Vang said he started walking away and saw the man with the rifle take
it off his shoulder. Vang said he looked back again, when he was about
100 feet from the group, and the armed man was pointing the rifle at
him.

Then, Vang said, he dropped to a a crouch position and the man fired a
shot at him, hitting the ground 30 to 40 feet behind Vang.

Vang said he took off the scope of his SKS semi-automatic rifle and
fired two shots at the armed man, who dropped.


I'm not a hunter, but this last sentence in Vang's statement seems a bit
incredible to me. If, in fact, you were being fired upon at relatively
close range without benefit of cover, and feared for your life, would you
really take the time to remove the scope from your rifle before returning
fire? I don't believe I would, unless there's some reason that the scope
would prevent successfully returning fire that I'm not aware of. To me,
this part of Vang's statement brings serious doubt to his claim of being
fired upon first.

The scopes I've seen mounted on Chinese made SKS can come off in about two
seconds...push in lock release, twist scope off rifle (clockwise when
looking down from above)... Yes, you would have to remove it to use the iron
sights on the rifle because the scope mount does not allow "peep-through."
Iron sights are VERY easily used for short and medium distance because of
the "unlimited" (more unhindered) field of vision. Scopes are good for long
distance but have a very narrow field of vision -- difficult to aim at close
objects.

"RG" wrote in message
news:kT4pd.157542$G15.63881@fed1read03...

Vang said he started walking away and saw the man with the rifle take
it off his shoulder. Vang said he looked back again, when he was about
100 feet from the group, and the armed man was pointing the rifle at
him.

Then, Vang said, he dropped to a a crouch position and the man fired a
shot at him, hitting the ground 30 to 40 feet behind Vang.

Vang said he took off the scope of his SKS semi-automatic rifle and
fired two shots at the armed man, who dropped.


I'm not a hunter, but this last sentence in Vang's statement seems a bit
incredible to me. If, in fact, you were being fired upon at relatively
close range without benefit of cover, and feared for your life, would you
really take the time to remove the scope from your rifle before returning
fire? I don't believe I would, unless there's some reason that the scope
would prevent successfully returning fire that I'm not aware of. To me,
this part of Vang's statement brings serious doubt to his claim of being
fired upon first.