Originally Posted By: NdIndyOriginally Posted By: msincMaybe it is the scope. I am not familiar with this brand but if it's right up there with Leapers...well, maybe. I've been at this for a pretty good while now and in almost 40 years of messing around with guns I have only seen 2 factual, for certain bad scopes that wouldn't hold zero. Even the cheap ones that disintegrated in my hands {BSA, Leapers} still held zero. They were junk and I tried to tell the owners, but when it comes to believing you are saving some money...Maybe I have just been lucky, but I doubt it.
I have seen plenty of loose rings and bases, plenty of loose actions in stocks, my share of fouled barrels, even a few bad barrels, many a shooter that just couldn't shoot, but the actual scope itself is way down the list. Yet it is always the first thing people say is bad. Kind of like when I worked on cars..."it's the coil" I have seen 2 bad ignition coils in my entire life...or when you have a strange electrical problem on a vehicle, "it's a bad ground." People just have to repeat what they hear. By the way, did I mention I saw a black panther the other day...yep, it screamed just like a woman!!!!!
There's a 3rd for you
It started life brand new and mounted on a 30-06, it lasted 2 seasons before it developed what I call a wandering zero. It would group fine, then it would group fine 2" high and 2" right. Then it would group fine another 2" high and 2" left.
Then I would re zero and it would group fine before repeating.
So it went onto progressively lighter calibers until I took it squirrel hunting on a 10/22 when it finally failed entirely. And I needed SOMETHING to make sure my irons were on...
Tasco "world class", which they had improved quality dramatically, guy at cabellas sold me on before I knew better. I still have the scope, plan on keeping it forever!
I wont count that one as a third...scopes that fall into a meat grinder don't count!!!!! Seriously dude...whiskey tango foxtrot on that thing???? Did it make you mad after the fact or what???