Toughest scope
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lead sled can destory stock as well ...
BigUglyMan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- New Scotland
Only if you took general science in high school and buy into the marketing hype.
IF there was ANY invention I would like to see "dis-invented" it would be the Lead Sled.
It is absolutely USELESS.
Rifles need to "free-recoil" for load development, and for consistency.
Lead Sleds aren't even good for paper weights ....
- Location
- Western Manitoba
350 Mag - I kind of agree - but as I get older, have noticed stuff is not made to actually work or to be useful - is made to SELL - so long as people buy them, more will be made. Facts and experience do not matter, so long as sales story continues to be seen as "truth". Nicholsan files are the "best" - ask any older millwright - except now made in Brazil and Mexico - not USA; Weaver scopes have not been made in El Paso for decades; and so on - just the sales story at work - facts do not matter.
Schmidt Bender Klassik 6x42
375RUM
338RUM
8mm Magnum
358Norma
Pounded the piss out of this scope, in a saddle scabbard, up and down the mountains, a few horse wrecks with it in the scabbard. Bounced off a few rocks. She just keeps ticking along.
I blew up a few scopes on the big kickers before I bought her, and I don't think I could kill one if I tried.
Not bad cash for a fantastic piece of glass either.
Leupold 1.5-5 was a good one on a 375 H&H that went threw a pile of rounds, but the S&B has had over 10,000 rounds of hard kicking rounds and has never lost zero so I suspect most will never run this amount of retina detaching rounds threw a rifle, little lone a the same scope.
375RUM
338RUM
8mm Magnum
358Norma
Pounded the piss out of this scope, in a saddle scabbard, up and down the mountains, a few horse wrecks with it in the scabbard. Bounced off a few rocks. She just keeps ticking along.
I blew up a few scopes on the big kickers before I bought her, and I don't think I could kill one if I tried.
Not bad cash for a fantastic piece of glass either.
Leupold 1.5-5 was a good one on a 375 H&H that went threw a pile of rounds, but the S&B has had over 10,000 rounds of hard kicking rounds and has never lost zero so I suspect most will never run this amount of retina detaching rounds threw a rifle, little lone a the same scope.
i ve seen in the past stocks destroyed by the use of lead sled and weights on it but it never happened to me.
interesting the sb 6x42 was used by some sniper units as well as the bushnell 3200 10x40 and it worked great for the feedback we had.
Ive not managed it on mine, though I have seen pics of stocks purportedly destroyed on one.- dan
Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I found when using my Palma rifle on a lead sled a dramatic difference point of aim versus a more conventional rifle rest and ear bags. Rifle shot considerably higher from the lead sled. This turned me off the one or two lead sleds our club kept in storage.
try with anything that affect the stock connection to the barrel like a bipod: it can do the same on the shift. lead sled should be used to tame the beast and helping the adjustment then you have to set up the same way you intend to shoot in real life to avoid any bad surprises ...
Exactly because it changes the torque on the recoil lug.
Unless your carrying your lead sled in the field and shooting off it...its useless.
Same as shooting off sandbags on a bench and then slapping a bipod on and going hunting.....it rarely works.
You have to zero the rifle under the conditions your going to be using it in "in the field".
Agree. I have used mine for load development with boomers, but always check group and zero without when I think I have the right load. - dan
Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Every summer the fellas fiddling with thier scope couldn't wouldn't hold zero, unknown reason, invariably it's a vortex.
