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Help!! After 13 years of shooting and hunting, it finally happened to me too. Scope misteriously sliding in the rings
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<blockquote data-quote="simone" data-source="post: 2900045" data-attributes="member: 103268"><p>Hi everyone. I recently bought a new 308 rifle and i was in the process of finding the right factory ammo for it. I just shoot 80 bullets through it and it looks pretty promising: every factory ammo i put in it is around MOA and never more than 1.5 MOA, with a couple ammo (geco teilmantel, rws DK) shooting way under MOA (0.6 for geco, 0.8 for RWS). I still have a couple ammo to try out looking for a more aerodynamic bullet for relatively long range hunting: 165 gr SST and maybe a couple others like 165 gr accubonds and 180 gr bondstrike). That said, i came home and i found the scope a couple inches back. I checked with the torque wrench and they actually came loose because the torque wrench didn't snap until the scews had a little additional turn. That's why at the range i had to stretch my neck <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p><p>I always torque everything to spec with a quality torque wrench and i torqued rings (high quality tier one aluminium rings) at 18 in/lbs (because the nightforce on top of them is recommended to be torqued like that). I didn't put loctite just because i will soon put an aftermarket stock on the rifle so, if the lenght of pull won't be exactly the same, i will have to move the scope a bit. Even without locktite rings torqued to specs shouldn't let the scope slide like this. I also checked the action screws and they loosen up, too, even if torqued to specs. I am starting thinking my torque wrench got out of spec (it's 4 years since i have it and I never had it checked but i didn't use it much at all).</p><p>I am ****ed off cause i wasted 200 euros worth of ammo but the accuracy was not bad even with this issue (i even got a 0.28 MOA 3 shot group at 100 meters with geco ammo) so maybe the accuracy will improve just fixing this. I noticed some vertical stringing in some groups, very thight orizzontally. Could this be related to the scope moving back from one shot to the other? I attached some groups with apparently 2 different groups inside of them without any change in zero from the turrets. If this could be a reason for this weird looking groups it would mean i would have to try all those ammo again! I don't remember the order of the shots, this could have been useful. Does these groups look suspiciously weird to you as far as distribution of impacts?</p><p>Also if my tlrque wrench will be in spec after i make it checked, why action screws and rings screws went loose after just 80 rounds (action screws after just 50 actually)?</p><p></p><p>Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="simone, post: 2900045, member: 103268"] Hi everyone. I recently bought a new 308 rifle and i was in the process of finding the right factory ammo for it. I just shoot 80 bullets through it and it looks pretty promising: every factory ammo i put in it is around MOA and never more than 1.5 MOA, with a couple ammo (geco teilmantel, rws DK) shooting way under MOA (0.6 for geco, 0.8 for RWS). I still have a couple ammo to try out looking for a more aerodynamic bullet for relatively long range hunting: 165 gr SST and maybe a couple others like 165 gr accubonds and 180 gr bondstrike). That said, i came home and i found the scope a couple inches back. I checked with the torque wrench and they actually came loose because the torque wrench didn't snap until the scews had a little additional turn. That's why at the range i had to stretch my neck 😂 I always torque everything to spec with a quality torque wrench and i torqued rings (high quality tier one aluminium rings) at 18 in/lbs (because the nightforce on top of them is recommended to be torqued like that). I didn't put loctite just because i will soon put an aftermarket stock on the rifle so, if the lenght of pull won't be exactly the same, i will have to move the scope a bit. Even without locktite rings torqued to specs shouldn’t let the scope slide like this. I also checked the action screws and they loosen up, too, even if torqued to specs. I am starting thinking my torque wrench got out of spec (it's 4 years since i have it and I never had it checked but i didn't use it much at all). I am ****ed off cause i wasted 200 euros worth of ammo but the accuracy was not bad even with this issue (i even got a 0.28 MOA 3 shot group at 100 meters with geco ammo) so maybe the accuracy will improve just fixing this. I noticed some vertical stringing in some groups, very thight orizzontally. Could this be related to the scope moving back from one shot to the other? I attached some groups with apparently 2 different groups inside of them without any change in zero from the turrets. If this could be a reason for this weird looking groups it would mean i would have to try all those ammo again! I don't remember the order of the shots, this could have been useful. Does these groups look suspiciously weird to you as far as distribution of impacts? Also if my tlrque wrench will be in spec after i make it checked, why action screws and rings screws went loose after just 80 rounds (action screws after just 50 actually)? Thanks! [/QUOTE]
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