in2anity wrote: If I were you I'd be putting one of the VX-3i 1.5-5x20 on it. Very good scopes those, for practical applications.
Nails wrote:Thanks all.
I tried mounting the big scope but my spare 30mm rings were just a little too low, so I put the Leupold unit back on and tried it again. I tried zeroing at 40m offhand instead of using the bench and got much better results with same ammo S&B 240gn. Part of the problem seems to be astigmatism (after reading up on it) so I’ve got an appointment to see what corrective options there are, I’ll take the two red dots with me so I can check them out ith the lenses in place.
After sighting in offhand I setup 10 water filled 3 litre milk containers and a few 600ml ones - had a blast and only missed once - not sure why it didn’t seem to work last time but I think in2anity post above with recoil from a bench effect could be it, I couldn’t get any kind of accuracy that way.
Think I’ll probably keep the leupold scope now, especially if the eye doc can help further
Nails wrote:Thanks all.
I tried mounting the big scope but my spare 30mm rings were just a little too low, so I put the Leupold unit back on and tried it again. I tried zeroing at 40m offhand instead of using the bench and got much better results with same ammo S&B 240gn. Part of the problem seems to be astigmatism (after reading up on it) so I’ve got an appointment to see what corrective options there are, I’ll take the two red dots with me so I can check them out ith the lenses in place.
After sighting in offhand I setup 10 water filled 3 litre milk containers and a few 600ml ones - had a blast and only missed once - not sure why it didn’t seem to work last time but I think in2anity post above with recoil from a bench effect could be it, I couldn’t get any kind of accuracy that way.
Think I’ll probably keep the leupold scope now, especially if the eye doc can help further
Nails wrote:It would be interesting to see how you went with that Tubs. I got some new specs and the dot is much sharper now so fairly happy with it. The only thing with this scope is this shape around the dot. It seems to be etched into the glass as its visible when the dot is off especially in brighter daylight, in shadow it’s barely noticeable. It’s about 4 times the dot size and can be a bit distracting with paper targets anyway
Nails wrote:I bought a Leupold 1moa red dot which has very high mounts and seems like a cheap crappy device to me, albeit very heavy duty lol, even on the lowest setting the dot has a halo that looks like a skewed piece of paper behind the dot at 50 yards (about 4x the size of the dot) and on increasing the brightness just makes the dot and halo bigger still, more like 3moa than 1 - returning or using as a credit for the next attempt hopefully.
cleger wrote:Leupold FX-2. Only 6.5 oz, and a bit of mag for tired eyes.
https://www.leupold.com/fx-ii-ultraligh ... riflescope
bigrich wrote:cleger wrote:Leupold FX-2. Only 6.5 oz, and a bit of mag for tired eyes.
https://www.leupold.com/fx-ii-ultraligh ... riflescope
i looked at these , but they have a long 5" eye releif for big game rifles and mounting them far enough forward can be a issue with out a pic type rail . the eye box ends up being over the top of the hammer as well which would make it a bit fiddly without a hammer spur i reckon
cleger wrote:bigrich wrote:cleger wrote:Leupold FX-2. Only 6.5 oz, and a bit of mag for tired eyes.
https://www.leupold.com/fx-ii-ultraligh ... riflescope
i looked at these , but they have a long 5" eye releif for big game rifles and mounting them far enough forward can be a issue with out a pic type rail . the eye box ends up being over the top of the hammer as well which would make it a bit fiddly without a hammer spur i reckon
Oh... I thought the "dark" was the one with the rail.
bigrich wrote:cleger wrote:bigrich wrote:cleger wrote:Leupold FX-2. Only 6.5 oz, and a bit of mag for tired eyes.
https://www.leupold.com/fx-ii-ultraligh ... riflescope
i looked at these , but they have a long 5" eye releif for big game rifles and mounting them far enough forward can be a issue with out a pic type rail . the eye box ends up being over the top of the hammer as well which would make it a bit fiddly without a hammer spur i reckon
Oh... I thought the "dark" was the one with the rail.
Yes , you are correct. I was thinking in terms of my 1894 . Sorry