Well, I mounted up one of the FXII 6X36 LRD's I got from Cameraland awhile back on my 300 Weatherby. I have Warne bases and a PRW rings on the rifle. When I went to rough zero the rifle at 25 yards I had a couple errant shots at 25 yards I didn't pay much attention to since I was shooting from the sitting in the back yard.
I shot about 15 rounds through the rifle out back while finding the flatspot with the Magnetospeed attached the rifle, so I didn't pay much attention to the shots, but found a couple of great spots.
This past week I took it out to the range and tried to see how my loads shot for groups. Well, I was shooting on the order of 6" groups, with no rhyme or reason to POI.. They generally stayed on the elevation track but were all over windage wise. I was ready to call Krieger and order a new barrel thinking the gun must be bent..
Instead of calling Krieger, I decided to listen to myself and the advice of many around here and check the screws on the action, mounts and bases and replace the scope with a known good optic. Well, I put a 6X SS on the rifle, took it out last night and rezeroed it with some leftover ammo I had from previous shooting and it moved and shots went into the same holes. Granted it was only 25 yards, but it still is pointing to another crushed scope.
The rifle shouldn't be particularly hard on a scope. It is a rechambered P64 so with the Leupold went about 8.75lbs or so and it is in steel bases and rings.
I would have never guessed a 6X fixed Leupold could puke so quickly, but it doesn't make me feel very hot about it at all. The crapper is I really liked the set up a bunch since it saved me about 10 ounces in weight, but at the cost of reliability I'll pass and deal with the weight of a heavier scope that I know is going to move and put shots where I need them.
Anyhow, not a complete Leupold bash session, but it just doesn't look like they are putting the right guts in these things to me. I have busted up more Leupolds in the past 2-3 years than ever and still have some VXIII's that work and track like a scope is supposed to, but I cannot for the life of me wanna come off my wallet to throw good money towards anymore of them. I may have just gotten a slew of flukes..
I will say this, if your rifle starts going screwy, it probably isn't the gun or your ammo... I'd bet on a toasted optics 9.75 times out of 10.. I hate exhausting good bullets and my time towards something that goes bad. Fact of life, but it seems like I am pulling more Leupolds than ever before and now their fixed series is letting me down..
I shot about 15 rounds through the rifle out back while finding the flatspot with the Magnetospeed attached the rifle, so I didn't pay much attention to the shots, but found a couple of great spots.
This past week I took it out to the range and tried to see how my loads shot for groups. Well, I was shooting on the order of 6" groups, with no rhyme or reason to POI.. They generally stayed on the elevation track but were all over windage wise. I was ready to call Krieger and order a new barrel thinking the gun must be bent..
Instead of calling Krieger, I decided to listen to myself and the advice of many around here and check the screws on the action, mounts and bases and replace the scope with a known good optic. Well, I put a 6X SS on the rifle, took it out last night and rezeroed it with some leftover ammo I had from previous shooting and it moved and shots went into the same holes. Granted it was only 25 yards, but it still is pointing to another crushed scope.
The rifle shouldn't be particularly hard on a scope. It is a rechambered P64 so with the Leupold went about 8.75lbs or so and it is in steel bases and rings.
I would have never guessed a 6X fixed Leupold could puke so quickly, but it doesn't make me feel very hot about it at all. The crapper is I really liked the set up a bunch since it saved me about 10 ounces in weight, but at the cost of reliability I'll pass and deal with the weight of a heavier scope that I know is going to move and put shots where I need them.
Anyhow, not a complete Leupold bash session, but it just doesn't look like they are putting the right guts in these things to me. I have busted up more Leupolds in the past 2-3 years than ever and still have some VXIII's that work and track like a scope is supposed to, but I cannot for the life of me wanna come off my wallet to throw good money towards anymore of them. I may have just gotten a slew of flukes..
I will say this, if your rifle starts going screwy, it probably isn't the gun or your ammo... I'd bet on a toasted optics 9.75 times out of 10.. I hate exhausting good bullets and my time towards something that goes bad. Fact of life, but it seems like I am pulling more Leupolds than ever before and now their fixed series is letting me down..
