, 2007 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,175	Yowza!!! I had a siezure just looking at that reticle. That's, um, busy. Sportsman's Guide also recently had, I kid you not, Tactical Coffee. __________________ Gimme back my bullets!

July 30, 2009, 05:29 AM	#18
krochus Member Join Date: October 14, 2005 Location: Northwest Arkansas Posts: 5,871	What does one mount a counter sniper scope on???? why your counter sniper rifle of course http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=134795037 http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=134704850 in urban and ultimate varieties, coming to a tactical wheelbarrow near you __________________ *Have you taken an AR15 hunting recently? Please think of the poor unfortunate EBR's will you?* .223 rem Buck 7.62x39mm Doe

July 30, 2009, 05:59 AM	#19
JimmAr Member Join Date: November 16, 2008 Posts: 224	What happens when your counter sniper scope fails and you get sniped.. can your next of kin get a refund?

July 30, 2009, 09:12 AM	#20
krs Member Join Date: January 16, 2006 Location: Tall Trees Posts: 2,528	In defense of Sportsman's Guide - They buy up closeouts, last years fashions, factory seconds, and the remaining inventory of businesses gone under and sell them at discounts. If this scope doesn't sell, they'll keep marking it down until it does so you all will eventually be able to buy one for about $50. if they're not all gone at $100.

July 30, 2009, 09:24 AM	#21
Mr. Bojangles Member Join Date: November 14, 2008 Location: Kennewick, WA Posts: 336	The scope is absolutely laughable I still buy other things from sportsmans guide, though. Their surplus ammo is reasonably priced by today's standards. It's better than some other catalog companies that have completely absurd prices on ammo. You all know who I'm talking about.

July 30, 2009, 09:47 AM	#25
SFilpansick Member Join Date: July 22, 2009 Location: Flint MI Posts: 17	Actually guys... most of that description comes right from the manufacturer! http://www.countersniperoptics.com/c...d=9099121.8480

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