What have frying pans and rifle scopes got in common?
- Price: $20 AUD
- Location: VIC
- Listed on: ssaagunsales.com
Seller Type: Private User Licence # 431-725-90B Location: ESSENDON NORTH, VIC, 3041 Phone #: *** click to reveal *** Description: Answer: BLACK BS Most frypans now come with a dark 'non-stick' surface. It has a name sometimes applied to slippery politicians but Samuel B. Mann thinks it's about as useful as 'constantly centred reticles'. It may let eggs slide around for a while but soon needs oil. If you don't use enough oil it's hard to clean the crap off - and you can't use steel wool because that would wreck the surface. Eventually, nothing will keep it clean. Then it starts to bubble and crack, at which point (if not before) it is thought to release PFAS chemicals provably deleterious to your health. In the wash-up, it's inferior to stainless-steel, which can be scrubbed with impunity and usually for less time. SO, WHAT'S THAT GOT IN COMMON WITH SCOPES? The darkness . . . think the black surrounding of scope tunnel-vision, real and metaphorical. Because modern erector tubes transmit reflections if not aligned with the scope's longitudinal axis, their makers have long added heavy field stops to mask the flare. This, with the now-pervasive rubber eyepiece, often leaves you looking into a relatively small field of view surrounded by a black donut. There has always been some loss to field stops beyond that from magnification but it could be as little as six inches (150mm) each side at 100 yards in the case of that old B. Nickel Supralyt 1x12 on the book's back cover, shown her...
