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Long Range Scopes and Other Optics
Leupold VariX-III 6.5-20x50 Mil-Dot Reticle, Side Focus, Matte Finish, Long Range, 30
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<blockquote data-quote="ae_ted" data-source="post: 16947" data-attributes="member: 1621"><p>thanks. the scope had been mounted on another rifle of my friends. i used to manage a large sporting goods store many yrs ago for a period of 15 yrs and have mounted literly 1000's of scopes. but this leupold is a model im not familiar with and very well may have had some sort of lock on it or it may have been bad. i ask the owner about the large shift in eye relief and he said it was common to shift 3 or 4 inches. hehe glad he satisfied whith that "performance" as it wold drive me nutts. finding a bad scope could not suprise me. thats way my luck goes. im used to it. once bought a new sako varmit .222 and zeiss 10x and sako fac. rings to put it on. decided that for a $1500 outfit i shold buy some "store bought" ammo and bought 2 boxes of fac. ammo. set it all up and went to range. shot at 100yds and not even hit the target. mumbled to myself and checked everything again and shot soem more....nouthing. grumbling and not feeling to "hot" about my new outfit i went to a nearby competer and sheepishly ask him to bore shight the rig for me . back to range and STILL NOUTHING. by now i was using not to nice language and moved target to 25yds and finally hit the target..bad news the bullets were KEYHOLING. i was really sick of my new outfit now and was about to go through the 2 boxes of fac. ammo. reached for my reloads and started aagain..everything worked as it should. back to 100yds and .5 groups no probs at all. what are chances to get bad fac. ammo and go to range with new outfit...hahahaha thats me!!! sent the remander(3 or 4 rounds) of fac. ammo to fac. and they gave me 4 boxes new ammo and it shot fine. just a fluke i guess. never did exactly figure what was wrong with that ammo but i suspect wwrong dia bullets. oh well could be same with that scope iv never seen any scope of any type vary THAT MUCH on eye relief. i was wanting to know about this as im in market for new scop of that type and wanted to know if that was common for this scope. if so i want no part of one hehe thanks for input!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ae_ted, post: 16947, member: 1621"] thanks. the scope had been mounted on another rifle of my friends. i used to manage a large sporting goods store many yrs ago for a period of 15 yrs and have mounted literly 1000's of scopes. but this leupold is a model im not familiar with and very well may have had some sort of lock on it or it may have been bad. i ask the owner about the large shift in eye relief and he said it was common to shift 3 or 4 inches. hehe glad he satisfied whith that "performance" as it wold drive me nutts. finding a bad scope could not suprise me. thats way my luck goes. im used to it. once bought a new sako varmit .222 and zeiss 10x and sako fac. rings to put it on. decided that for a $1500 outfit i shold buy some "store bought" ammo and bought 2 boxes of fac. ammo. set it all up and went to range. shot at 100yds and not even hit the target. mumbled to myself and checked everything again and shot soem more....nouthing. grumbling and not feeling to "hot" about my new outfit i went to a nearby competer and sheepishly ask him to bore shight the rig for me . back to range and STILL NOUTHING. by now i was using not to nice language and moved target to 25yds and finally hit the target..bad news the bullets were KEYHOLING. i was really sick of my new outfit now and was about to go through the 2 boxes of fac. ammo. reached for my reloads and started aagain..everything worked as it should. back to 100yds and .5 groups no probs at all. what are chances to get bad fac. ammo and go to range with new outfit...hahahaha thats me!!! sent the remander(3 or 4 rounds) of fac. ammo to fac. and they gave me 4 boxes new ammo and it shot fine. just a fluke i guess. never did exactly figure what was wrong with that ammo but i suspect wwrong dia bullets. oh well could be same with that scope iv never seen any scope of any type vary THAT MUCH on eye relief. i was wanting to know about this as im in market for new scop of that type and wanted to know if that was common for this scope. if so i want no part of one hehe thanks for input!!! [/QUOTE]
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