please help!! nightforce scope talley rings

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orangecrush

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i have an x bolt varmint special in 308 with the laminate stock and heavier barrel... i recently put a nightforce 5.5-22x50 nxs scope on the gun using medium talley integrated rings...

my dillema is i have 9.5 moa of elevation left after zeroing the scope...

the rings are installed correctly with the taller one in the back ... evrything works perfect with the scope and it is holding its zero and tracking great...zero stop is awesome...

im new to nightforce, is there something with the scope i am missing?? or is it just the rings are a poor design?? did i get a bad set of rings ??

please help !! thanks in advance !!
 
Something is VERY wrong! That optic has 100 MOA of elevation in it, to only have 9 or so left means most likely wrong rings for the application. With an x bolt you are really limited in options, but it seems to me that you may have the wrong rings on the rifle.
 
I agree with you!! However the rings are right from the browning website for xbolts... So is it more an issue of a manufacturers defect ?? I contacted talley and they were helpfull untill i got more specific with my problem now its been 2 weeks since thier last reply...
 
Possibly when they packaged them they were mis-marked?
This may sound dumb but have you tried reversing the rings from front to rear. I am not terribly familiar with the x bolt as we see very few of them here, but as I recall 1 is thicker than the other?
 
orangecrush said:
Or is there a way to alter the max elevation point that i dont know of in a zero stop nightforce scope??
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Typicaslly all NF scopes are shipped elevation neutral or in the middle of the adjustment range and the zero stop is not engaged so you can zero at 100, then engage the zero stop clutch mechanism.
Turn the elevation turret all the way down , then count the revolutions to the upper limit, on a high speed turret (20 MOA per revolution) you should have 5 complete revolutions, if it is the older 10 MOA per revolution you should have 10 revolutions.

So what happens if you swap the rings front to rear and such? Does the scope sit into the rings well or not, if not certainly do not torque down the top ring half or you will bend the tube.
 
Well thats a relief !! You at least ruled out the scope for me !

Sits in the rings great and if i swap the rings around ill lose my zero all together because the scope would be pointing up higher than it is now...
 
orangecrush said:
Well thats a relief !! You at least ruled out the scope for me !

Sits in the rings great and if i swap the rings around ill lose my zero all together because the scope would be pointing up higher than it is now...
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You are correct, sorry I was not on my A game, long day at the mine:redface:
The rear needs to be higher to get on target, or the front lower, which then brings us back to possibly wrong rings in same package?
 
thanks again for the quick reply !!

i have a feeling your right !! it is an issue with the rings regardless... unless the varmint special has a different shaped reciever than a standard xbolt since it is a heavier barrel...

the leupold rings and scope were fine before i went to this combo... thats what points me strongly towards a faulty set of talleys ...

any browning experts out there ??
 
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