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Title: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: Kilroy on January 16, 2009, 07:38:41 PM
Very rare, seldom seen optic suitable for...

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=120592074 (http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=120592074)
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: ericire12 on January 16, 2009, 07:47:05 PM
 ;D
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: TAB on January 16, 2009, 07:52:05 PM
 ;D
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 16, 2009, 07:54:10 PM
Guess the Chinese aren't the only ones doing knock offs.
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: Big Frank on January 16, 2009, 08:06:18 PM
That's so rare I never even heard of it.  ::)
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: brosometal on January 16, 2009, 08:46:35 PM
Took me a minute, but I'm on board.  Is it ignorance or malice?
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: Pathfinder on January 16, 2009, 08:50:13 PM
As they say on the Magpul website, never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: Thanos on January 16, 2009, 08:51:47 PM
And proceeded with the uber rare marking before the first "S" ;)
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: alfsauve on January 17, 2009, 07:42:33 AM
I take offense at calling SNOWWIS "cheap".   Okay they are on the lower end of the cost scale, but I like my ORPRIA SNOWWIS  model in -12 to -4x04 OA.   I'm sorry they discontinued those models.  Mine were made in tiny protectorate of ANIHC.

Alf

[this tag line is umop apisdn]
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: ericire12 on January 17, 2009, 07:45:36 AM
I take offense at calling SNOWWIS "cheap".   Okay they are on the lower end of the cost scale, but I like my ORPRIA SNOWWIS  model in -12 to -4x04 OA.   I'm sorry they discontinued those models.  Mine were made in tiny protectorate of ANIHC.

Alf

[this tag line is umop apisdn]

They are cheap! If I had an SKS, I'd probably put a Simmons scope on it!  ;D
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: ericire12 on January 17, 2009, 07:52:26 AM
Might I add.....


80085
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 17, 2009, 09:01:24 AM
I saw something either here or in a gun magazine about knock offs like this coming out of the former soviet union, I don't remember if it was Russia or one of the republics.
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: PegLeg45 on January 17, 2009, 11:52:50 AM
That's like going to the auto parts store and asking for a "710" cap for a Chevy pickup.       ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: brosometal on January 19, 2009, 12:29:06 PM
The gun sold.  I do have a PDF of the auction for future preservation.  The funniest:

Quote
[Information added 01/16/2009 10:23:34 PM]
I cannot keep up w/e­mails regarding the snowwis scope.You are killing me.Please bid on the rifle only and consider the scope free value added.THANKS.

Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: ericire12 on January 19, 2009, 12:31:56 PM
Quote
[Information added 01/16/2009 10:23:34 PM]
I cannot keep up w/e­mails regarding the snowwis scope.You are killing me.Please bid on the rifle only and consider the scope free value added.THANKS.

Yeah, it was floating around on other gun forums as well..... I bet there were a lot of people out there having fun with that guy.
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 20, 2009, 12:39:26 AM
Yeah, it was floating around on other gun forums as well..... I bet there were a lot of people out there having fun with that guy.

Ya think ?  ;D
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: Big Frank on January 26, 2009, 11:03:34 PM
I keep thinking about the rarely encountered Snowwis scope. This guy must have seen OTHER Snowwis scopes before this.  :-[ 
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: alfsauve on January 27, 2009, 06:32:18 AM
Perhaps he had been use to using those not so famous uoʞɪu scopes
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: ericire12 on January 27, 2009, 07:06:42 AM
Perhaps he had been use to using those not so famous uoʞɪu scopes

Are you just picturing every piece of shooting gear written upside down now?


Exit question: How the hell did you type the k upside down?
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: alfsauve on January 27, 2009, 07:54:02 AM
Exit question: How the hell did you type the k upside down?

I'm sort of an "outlier" (a very good book to read BTW) when it comes to this stuff.   I started in computers in the mainframe days and spent hours upon hours with EBCDIC and ASCII codes.    So while I don't remember all the codes I do know where to find them.












OKAY you twisted my arm, I'll tell.    The easiest way to cheat is to go to Word (or your favorite word process) and "Insert" a "symbol".    Scroll through them and you'll find most every conceivable juxtaposition of the alphabet you could imagine.  Create the "word" you want then copy/paste it to your posting.  Beats the 64 character, uppercase-only chain printers we used back in the "stone age".
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: Rastus on January 27, 2009, 01:01:42 PM
They are cheap! If I had an SKS, I'd probably put a Simmons scope on it!  ;D

And I thought I was radical rotating some of my scopes 90 degrees CCW to keep the windage adjustment clear my hand reaching for the bold and to access the mag well easier....
Title: Re: Rarely encountered "SNOWWIS" scope!
Post by: JohnZ on January 30, 2009, 06:02:15 PM
 ::) :D