elky McElkerson
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- Mar 13, 2014
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some history. 2007 i rifle hunted. had my spanking newer 257 weatherby all sighted in..shiny and shiny. brand new leupold VXIII. being younger and dumber, and not knowing how to deer hunt..all we did was walk and walk up and down mountains looking for deer. standing on a shale slope, the ground gave out under me and i tumbled down a small hill. no danger of death, but the rifle on my shoulder would disagree. i bumped it hard. bent both turret caps, tiny dent in scope barrel. scratched up my trigger guard.. i took care of that \"new rifle look/smell\" with that outing. thankfully i killed a deer with it the previous season. PRIVATE RANCH in NM. i cleaned my rifle and put it away.
until today. it still had that clean solvent smell. i put it into a case, snuck out of work and hit the gun range. i paid the guy $15, ran down range, and clipped up three new sighting in targets. i walk back down.
RANGE HOT!
sit down, and what!..the scope is a tad out of focus. i turn the parallax ring thing, only to realize that isnt the parallax ring thing. it was a loose rear objective. RUT ROH!! i look closer and feel the scope moving..(getting worse)..i put on my reading glasses and see one of my scope ring screws is missing, or it sheared. i need to peek in with a light. hahahha..
the guy wouldnt refund me the $15. i never shoot a shot. when i was leaving a see a 13 year old kid with the worst trigger pull i have ever seen he would hover his finger outside the trigger guard, and would yank it in to pull the trigger. it was so bad, i saw it from my peripheral. i hear the dad say, \"i dont know where that went?\" i offered them my sandbags. set the kid up an showed him how to move the sandbags so it would cradle the rifle on the target. and then i worked on his trigger pull. he got better, not great. but he finally hit paper, and i told him. 28 clicks up, 24 clicks right. BOOM!! he still kinda sucked, but he could now at least kill a deer. he won a youth hunt this sat. talk about last minute.
range cold..i grabbed my sandbags and left. wish them luck.
i\'m happy Leupold has a stellar warranty repair department. i\'m gonna upgrade to some target turrets, and maybe mil-dot reticles. i am bad on optics. yikes.
until today. it still had that clean solvent smell. i put it into a case, snuck out of work and hit the gun range. i paid the guy $15, ran down range, and clipped up three new sighting in targets. i walk back down.
RANGE HOT!
sit down, and what!..the scope is a tad out of focus. i turn the parallax ring thing, only to realize that isnt the parallax ring thing. it was a loose rear objective. RUT ROH!! i look closer and feel the scope moving..(getting worse)..i put on my reading glasses and see one of my scope ring screws is missing, or it sheared. i need to peek in with a light. hahahha..
the guy wouldnt refund me the $15. i never shoot a shot. when i was leaving a see a 13 year old kid with the worst trigger pull i have ever seen he would hover his finger outside the trigger guard, and would yank it in to pull the trigger. it was so bad, i saw it from my peripheral. i hear the dad say, \"i dont know where that went?\" i offered them my sandbags. set the kid up an showed him how to move the sandbags so it would cradle the rifle on the target. and then i worked on his trigger pull. he got better, not great. but he finally hit paper, and i told him. 28 clicks up, 24 clicks right. BOOM!! he still kinda sucked, but he could now at least kill a deer. he won a youth hunt this sat. talk about last minute.
range cold..i grabbed my sandbags and left. wish them luck.
i\'m happy Leupold has a stellar warranty repair department. i\'m gonna upgrade to some target turrets, and maybe mil-dot reticles. i am bad on optics. yikes.
