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The GPO Evolve 8x 1-8x24 - a new scope on the block

There would be more than a few readers of this page who, like me, have had close calls with vision impairment. I have always been a safety glasses nut whether shooting, riding motorbikes or using tools. What you can’t shield against though is age and I had a fast onset of cataracts in the left eye which within six months rendered me blind in that eye and with cataracts growing in the right eye, it was panic stations!

Modern technology and top-tier health funds are wonderful things and when you lift the bandages post-op, you have a renewed respect for what 20/20 vision means and how close you just came to being house-bound.

For 30 years I have always had good camera lenses; I would spend double the dollars

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