Blr243 wrote:Brinny , you seem to be still haveing a ton of trouble with your scopes, Mine is behaving itself. I have actually been speaking to it and I have told it that if it plays up I will tie it to a tree and burn it alive ..so I guess it’s too scared to run amok
Yes mate....Maybe i should have tried that method....Might have saved me a heap of dramas....
The amount of times i threatened to wrap the POS around a fence post didnt work for me though....
I have had 4 Pulsar thermals and all 4 have failed....
The 3 XQ50s i have had have all had POI issues....Mostly shooting 3 inches to the right at 100m....
Most of the foxes i shoot are out to 200m+....so thats 6 inches out at that distance...
I shoot around 3-400 foxes a year and have been using thermals for the last 3 years....
So not exactly new to it....
I cant tell you how dissapointed i was to be having these problems....You sometimes doubt yourself when taking shots and missing....
But the proof is at the range next day when you fire a shot at your target and its 3 inches from where it was the day before....and then putting a group in the same place....
Rezero only to find it doing the same thing, maybe a day or a week later....Happened in half an hour to me one day....
We all pull shots and miss from time to time....
But i cant say that i have ever pulled 5 shots that make a tight group the size of a 10c piece 3 inches from the bull......and that was happening constantly...When they moved they still shot a tight group....but not where it should have been...
Why its happening is anyones guess....
Everyone that is having these issues with them (and there are a lot) is asking the same questions....and getting no answers from anyone....
Why do they send a new scope as a replacement if the one sent back is fixable???.....There is some extremely frustrated angry hunters out there that is going through the same crap...
I take my fox hunting extremely seriously, and do not need or want inferior gear that i pay a small fortune for that has a mind of its own that lets me down...
Is the new GSCI thermal any better??....TBH, i have no idea....Time will tell....Im not getting too excited about it yet, but early indications look promising...
But i can tell you this....It cant be any worse than what i have had....
A day without a hunt, is a day lost.....