wolfmangreg
HAM Sniper
A question for the turret dialers among us - what scopes have you owned that track spot on time after time, long term?
Doesn't have to be perfectly accurate in regard to click values (2.5 mils on turret equals exactly 2.5 mils on target), just tracks to the same point of impact without fail. Not just occasional dialing, but thousands of twists over years.
Asking because it seems I've had less than stellar luck with that particular quality. Only brand that has taken a lickin' & kept on clickin' is SWFA. Have two in 12x. One is 5+ years old, & has had the living snot clicked out of it. The other is 3+ years, hasn't been twisted nearly as much but still a lot. Both still as inevitable as death & taxes.
Have had number of more expensive scopes start to wander after heavy use. Sometimes 6 months, sometimes a year or more, but eventually the mechanism gets some slop. And yes, in every case, other potential factors were eliminated. Often by replacing with the "backup" SWFA 12X, & having my dope cards suddenly become accurate again
Not going to call out brands, since some of them were otherwise very good scopes, with reputations for reliability. Suspect I've just gotten bad examples.
Fwiw, while more expensive than the SWFA, none were truly high end (March, Zeiss, Nightforce etc).
Doesn't have to be perfectly accurate in regard to click values (2.5 mils on turret equals exactly 2.5 mils on target), just tracks to the same point of impact without fail. Not just occasional dialing, but thousands of twists over years.
Asking because it seems I've had less than stellar luck with that particular quality. Only brand that has taken a lickin' & kept on clickin' is SWFA. Have two in 12x. One is 5+ years old, & has had the living snot clicked out of it. The other is 3+ years, hasn't been twisted nearly as much but still a lot. Both still as inevitable as death & taxes.
Have had number of more expensive scopes start to wander after heavy use. Sometimes 6 months, sometimes a year or more, but eventually the mechanism gets some slop. And yes, in every case, other potential factors were eliminated. Often by replacing with the "backup" SWFA 12X, & having my dope cards suddenly become accurate again
Not going to call out brands, since some of them were otherwise very good scopes, with reputations for reliability. Suspect I've just gotten bad examples.
Fwiw, while more expensive than the SWFA, none were truly high end (March, Zeiss, Nightforce etc).
