Rifle Scopes Up the Butler Creek

[BobinNC]

There are many posts weekly about what BC covers fit what scope. There is even a nice sticky here on the Hide under Optics FAQ's by sobrbiker883 here:

Optic's FAQ's BC Chart

In addition there is this chart by EA Brown Co here:

EA Brown BC Cover Chart

Although they are both great resources and I use them all the time, they both suffer from some problems; <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">They are often wrong, and they are missing the newer models of scopes</span></span>.

For example look at the two charts for the Bushnell 4200 Elite series: The EA Brown Chart says the eyes are all #11's. Our FAQ's chart says:# 10,11,14,& 19.

So which is right and which is wrong? BTSOOM (which means in Hawaiian: Beats the Shit Out of Me.)

Due to engineering changes that scope makers do all the time, they both could be right at one point in time or another.

This is not intended to slam the authors of these resources. But rather take everything listed with a grain of salt.

So is there an absolutely positively way of not ordering the wrong BC covers??? Well now that you ask, there is, several.

One is when you order a scope from one of our fine vendors like, Liberty Optics or SWFA, for example you can just ask them to send along your correct ones with your order. Or you could just call and ask them which to order for your scope, if that sell that model.

Failing that, or buying a used scope of dubious lineage, you can do this:

You only need three things:

1) A set of calipers
2) Your hot little hands on the scope your are planning to order covers for.
3) This chart below from Butler Creek themselves:

BC Products Chart

That's the limit of my knowledge on how to obtain the correct BC scope covers.

Perhaps other posters will have other clever ideas that I overlooked.

Thanks for reading,

Bob