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I'm looking for some flip-open scope covers SIMILAR to the ones from Butler Creek except with 1 added feature- I want something that doesn't break so easily, and seemingly for no reason. I've lost count of how many I broke over the years. The US mil furnishes these things with all of the sniper scopes, and in training (and elsewhere) I broke more than a few. I used to find pieces of them on the ground as a student and later as an instructor on stalking lanes, and we kept a box of them on a team and in our supply cage as students got done with an exercise and showed up with half a scope cover. I still break them from time to time (like yesterday) and its not uncommon to find the cap part of one laying around the benches and on the firing lines at my range. This was also something that I always kept in the back of my mind as a potential major tactical problem, since these things could potentially be lost during real operations overseas, and later found by the enemy- thus compromising the presence of snipers in the area, and their routes and firing positions. For obvious reasons, no one- especially snipers and anyone doing recon/surveillance type missions- should leave anything on the battlefield that would alert the enemy to their presence and potentially provide them with any intel. Even if the sniper knows the thing broke during infil or exfil, he may be unable to find it in the dark. Even though I'm not involved in that type of work any more, I still would like gear that isn't always breaking and needing to get replaced. So is there anything out there that doesn't suck?
