The evil forces of the Gremlin Underworld have been afoot in my gun safe! How did I arrive at this conclusion you ask? I submit the following as evidence.
1. Months ago, I put a new Timney trigger in my Remington 700 CDL .30-06 rifle. Recently I took the rifle to the range and was settling it into the bags when front of the scope moved in my hand! The front scope mount ring, a Leupold ring no less, had broken in two. Glad that happened at the range!
2. My scoped Ruger MKIII began to shoot odd shaped, much larger than average groups. I gave it a very thorough going over and the problem persisted. Finally I decided to shoot group, rap the scope with a screwdriver handle and shoot another group. Bingo! The windage was off by several inches. I removed the scope and shoot it. Loose parts rattled inside. Scope was an older high quality made in Japan optic which is now in the landfill.
3. Two weeks ago I put a new old stock BSA Sweet 17 scope on my Marlin 882 SS .22 WMR rifle. I bore sighted it and as usual my first shot landed within an inch of the bullseye. Cool, or so I thought. The rifle would not group. Two shots here, a shot there, two shots way over there. Switching ammo didn't help. Then all of a sudden its shooting a foot high at 50 yards. Yeah, you guessed it, the erector assembly for the crosshairs failed. Usually the older, all metal BSA scopes are solid performers. I have six identical units.
4. Last Sunday, my wife and I hit the .22 rifle range. I took my Marlin 80DL .22 LR on which I'd just done some trigger work. Shooting bulk high velocity ammo, it settled in nicely shooting sub one inch groups at 50 yards. So I commenced to sniping my 2 inch metal spinners, plastic medicine bottles and bits of clay pigeons at 50 to 70 yards. All of a sudden I started missing. First several shots high left, then several shots right on, then several shots low and right. What?? I returned to my paper targets and the culprit became readily apparent. The crosshairs were rotating around in a circle!. Second of the BSA scopes to bite it in two weeks.
So, I am hoping the Gremlins are satisfied. Also hoping the other four BSA scopes don't suffer the same crosshair failures, as I don't really have the cash to re-scope all .22 rifles at once!
1. Months ago, I put a new Timney trigger in my Remington 700 CDL .30-06 rifle. Recently I took the rifle to the range and was settling it into the bags when front of the scope moved in my hand! The front scope mount ring, a Leupold ring no less, had broken in two. Glad that happened at the range!
2. My scoped Ruger MKIII began to shoot odd shaped, much larger than average groups. I gave it a very thorough going over and the problem persisted. Finally I decided to shoot group, rap the scope with a screwdriver handle and shoot another group. Bingo! The windage was off by several inches. I removed the scope and shoot it. Loose parts rattled inside. Scope was an older high quality made in Japan optic which is now in the landfill.
3. Two weeks ago I put a new old stock BSA Sweet 17 scope on my Marlin 882 SS .22 WMR rifle. I bore sighted it and as usual my first shot landed within an inch of the bullseye. Cool, or so I thought. The rifle would not group. Two shots here, a shot there, two shots way over there. Switching ammo didn't help. Then all of a sudden its shooting a foot high at 50 yards. Yeah, you guessed it, the erector assembly for the crosshairs failed. Usually the older, all metal BSA scopes are solid performers. I have six identical units.
4. Last Sunday, my wife and I hit the .22 rifle range. I took my Marlin 80DL .22 LR on which I'd just done some trigger work. Shooting bulk high velocity ammo, it settled in nicely shooting sub one inch groups at 50 yards. So I commenced to sniping my 2 inch metal spinners, plastic medicine bottles and bits of clay pigeons at 50 to 70 yards. All of a sudden I started missing. First several shots high left, then several shots right on, then several shots low and right. What?? I returned to my paper targets and the culprit became readily apparent. The crosshairs were rotating around in a circle!. Second of the BSA scopes to bite it in two weeks.
So, I am hoping the Gremlins are satisfied. Also hoping the other four BSA scopes don't suffer the same crosshair failures, as I don't really have the cash to re-scope all .22 rifles at once!