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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kabsetz" data-source="post: 1774468" data-attributes="member: 10167">Mark,Thanks for using your enthusiasm to try to bring the light to more converts. I've continued to be surprised that the idea has not caught on faster, and disappointed that scope makers have not picked it up and applied the principle into a more elegant, integrated solution or a "custom" accessory for which they'd charge a well-deserved $30-60 from those of us unwilling to spend the pennies to utilize a cable tie.When I first wrote about it in Alula and then in Birding (December 1998) I thought that would be enough to spread the practice. I also had the opportunity to show it to Swarovski engineers when the ATS 80 was launched, and had some hopes about Zeiss doing something with the idea when Ingraham (who had been the "tools of the trade" editor at Birdign when I wrote the English language article) went to Zeiss. and When that did not work, I thought the Internet would do the trick and we collaborated with Ronald on the original BF thread for which he wrote the illustrations. But maybe it takes an American marketing talent to spread this best practice.And yes, I will get myself some of those releasable cable ties. Don't need them on my own scope where the sight is around the scope body and protrudes through a custom-cut hole in the stay-on-case, but they will come handy whenever I have a loaner scope for testing.I rather like the zeal and exuberance of your sermon, and as we converts know, it is not all that exaggerated, but I could not help thinking that perhaps you could edit it a bit and make it a tad more condensed and thus easier to read? Just a thought...Kimmo</blockquote>

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