SRSA311
Regular
- Location
- Hamilton Ontario
Good day. First time in post, new member.
Might as well start off as a friend once told me, if you know something that someone else might want to know, PASS IT ON! Dr. Hackenbush.
This is a letter that I had sent out to one of my clubs. Maybe someone out there will find it useful.
ELCAN C79 3.5 POWER SCOPE
This is my observations on this scope for those interested in buying one. I am going to deal, specifically with the mount which is the Achilles heal of this system. I find the scope proper to be a nice piece of glass. I am no expert on this system but I can give some information due to the fact that I have both the old and newer mounts in my possession. When I bought my scope, it came with the old style mount. In my experience, this mount will not hold its zero. Fortunately for me, a good friend had a newer style mount that he was willing to sell me. This was the end of my zeroing problems when I transferred the “scope” to the new style mount. I have heard people ask, how to tell the two apart. This is what I can see.
If the “scope” has been serviced, these two items “could” have been changed out. The tightening knobs on my old mount are black. The new mount’s knobs are the same color as the base. The floating side of the base clamping jaw has a manufacturers casting mark on it on the new base. It is about 3/16” in diameter and located just right of the left tightening knob. The diameter is recessed; the information within the diameter is raised. There is a series of dots, one number and a line over the number. Usually, a line like this indicates that the information be read with the line on the bottom. This would make mine a “6”. As this information was cast into the mount, I will take a guess that it was cast in 1996. At this point I would like to say that if anyone has more or better information than me OR if I am simply wrong, please pass that info along.
The left side of the mount (with the tightening knobs) on the old and new mount have hash marks around the windage screw. Both have an arrow indicating a clock wise direction. On the old mount, these markings are recessed. On the new mount they are raised or proud of the mount face. These markings are also on the right side of the new mount, but, are not on the old mount. Windage markings on the front of the mount are present on both mounts. On the old mount they are recessed, proud on the new mount. There is one mark on the top half of the old mount and one on the bottom. On the new mount, there is one on the bottom and five on the top.
Looking at the side profile of the mount, either side will do. Light can be seen between the upper and lower halves. On the new style mount, you will be able to see a coil type spring, roughly in the middle of the mount. There is no such spring on the old mount.
There are probably further internal differences between the two mounts. This note is intended to help know how to tell the “good mount” from the “bad mount” when looking to buy one, nothing more. There are no serial numbers on the mounts. The scope serial number is on the bottom left edge of the scope itself.
Good shooting folks!
SRSA311
Might as well start off as a friend once told me, if you know something that someone else might want to know, PASS IT ON! Dr. Hackenbush.
This is a letter that I had sent out to one of my clubs. Maybe someone out there will find it useful.
ELCAN C79 3.5 POWER SCOPE
This is my observations on this scope for those interested in buying one. I am going to deal, specifically with the mount which is the Achilles heal of this system. I find the scope proper to be a nice piece of glass. I am no expert on this system but I can give some information due to the fact that I have both the old and newer mounts in my possession. When I bought my scope, it came with the old style mount. In my experience, this mount will not hold its zero. Fortunately for me, a good friend had a newer style mount that he was willing to sell me. This was the end of my zeroing problems when I transferred the “scope” to the new style mount. I have heard people ask, how to tell the two apart. This is what I can see.
If the “scope” has been serviced, these two items “could” have been changed out. The tightening knobs on my old mount are black. The new mount’s knobs are the same color as the base. The floating side of the base clamping jaw has a manufacturers casting mark on it on the new base. It is about 3/16” in diameter and located just right of the left tightening knob. The diameter is recessed; the information within the diameter is raised. There is a series of dots, one number and a line over the number. Usually, a line like this indicates that the information be read with the line on the bottom. This would make mine a “6”. As this information was cast into the mount, I will take a guess that it was cast in 1996. At this point I would like to say that if anyone has more or better information than me OR if I am simply wrong, please pass that info along.
The left side of the mount (with the tightening knobs) on the old and new mount have hash marks around the windage screw. Both have an arrow indicating a clock wise direction. On the old mount, these markings are recessed. On the new mount they are raised or proud of the mount face. These markings are also on the right side of the new mount, but, are not on the old mount. Windage markings on the front of the mount are present on both mounts. On the old mount they are recessed, proud on the new mount. There is one mark on the top half of the old mount and one on the bottom. On the new mount, there is one on the bottom and five on the top.
Looking at the side profile of the mount, either side will do. Light can be seen between the upper and lower halves. On the new style mount, you will be able to see a coil type spring, roughly in the middle of the mount. There is no such spring on the old mount.
There are probably further internal differences between the two mounts. This note is intended to help know how to tell the “good mount” from the “bad mount” when looking to buy one, nothing more. There are no serial numbers on the mounts. The scope serial number is on the bottom left edge of the scope itself.
Good shooting folks!
SRSA311
