The Sniper Central web server will be down for hardware maintenance on 12 Apr 2008 at 22:00 MDT (GMT-6). The Server will be down for about an hour, give or take. Sorry for the downtime, but at least it is scheduled and not an emergency!
MEL
We have just started the next Falcon Menace 4.5-18×56mm Preorder for the April shipment. The next batch is expected to arrive here around April 21st, give or take a week. The pricing will remain the same, $385 plus shipping for non members and $375 for members. You can reserve your scope for a $10 deposit that is applied toward the purchase of the scope.
We have added some basic account administration ability to the SC membership accounts. Now, when you log into the membership area of the site, you will see a new link in the upper right hand corner for “Admin Your Account”. By clicking the link it will take you to your account page where it displays when your account will expire and your information. It also now allows you to change your password as well. This a starting point and more functionality will be added over time.
Over at military.com they have a nice little slide show of US Army Sniper School and a few other sniper pics. It is fairly interesting and probably worth the few minutes to watch.
http://images.military.com/slideshows/sniper.htm?ESRC=army.nl
MEL
SC was down for about an hour this morning (2/28/08). There was a memory problem which caused a server crash. There may be a few more shorter downtimes while the memory is tested and replaced. I apologize for any problems this may cause.
MEL
This past Saturday, 9 Feb 2008, I attended the funeral services of an old friend who passed away of natural causes last week. It was a nice ceremony at the church and then we headed out to the cemetery for the grave side services. Gordon server in the military, both National Guard and Active duty, back in the 1950’s & 1960’s and he was entitled to and received a military funeral. The local Missoula chapter of the VFW & Veterans group (I’m not sure of the exact title of the veterans group) performed the ceremony. It was a damp day with snow on the ground and I must commend these old veterans. They did an outstanding job with the ceremony. It was well rehearsed, well spoken, and very professional. I know that may not be the case everywhere, but this local chapter needs to be commended for a job well done with dignity and pride. Yes, there were slight mis-cues and mistakes, and perhaps everything was not perfect, but it was very inspiring none the less and to top it off, Taps was played beautifully without waver. Again, I just wanted to let everyone know these men are doing a great service and if you are in a position to participate and help out, please do so, as it is becoming increasingly difficult to find veterans to perform these services.
Well, we ordered as many of the 4-14×44 scopes as we could, and they still sold out very fast. But the really bad news is that Falcon has ran into a supply problem with the Reticles and the 4-14’s will not be available again until around May 2008. This is terrible news, but instead of going with a different, less quality provided, they are going to stick it out with their current supplier.
The 4.5-18×56’s are on schedule and should be here in mid February.
The new falcon Menace 4-14×44mm FFP scopes are now in stock and ready to sell and ship. You can order them here:
http://www.snipercentral.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=67
Also, we have the 10×42’s with ESLR and the 10×42 Metric with MP20 in stock as well. The 4.5-18×56mm scopes are still on back order but should be available again in 1-2 months.
I am not sure it ever went away, but I just now noticed that one of my favorite scopes, and what I consider one of the really good scope bargains out there, did not go away. I had thought that when Leupold did away with the PR series of mk4 scopes in 2007 and replaced them with the new Mk2 series, that the excellent PR 4.5-14×40mm scope was gone for good. But I just recently noticed (not sure what took me so long) that the scope actually is still alive and well, it has been renamed the Mk4 LR/T 4.5-14×40mm Target. The Target is indicates the standard tall target knobs on the scope (no M1 or M3 knobs). I have always liked the price point this scope is available at and the smaller 40mm objective. It really is a fine scope and I am glad to see it has survived!
We have some large OD Green drag bags available in the sniper store:
Tac-Ops Series 3 Drag Bag
We should have some smalls and other colors available soon.