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<blockquote data-quote="Dalbo" data-source="post: 225157" data-attributes="member: 12525"><div style="text-align: left">Hey there I'm new to this site and long range shooting. I just purchased a Weatherby Vanguard in 257 Weatherby Mag for $389. I know the old addage, "you get what you pay for", but I mounted an inexpensive BSA 4-16x40 mil-dot scope on it. My reasoning being as a college student working as an intern at the AZ Game and Fish Dept. I don't make a bunch of money. Also I did not want to spend 3-4 hundred dollars on a mil-dot scope and find out I didn't like it.</div> <div style="text-align: left"></div> <div style="text-align: left">I took it to the range yesterday and the gun shot great, ave group size was just under an inch at 100 yds. The problem was the scope would not track properly when I adjusted my windage and elevation (1/8 clicks). My first group was 1" left of POA(point of aim), I adjusted 8 clicks right and it shot into the same spot. I added another 8 clicks right and it shot 2" right of POA. I repeated this process a few more times but could not get my shots to settle on target before the range closed.</div> <div style="text-align: left"></div> <div style="text-align: left">Once I got home I backed off the set screws from the turrets and set them to the zero positions and retightened the screws. From there I adjusted the windage and elevation 1moa at a time. Up and right to 5moa then down and left 5moa. I did this in the hopes that the internals would loosen up, and would not stick anymore. I still need to head back to the range and determine if this helped at all. Have any of you had similar problems or had any luck getting a scope to become "unsticky"? I hope to get this sorted out before my Kaibab deer hunt in October. </div> <div style="text-align: left"></div> <div style="text-align: left">Thanks for your help,</div> <div style="text-align: left"></div> <div style="text-align: left">Dave gun)</div></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dalbo, post: 225157, member: 12525"] [LEFT]Hey there I'm new to this site and long range shooting. I just purchased a Weatherby Vanguard in 257 Weatherby Mag for $389. I know the old addage, "you get what you pay for", but I mounted an inexpensive BSA 4-16x40 mil-dot scope on it. My reasoning being as a college student working as an intern at the AZ Game and Fish Dept. I don't make a bunch of money. Also I did not want to spend 3-4 hundred dollars on a mil-dot scope and find out I didn't like it. I took it to the range yesterday and the gun shot great, ave group size was just under an inch at 100 yds. The problem was the scope would not track properly when I adjusted my windage and elevation (1/8 clicks). My first group was 1" left of POA(point of aim), I adjusted 8 clicks right and it shot into the same spot. I added another 8 clicks right and it shot 2" right of POA. I repeated this process a few more times but could not get my shots to settle on target before the range closed. Once I got home I backed off the set screws from the turrets and set them to the zero positions and retightened the screws. From there I adjusted the windage and elevation 1moa at a time. Up and right to 5moa then down and left 5moa. I did this in the hopes that the internals would loosen up, and would not stick anymore. I still need to head back to the range and determine if this helped at all. Have any of you had similar problems or had any luck getting a scope to become "unsticky"? I hope to get this sorted out before my Kaibab deer hunt in October. Thanks for your help, Dave gun)[/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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