My scope died today......

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Ive had a $100 Bushnell Banner fail on the first shot, canted reticle. Im pretty handy, so I took it apart to see if I could fix it myself- the internal parts were such cheap garbage plastic, I got disgusted and threw it away. Chicom junk.........

Lesson learned. Im currently staring out the window waiting for my new Nightforce to arrive. :D
Have you suggested to them to make a special Nightlord40K model? The Nightforce Nightlord has a pleasing ring.
 
Bushnell seems hit and miss - mostly miss for me. I've had one on a 22 leveraction for years and it's been fine, of course. I got a pistol scope for a good price when bass pro closed, put it on a 9" 44 magnum and I didn't get it zeroed before there was no more zero - I tossed it out, lesson learned. I've got a bushnell banner 6-9x that's been hanging around a few years and I mounted it on a 77/357 I recently bought and I figure I'll leave it on for load development and then take it off - we'll see if it survives.
 
Bushnell seems hit and miss - mostly miss for me. I've had one on a 22 leveraction for years and it's been fine, of course. I got a pistol scope for a good price when bass pro closed, put it on a 9" 44 magnum and I didn't get it zeroed before there was no more zero - I tossed it out, lesson learned. I've got a bushnell banner 6-9x that's been hanging around a few years and I mounted it on a 77/357 I recently bought and I figure I'll leave it on for load development and then take it off - we'll see if it survives.
yeah, If they last past the first range session they have been pretty good for me, but Ive had a couple bad ones.
 
Well what's the punch line? How is this corrected? Is it a problem with the piece bolted to rifle, or is something wrong with rifle where the rail mounts?

Thanks,

Russellc
Sorry that was a little short on information.

The front screws twist the rail when tightened, so the easiest solution is to simply bed the rail to the receiver with only enough tension on the front screws to keep the holes aligned.

Ive actually found it fairly common for bases to not be level, which is why i usually check and bed my scope bases. Not sure how I forgot to do this one, but i did.
 
So, it was the rail that was deformed, not the screw holes in the receiver? Or rail fine, screw holes/receiver defective?

Thanks,

Russellc
 
So, it was the rail that was deformed, not the screw holes in the receiver? Or rail fine, screw holes/receiver defective?

Thanks,

Russellc
The rail was fine as far as i could tell, but i cant accurately measure/check the curvature of the front bridge contact area. Im guessing the screw holes were very slightly off center, or canted.
 
Nuts. Something else to worry about! Both of the two I have put mount/rails on I believe we're OK. Perfectly flat fit.

The instructions talked about instances where one end or the other wouldn't both be flat. There solution was to bed it in that jb weld stuff in a tube, with some kind of wax on metal to prevent rail from being impossible to remove.

I have never heard of this twisted thing. Thanks for the replies, much appreciated!

Russellc
 
Nuts. Something else to worry about! Both of the two I have put mount/rails on I believe we're OK. Perfectly flat fit.

The instructions talked about instances where one end or the other wouldn't both be flat. There solution was to bed it in that jb weld stuff in a tube, with some kind of wax on metal to prevent rail from being impossible to remove.

I have never heard of this twisted thing. Thanks for the replies, much appreciated!

Russellc
No problem

Thats basically how you fix the issue short of major machine work.

Ive had a couple that were WAY off, this one wasnt really that bad. It didnt point the scope in a completely different direction than the barrel, and had i not been messing with scopes i likely wouldnt have noticed it.

Its worth checking tho, and if your buying a new rifle ask to borrow a piece of paper and check that all the screw hole edges align before selecting that particular rifle.
If its already got a rail, you can look down the rail with the muzzle centered and see if it looks "off"
 
Update!

The replacement scope came in from bushnell today. It looks a little different.
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Dont know if someone stuck the wrong scope in the box, or if they are simply out of the 5-20s, but either way im not gonna complain i guess lol.

Turn around was actually faster than it seems. They got the old one and shipped the new one in less than a week, but the replacement got sent fedex sure post, which can literally take a month to go from the west coast to hawaii. this one only took an extra week, which is pretty good.

Not sure what gun im gonna out it on now tho......
 
With some consideration as to what I am buying! I usually go with the old saying about you get what you pay for,. So I usually think! Buy once, cry once; buy cheap, keep on crying ! :( Not meant to be a put down to anyone!
To each their own :)
 
With some consideration as to what I am buying! I usually go with the old saying about you get what you pay for,. So I usually think! Buy once, cry once; buy cheap, keep on crying ! :( Not meant to be a put down to anyone!
To each their own :)

In general,that quote is usually correct. But even high $$$$ scopes can have issues. I recently bought a Steiner T5xi scope and didn't notice it had a focusing problem when I sighted it in here at the house. I just used a white sheet of paper with an orange sticky dot that was stapled to a white backing board. It looked OK to me,but when I went to the range and tried to look at my precision grid style targets I couldn't get the parallax focused. All the grid lines and bullseye were blurry no matter how much I tried to focus them with the side focus knob.

So,I had to box up a brand new $2k+ scope and ship it back to Steiner for repair,and they don't even pay to ship it back,so I'm out close to $71 for shipping/insurance fees.
 
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