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Should have taken a picture but a rifle was brought in for bore sighting and the scope was in the rings.
Weaver bases and the owner had the front ring in the groove but the back set was in the groove on the left side but not the right.
Obviously the bases had not been set in place and the scope saddled into the rings.
The scope showed some ring marks. I wonder how much torque that would have put on the scope tube.

And it was mounted 90 degrees off so the windage became elevation and elevation windage.
 
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I've seen some funny scope mounting jobs working a counter. One guy bought a Browning Medalion with a Zeiss Conquest, said he would mount the scope himself. Brought it back a few days later saying it shoots for #### and he wants his money back. I open the case and start to laugh because I thought it was a joke. The scope was mounted backwards, objective end towards the eye. The guy was dead serious.

We also had this idiot associate that would mount scopes even though he didn't know how to do it properly. Had a guy come back saying his gun was shooting poorly, opened the case and the scope fell off.
 
I have had several where the vertical adjustment was on the left, and horizontal was on top. "The more I try to zero it, the further off it gets" No sh-t !!! Jim
 
cam1936 said:
I've seen some funny scope mounting jobs working a counter. One guy bought a Browning Medalion with a Zeiss Conquest, said he would mount the scope himself. Brought it back a few days later saying it shoots for #### and he wants his money back. I open the case and start to laugh because I thought it was a joke. The scope was mounted backwards, objective end towards the eye. The guy was dead serious.

We also had this idiot associate that would mount scopes even though he didn't know how to do it properly. Had a guy come back saying his gun was shooting poorly, opened the case and the scope fell off.
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Not a big Bass Pro fan but one day will stopping by to check on the powder selection I watched a counter jockey pull out a brand new Leupold VXIII out of the box and use the scope tube as leverage to twist in the Leupold dual dovetail rings on a customers new rifle, all while he watched with a big smile on his face.
 
crazy_davey said:
Not a big Bass Pro fan but one day will stopping by to check on the powder selection I watched a counter jockey pull out a brand new Leupold VXIII out of the box and use the scope tube as leverage to twist in the Leupold dual dovetail rings on a customers new rifle, all while he watched with a big smile on his face.
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I too have seen that move...
 
crazy_davey said:
Not a big Bass Pro fan but one day will stopping by to check on the powder selection I watched a counter jockey pull out a brand new Leupold VXIII out of the box and use the scope tube as leverage to twist in the Leupold dual dovetail rings on a customers new rifle, all while he watched with a big smile on his face.
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I have seen that all to many times, once when questioning the performance I was told... " that's how the pros do it and that is why Weaver scopes have steel tubes !! "
 
crazy_davey said:
Not a big Bass Pro fan but one day will stopping by to check on the powder selection I watched a counter jockey pull out a brand new Leupold VXIII out of the box and use the scope tube as leverage to twist in the Leupold dual dovetail rings on a customers new rifle, all while he watched with a big smile on his face.
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Ouch! Big box store shenanigans never fail to impress.
 
A lady had brought me a Browning A-Bolt, saying that neither her, her husband or her LEO son, could get the thing to shoot straight. I took one look at it and asked her how long the windage screws had been missing on the Redfield 2 piece mount. The scope had literally moved forward in the front ring, 1 inch.
Another time, I had a local car salesman complain that he ran out of elevation on his scope. Looking at it on-site, I quickly turned it 90 degrees clockwise, boresighted it and left.
Had one fellow call me up, saying he was moving and wanted to sell me some guns. I told him where we could meet and the appointed hour. Guy shows up with a heavy green garbage bag and hands it to me. Inside was a Marlin 336 and a Cooey 84 (20g), totally disassembled, wood and all, soaking in 30 weight motor oil! Metal was pristine...
 
Bought a set of bases for my model 70 once and it didn't matter what I did it shot high. Finally got looking at it and seen that one was a low base and one was a medium base.
 
I recall reading an article about long range shooting where the guy explained that his particular scope had more horizontal adjustment than vertical adjustment.
So he deliberately rotated the scope 90 deg CCW to put the windage knob on top, in order to be able to dial in more vertical.
Of course this guy was an experienced shooter, so it worked fine for him. He did say he got a lot of funny looks though!
 
I have mentioned on here before, that in the mid 1960s I was behind the counter in a quite active gun store. Some of the ammo we carried often caused a controversy, such as 6.5 x 55 and 6.5 x 54. Some customers weren't sure of which one they required, so when someone asked for one of these calibres we would usually quiz them, to make sure they were getting the correct cartridge for their rifle.
One day a man of about fifty, dressed in typical backwoods type of clothing, walked into the store and asked for a box of shells in one of these calibres. When I asked him if he was sure, he said, "Yes, I always check it in the barrel." I said, "You check it in the barrel at home then, do you?'
With that he reached somewhere under a jacket, or coat, and pulled out a rifle barrel, unscrewed from the receiver! Flustering for what to say first, I asked how he got it out of the action? He stated that was easy, he just unscrewed it with his hands.
And sure enough, there wasn't a mark on the barrel from any makeshift way to unscrew it.
Still in a state of bewilderment, I was trying to tell him not to shoot it, he didn't know what the headspace might be, and so on.
But he calmly, telling me not to worry, took a cartridge from the box I had passed to him, dropped it in the chamber of the barrel, pointed out to me that it just fit, paid for the shells and left!
He has probably told this story more times than I have, about how he so shocked the gun man at the store, who had never seen anyone walk in with a barrel before, to see if the cartridge fit!
 
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Not a big Bass Pro fan but one day will stopping by to check on the powder selection I watched a counter jockey pull out a brand new Leupold VXIII out of the box and use the scope tube as leverage to twist in the Leupold dual dovetail rings on a customers new rifle, all while he watched with a big smile on his face.
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Hahaha! That is where I used to work! The crazy thing is we had a few Leupold ring wrenches, not to mention a bunch of lapping bars with the scope mounting tools.

Myself and a few others knew what we were doing, some others were completley hopeless. I still have one friend who works there, knows his stuff real well, but he spends 98% of his time in the back. He told me they are down to 2 or 3 comptent employees behind the counter. Whatever you do don't have a big box store employee mount a scope for you, unless he proves himself competent.
 
I got a CZ 550 that when I got my scope and rings from Wholesale sports, they said they could put the scope on for me. However, the scope adjusts in an X pattern not a + pattern. Wondering if Wholesale sports guy got the scope mounting wrong or that's just the way the scope is designed. The scope is a Nikon Monarch. 2.5-8x32.

Guess I could go read the owners manual too.... dang the owners manual is just a thank you for purchase and warranty slip.
 
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crazy_davey said:
Not a big Bass Pro fan but one day will stopping by to check on the powder selection I watched a counter jockey pull out a brand new Leupold VXIII out of the box and use the scope tube as leverage to twist in the Leupold dual dovetail rings on a customers new rifle, all while he watched with a big smile on his face.
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I have a fake Chinese Bushnell rimfire scope (yup, you read correct, fake) that I use for that purpose. Works well. :)
Or I use the screwdriver handle.


I once watched a store employee dry firing a new Mathews compound bow to demonstrate a release a customer was looking at. Wow.
 
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