With the availability of perfectly good scopes from Owon, Rigol, and others in the $300 range means older scopes can only sell for so much. Granted, if you actually need a scope with 5 GHz ...

[Christer Weinigel] has just such an entry-level modern digital ‘scope, an OWON SDS7102. He comments that it’s got an impressive spec for its price, though the input is noisier than you’d ...

Let’s get this out of the way: $500 is a lot of money to spend on a rifle scope, and for some readers (and optics testers) it stretches the definition of a “budget” scope. That’s a fair perspective, ...

Learn more › We conducted a test to discover the best scope for a .30-30 rifle. This might seem odd when it seems all anyone wants to do is shoot their 6.5 Creedmoor at 1,000 yards. But the ...

Rifle scope designs follow trends in the rifles that they’ll be paired with. The 3-9×42 scope, one of the best all-around hunting optics mounted on generations of bolt-action rifles, held sway until ...

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John Thomas Scopes came to Tennessee fresh out of college. In the spring of 1925, he had just completed his first year as science teacher and part-time football coach at the high school in the ...

Unlike compound bows, spotting scope manufacturers don’t release a new flagship model each year. In fact, many optic companies will go years between developing a new spotter. That’s why ...

The M151 Improved Spotting Scope allows recognition and identification of targets at long distances for U.S. troops executing precision ground engagements. A light and compact scope with powerful ...

But one thing the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925 did not do was settle the contentious issue of evolution in the schools, which continues to incite strong passions and court actions to this day.

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Roughly a century ago, the trial of John T. Scopes marked a flash point in an American culture war—between religious faith and science—that has been waged, in one form or another, to this day.