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Leupold flip up lens cover cost how much?
yoshmyster
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So I went looking and on Leupold's site they want $80!?! Part # 59040 a 36mm cover. How crazy is that? At that price I might as well get a Anti-Reflective Device at $160 Part # 62875. I wonder if Butler Creek makes cheap flip up ones for $10?
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Yes they do, bought some last spring.
you know about google, right?
Butler Creek work great.
I use the Butler Creek bikini scope covers on my hunting rifles. They seal against water and dust, and are quiet when removing them. I just take them off and wad them up in a pocket. Less than $10 on sale.
You think the 36mm is expensive, I just bought one of these:
The Alumina covers went up about 50% at the first of this year. I think that they are worth the price.
Flip up lens covers are much less useful than you might guess, unless you live in rainforest or something similar.
Mobuck - Yes I do. I was typing out loud. Also google ain't there for conversating.
toad67 - $170 is much. The covers went up 50%? So the ones I was looking at cost $40 earlier this year? That's still much for what they do. Lens cover for a RDS that ain't working for my eye I'm going to spend the least to get by.
I just wanted a lens cover to keep the dust off while stored. Also with the money saved I can by those scope brush pen and save the money for another scope.
I like the old Anderson Storm Queen lens covers.......when I can find them (heck.......I even bought out their remaining stock a few decades ago).
They are all rubber (no metal screws), with cupped end caps.
Great for storage or transport.
What's not to like?! 😉
If you want to keep dust off while stored, just get some neoprene scope covers. It will keep dust off of the lenses, as well as help with protecting it and other guns from dings. For the price these should work well for what you want.
https://www.gunbroker.com/All/search?Keywords=Hornady%20neoprene%20scope%20cover&Sort=13
I vote for Bikini scope covers too. The local Walmart sells them for about $7.
When it comes to hunting bikini covers work just fine, if it would start to rain just slip it on. As for me if starts to rain I’m going back to the house or the cabin and hunt from there.