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Welp...I posted this a couple of days ago...
So today after my last zoom meeting I head out to the range...and grab several boxes of my lightfield slugs. Zeroed my shotgun at 50 yards 3" high within 7 rounds. Moved it back to 100 and had the gun/scope almost zeroed in when I started missing the target entirely. Shot 3 more times and stopped to look things over. Put the shotgun back into the lead sled and felt my scope move. Not good...looked it over and sure enough both my front and rear bases were loose. Took it to the club house and found some tools and went back to sighting it in. Shot three more rounds and again my rounds were off...looked closely and found that the screw to the stock was loose as well. Went back to the club house and found a larger screwdriver and locked the screw down again.
At this time I was out of rounds and decided to go to my gun shop and use the tools from the gunsmith and make sure everything is tight. Get there and they have some blue locktite and take my scope off and put locktite on the base screws as well as the screw for the stock. This has happened twice...so hopefully no more of the screws working loose.
Sent my leupold into the company to have it "repaired" and now I feel like an idiot. I should have known that I had a loose screw (well that's what my wife says is wrong with me.), but on the bright side...I now have a vortex scope that I found for a steal of a deal. When I do get my scope back from Leupold it will go on my sons shotgun.
Vortex Vanquish 4-12x40 scope--two questions
My leupold crapped out on my last Thursday (Friday was shotgun opening weekend). I went to Cabelas and found the Vortex Vanquish scope 4-12x40 for 149.00. I bought it and placed it on my Mossberg 695 and will sight it in this week. Once I get my other scope back it will possibly go on my...
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So today after my last zoom meeting I head out to the range...and grab several boxes of my lightfield slugs. Zeroed my shotgun at 50 yards 3" high within 7 rounds. Moved it back to 100 and had the gun/scope almost zeroed in when I started missing the target entirely. Shot 3 more times and stopped to look things over. Put the shotgun back into the lead sled and felt my scope move. Not good...looked it over and sure enough both my front and rear bases were loose. Took it to the club house and found some tools and went back to sighting it in. Shot three more rounds and again my rounds were off...looked closely and found that the screw to the stock was loose as well. Went back to the club house and found a larger screwdriver and locked the screw down again.
At this time I was out of rounds and decided to go to my gun shop and use the tools from the gunsmith and make sure everything is tight. Get there and they have some blue locktite and take my scope off and put locktite on the base screws as well as the screw for the stock. This has happened twice...so hopefully no more of the screws working loose.
Sent my leupold into the company to have it "repaired" and now I feel like an idiot. I should have known that I had a loose screw (well that's what my wife says is wrong with me.), but on the bright side...I now have a vortex scope that I found for a steal of a deal. When I do get my scope back from Leupold it will go on my sons shotgun.
