Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

Technically, its not a gun show acquisition since I picked it up the day after the show. I stopped in at one of the better gun stores in town and since the GunPimp was busy with a customer I wandered around. No AR’s, a hlaf dozen PTR-91’s (which shows how foolish the crowds are…they should snap those babies up!), and my eye drifted over to the optics. Hey! Is that….? It looks like….! Why, yes it is! An IOR M2.

Who could resist? Not I. He had it for $299, we agreed to $275. This baby has illuminated reitcle, bullet drop compensator and takes abuse like a trailerpark housewife. I have the 10×56 IOR mounted on my dear CZ550 .308 and I have been quite pleased with these scopes. Outstanding values. Nothing fancy about ‘em. Theyre not military scopes that someone tries to pretty up to appeal to the sporting market. These things make no bones about themselves – they are military/tactical scopes through and through.

I’ll be dropping this on one of my flattop 20″ Bushies as soon as i figure out mounting options.

Ok, I *did* get something at the Kalispell show but I feel tremendously guilty about it. I might post about it in a few days. We’ll see. Don’t ask, i won’t tell you. It is, however, cool.