GJgo
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Let me start by saying .
So I recently broke down my elk rifle to do some winter work & cleaning, and much to my dismay there is a small impression in the upper portion of the tube, both front & rear, where the top of the Warne rings drew in. The scope is a Swarovski 3-10. Now, I turn wrenches for a living & I'm pretty confident that I didn't "overtighten" it. (...but no, I didn't use a torque wrench.) Looking at the Warne design I'm wondering if there's just too much mechanical advantage in the top of this setup. Anyone else seen a similar issue?
One thing I did notice, according to my calipers the tube on the Swaro is a little smaller than the tube on my Zeiss that also uses the same rings on another rifle. Thus, as you can see in the photo above the tops of the rings are drawn in closer together than on the Zeiss, which kind of draws the "circle" into a "pinch" when you tighten the screws as the two faces go out of square. That pinch is exactly what the dent looks like, right there on the top of the tube.
I inspected inside of the tube with a flashlight & it looks like there is a corrugated sleeve in there which shows none of this, so I'm thinking this is just on the outer tube & hopefully it hasn't affected the scope. The glass looks fine so far as I can tell, and there aren't any accuracy issues that I've seen when shooting. If someone knows more about scope guts please chime in, do I need to send this thing back to the factory for repair or just mount it back up & let it ride? The scope has been mounted like this for a few years now & in that time has put plenty of game in the freezer as it sat.
I'll get a photo & measurement of the dent later & add it. IIRC it's just a couple thousandths.
So I recently broke down my elk rifle to do some winter work & cleaning, and much to my dismay there is a small impression in the upper portion of the tube, both front & rear, where the top of the Warne rings drew in. The scope is a Swarovski 3-10. Now, I turn wrenches for a living & I'm pretty confident that I didn't "overtighten" it. (...but no, I didn't use a torque wrench.) Looking at the Warne design I'm wondering if there's just too much mechanical advantage in the top of this setup. Anyone else seen a similar issue?
One thing I did notice, according to my calipers the tube on the Swaro is a little smaller than the tube on my Zeiss that also uses the same rings on another rifle. Thus, as you can see in the photo above the tops of the rings are drawn in closer together than on the Zeiss, which kind of draws the "circle" into a "pinch" when you tighten the screws as the two faces go out of square. That pinch is exactly what the dent looks like, right there on the top of the tube.
I inspected inside of the tube with a flashlight & it looks like there is a corrugated sleeve in there which shows none of this, so I'm thinking this is just on the outer tube & hopefully it hasn't affected the scope. The glass looks fine so far as I can tell, and there aren't any accuracy issues that I've seen when shooting. If someone knows more about scope guts please chime in, do I need to send this thing back to the factory for repair or just mount it back up & let it ride? The scope has been mounted like this for a few years now & in that time has put plenty of game in the freezer as it sat.
I'll get a photo & measurement of the dent later & add it. IIRC it's just a couple thousandths.