Warning on new Leupold scopes

[Flbt]

Religious exemption is not absolute in the United States. Never has been, never will be.

Children dying because of their parent's stupidity is a tragedy that we can help prevent.

Not your place.

 

[deewayne2003]

@Andrew NOLA

Just opened up my new in box VX5HD CDS-ZL2 and guess what it doesn’t have on the battery compartment?

 

[JimP]

@Andrew NOLA

Just opened up my new in box VX5HD CDS-ZL2 and guess what it doesn’t have on the battery compartment?
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It's possibly a new old stock, I would imagine that there are a number of them out there sitting in warehouses that don't have the newer caps that people will get until that stock is depleted.

 

[CJNJ]

It's important that our cars warn us if the car thinks we are not paying attention.
It's important that we have plastic gas cans that are impossible to pour without spilling, to protect the environment.
I love that my Ruger has an ugly warning on the barrel telling me to read the instructions.
It's fun to try to open something packaged in plastic requiring a knife or small saw.
I don't know how I survived as a child drinking out of a hose, riding a bike without a helmet and shooting a BB gun.

 

[Bullthrower338]

There are lots of really fine scopes that don't use batteries.

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You dumb son of a bitch, how many children have you just killed! Maybe retarded ass kids that eat fuckin batteries are doing the world a favor! I ate dirt and probably lead paint but I’ve never given a baby a expensive rifle with a VX-5 or 6 on it and said, I bet you can’t get that battery out and eat it you little bastard! Most of of us supervise our children much better than that!

 

[deewayne2003]

It's possibly a new old stock, I would imagine that there are a number of them out there sitting in warehouses that don't have the newer caps that people will get until that stock is depleted.

It may be but I don’t care one bit, I just find it ironic!…. Looks like I won’t have to carry around another tool when I leave the country!

 

[M70375!]

Nanny state..... in the extreme. Lunacy. When was the last time you let your grandkids play with your rifle scopes?

right on, totally ridiculous

 

[CoElkHunter]

you have not lived untill you have spread cow shit on a very windy morning, useing a old john deere tractor with a hand clutch. my two brothers and i had brown care hart looking coats. we milked 100 cows by hand then i was 11 years old. farm work was very hard then with not much money in it.

Has me thinking. How many ADULT members here could milk 100 cows by hand? Bet not many.

 

[steve white]

A pair of pliers wouldn't work in a pinch? Reminds me of the people "stuck" when the escalator stopped, lol. Uh, they ARE stairs...
Bet I could make a tool with nothing but a piece of wood and a Swiss army knife.

That said, "The Most Canadian Man In The World" would have no problem observing such precautions.

 

[Beck]

Kids are not swallowing batteries....but infants learning to crawl and crawling are.

This is not about guns. This is not about optics. The big picture is about protecting infants from batteries.

Leupold is trying to do their part. I commend them and will live with the inconvenience.

Couldn't agree more, I'll deal with whatever inconvenience it causes to save the life of a child.....

 

[CoElkHunter]

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Now your scaring me with this opened PLASTIC package and now loose battery photo. Hope the moderators don’t see it. LOL

 

[CoElkHunter]

A pair of pliers wouldn't work in a pinch? Reminds me of the people "stuck" when the escalator stopped, lol. Uh, they ARE stairs...
Bet I could make a tool with nothing but a piece of wood and a Swiss army knife.

That said, "The Most Canadian Man In The World" would have no problem observing such precautions.

Oh, the morons would still be stuck on non working escalators if their cell phones can’t get a signal to instruct them what to do. LOL

 

[Boone66]

The CR2032 battery is in virtually every automobile remote key fob. Somehow the automobile manufacturers don't seem overly concerned, there must be something behind this regarding Leupold's actions.

In a lot of things, from scopes, tools, to toys. People keep the extra batteries laying around in drawers, next to all the other batteries. Not to mention all the other small batteries around. This is just nuts, to put a child lock on a scope.

 

[Boone66]

Would using the back of a closed pocket knife work? I use mine like that, for lots of things.

 

[Sabre]

Energizer puts a bitter coating on the batteries, has them individually wrapped and then some button batteries (maybe all at this point) have another sealed plastic "shield" around them inside the original package, and then they also have a blue dye on the negative side that releases with moisture to stain the child's tongue.

The "if it saves one child" argument is the dumbest argument in history that no one really believes/means and is completely disingenuous when used as an argument. If people really believed that and did everything to maximize saving child lives, the first thing to be completely banned would be alcohol. But a good majority of people drink, and prohibition failed because people aren't even willing to give up booze to save a shit load of child lives, let alone "just one child's life".

Either way, the new packaging with the second "shield" sealed plastic coating around each battery is extremely difficult to open in the field. The plastic is really tight to the battery and you are fairly likely to cut yourself or cut and damage the battery getting it open.

It's fairly obnoxious to open even at home with choice of knives and scissors at your disposal. Not that anyone would look into this, but I'd bet it will end up with 100X more people in ER/ED getting stitches from a slipped knife than lives it will save.

 

[leslie hetrick]

Has me thinking. How many ADULT members here could milk 100 cows by hand? Bet not many.

to be truthful, my father and two brothers and i milked thoses cows. there never seemed to be a day off, and it was a job. after my service i never went back to farm work and was not sorry when my father sold it.

 

[Velo Dog]

I agree, knife or scissors. But down here in the lower 48 in so cutting the packaging you only release one battery at a time.....

But I'm told Alaskans are tougher and so are your kids so no worry of choking hazard....I mean come on you live amongst grizzlies and moose! My wife sees a mouse and runs for cover!

Interesting.