Posted: 4/7/2005 9:14:09 AM EDT
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Update: The scope is not doing nearly as well as I thought - I went to clean the rifle, and noticed the scope moving fore and aft on the mount. I could wiggle it side-to-side as well. This would seem a detriment to it's ability to hold zero. I found a main mounting screw underneath had gotten loose. After tightening it, I remounted the optic and still can move the unit very slightly side-to-side - any mounted optic has to be absolutely rigid on the upper for it to be expected to hold zero, and it should be able to take the impact of .338 Win-Mag, rough handling in the field, rain, snow, etc., without losing zero. This one was shifting after 400 rounds of .223 off a bench and offhand, all the while being handled like a newborn child. So I sent it back. They're sending me another; I won't even take it out of its package; it will go directly to ebay. The optics, glass, laser diode controls - all that stuff was absolutely top-notch, but the mounting system and windage/elevation controls were strictly third-world bullshit. Eotech, here I come! |