Went to give my new ruger mk2 a good cleaning at lunch time so I could pop by the range on the way home. Set it up to get going and some faint silvery lines catch my eye on the scope right behind the rear ring. WTF
The scope had shifted.
Took everything apart and see that there's a nice coiler of scraped aluminum on the bottom of my new Nikon scope Now WTF have I done. Luckily the shavings cleaned up well with a stone and you can barely feel the gouge - probably only a thousanth or two of an inch. Lucky. At this point I'm thinking there must be some serious alignment issues but quickly figure out that the front ring is looser than hell at the base. Only the rear ring was supporting the scope after the recoil had loosened the front ring from the receiver.
I'm new to these rifles and they're ring mounting system and see now you need to tourque those puppys. Normally I have to really be carefull not to use too much strength on smaller fastenings of all type and I've wrecked/stripped my fair share of screws and bolts before. My wife is convinced I have no feeling in my hands and have the finessfull touch of a grizzly bear But low and behold this time I didn't get the fricking thing tight enough. Even though I did use locktight the recoil during last session obviously loosened the bolt that mounts the rings to the reciver up and bloody nears ruined a good scope! Anyways, just a reminder a guy should always recheck s**t like
this especially when its new...
Oh and luckily it still shoots OK, so I haven't buggered anything up but cosmetics of the scope. Break in continues........
The scope had shifted.Took everything apart and see that there's a nice coiler of scraped aluminum on the bottom of my new Nikon scope
Now WTF have I done. Luckily the shavings cleaned up well with a stone and you can barely feel the gouge - probably only a thousanth or two of an inch. Lucky. At this point I'm thinking there must be some serious alignment issues but quickly figure out that the front ring is looser than hell at the base. Only the rear ring was supporting the scope after the recoil had loosened the front ring from the receiver.I'm new to these rifles and they're ring mounting system and see now you need to tourque those puppys. Normally I have to really be carefull not to use too much strength on smaller fastenings of all type and I've wrecked/stripped my fair share of screws and bolts before. My wife is convinced I have no feeling in my hands and have the finessfull touch of a grizzly bear
But low and behold this time I didn't get the fricking thing tight enough. Even though I did use locktight the recoil during last session obviously loosened the bolt that mounts the rings to the reciver up and bloody nears ruined a good scope! Anyways, just a reminder a guy should always recheck s**t like this especially when its new...Oh and luckily it still shoots OK, so I haven't buggered anything up but cosmetics of the scope. Break in continues........
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