[Wavytone]

Les the real trouble starts when you've just bought what you think was right... and then a dream scope turns up secondhand that forces a complete rethink.

I've done this twice.

Once last year after selling al my gear I talked myself into a nice APO setup after seeing someone else's. It had barely arrived when someone offered a perfect 7" mak secondhand which easily slayed the APO and any 8" SCT on everything you pointed it at.

A year later having just got all that sorted, a dream scope turned up... a Santel MK91. I knew of this scope but never dreamed the owner would part with it. The prices of a new Russian 9" mak were eye-watering, never mind the delivery time as they were built to order and in 2016 production ceased.

Anyhow... now the owner of a Russian Tank I have decided to part with everything else to fund a new mount and eyepieces... once I decide which ones.