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Having used Butler Creek covers for the past twenty years or more, I've finally come to the point where I'm fed-up of these falling to pieces or breaking on me. The final straw a brand new Flip-up Objective cap separating from it's mounting collar on me last week on the range.

So far I'm aware of the following:

• I have tried Vortex branded caps (actually just branded Bushwhacker caps) - not impressed.
• March - need to investigate these.
• Aadmount - look good but not easily available here/expensive, limited range.
• Tenebraex - as Aadmount.
• Swarovski - expensive, only fit their scopes.

What other quality flip-up caps are available, where can they be obtained?

I need: sizes - need 50mm and 56mm objectives and various eye pieces for Vortex, Swarovski, S&B & Minox.

I bought Butler Creek, and before I even got the rifle to the range the flip up on the front aperture split at the hinge :(

Not good :(

I gave up with the new butlers , my friend who used to be in the injection moulding business looked at them and rates the new ones as very poorly made ! wrong temp and wrong plastic or something like that?

another front failed on me during a week at the hinds , I put Schmidt's original covers on and cable tied it to the scope , it's staying like that until somebody , anybody , makes something better ?

my PM2 has tenebrex on but they are clunky and I have to take the scope off to unthread them.

I compared 20+yo Buler Creaks on my 8x56 & 6x42 S&B scopes over the weekend with the modern offerings, and the plastic is quite different and the moulding quality not so good.

The Vortex (re-branded Bushwhackers) I have are fairly well made, but neither the rubber collars or the caps themselves fit very well which is a shame.

I'm hopeful of the Aadmount range when I can finally get a set to try, but at $99/pr they'd need to be pretty damned good.

So, back to my original question, can anyone come up with some decent quality alternatives - must be flip-up type?

I have had a set of Butlers on my PMII for many years with no issues so quality must of changed somewhere along the line. I have Tenebraex as well and find myself being a lot more careful with them because they cost so much... Go figure!

The Leupold Aluminas seem to get good reviews but you would probably have to get a thread adapter made up to fit your scopes (unless you are lucky and they use a common thread rating)
http://www.leupold.com/hunting-shooting ... over-50mm/

Wonder if some anodized alu caps replacing the bad quality butlers would work...?

If only we knew someone that could manufacture something like that....

Best quality scope caps are leather ones!

Flip-up versions....mmm, now there's an idea....

ovenpaa wrote:I have had a set of Butlers on my PMII for many years with no issues so quality must of changed somewhere along the line. I have Tenebraex as well and find myself being a lot more careful with them because they cost so much... Go figure!

Exactly my point - the 1990s Butler Creeks are excellent, whereas the current ones seem very brittle.

saddler wrote:Best quality scope caps are leather ones!

Flip-up versions....mmm, now there's an idea....

I have nice custom-made leather caps for both of my stalking scopes, but to be honest they afford less protection than the flip-ups IMO.

The best caps I have yet seen are the (presumably) aluminium ones offered by Swarovski, but only for certain specific models of their own range and around £130/pr.

I use Swarovski binocular lens covers on all my scopes. Just get the same size as your scope and your set, no noisy "click" when you open them. Swarovski will send you a set foc if you give them a call.