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<blockquote data-quote="cfvickers" data-source="post: 412767" data-attributes="member: 25488"><p>I have one gun that is hard on scopes. But I am not bs'n either. I have been around enough guns in my life that the failures I have seen are still very uncommon even to me. Just was raised around a lot of shooters and during my teenage years I hung out two to three nights a week with my dad and a very well regarded gunsmith and my dad had a gun shop and sold and returned a lot of scopes from 1996-2004. So if it can fail, I have probably seen it. they weren't all mine. The only scopes I have had fail on me were the 4 on the 45-70 and one on my 300 win mag, and that was an Elite 4200 and was a manufacturer defect, but the scope failed so I count it. The 45-70 has ranged like I said from broken reticles, to scopes falling apart and one cracked lense. Burris scopes in my experience are notorious for broken reticles, Tascos lose their seal, bushnell sport views last forever but aren't all that clear. Sightrons have a life time warranty that you will never need. Bushnell/Bausch&Lomb Elite series suffer a defect from time to time, the adjustment screw sometimes doesn't have a stop that you can detect and this can cause the reticle to detach from the screw/turret. making further adjustment impossible. I am not talking out of my butt, just didn't realize I needed to explain my background. The Swarovski by the way just fell apart, but it may have suffered a blow of some sort, it was on my nephews gun and he is a screw up. We just couldn't prove it. Kid didn't realize he had 1100.00 worth of glass on his gun, and my dad put it on there because he thought it would be pretty much indestructible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cfvickers, post: 412767, member: 25488"] I have one gun that is hard on scopes. But I am not bs'n either. I have been around enough guns in my life that the failures I have seen are still very uncommon even to me. Just was raised around a lot of shooters and during my teenage years I hung out two to three nights a week with my dad and a very well regarded gunsmith and my dad had a gun shop and sold and returned a lot of scopes from 1996-2004. So if it can fail, I have probably seen it. they weren't all mine. The only scopes I have had fail on me were the 4 on the 45-70 and one on my 300 win mag, and that was an Elite 4200 and was a manufacturer defect, but the scope failed so I count it. The 45-70 has ranged like I said from broken reticles, to scopes falling apart and one cracked lense. Burris scopes in my experience are notorious for broken reticles, Tascos lose their seal, bushnell sport views last forever but aren't all that clear. Sightrons have a life time warranty that you will never need. Bushnell/Bausch&Lomb Elite series suffer a defect from time to time, the adjustment screw sometimes doesn't have a stop that you can detect and this can cause the reticle to detach from the screw/turret. making further adjustment impossible. I am not talking out of my butt, just didn't realize I needed to explain my background. The Swarovski by the way just fell apart, but it may have suffered a blow of some sort, it was on my nephews gun and he is a screw up. We just couldn't prove it. Kid didn't realize he had 1100.00 worth of glass on his gun, and my dad put it on there because he thought it would be pretty much indestructible. [/QUOTE]
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