its my birthday and today i bought myself a new marlin 917vs.
i got a bushnell dusk and dawn 3.5-10x36 scope for it which i really liked. i mounted it. well heres the trouble. the holes for the mounts were drilled crooked and the scope points off to the right of the gun.
i took the gun to the range thinking i could adjust the scope enough to make the holes problem irrelevant and find that the reticle doesnt move when i click for windage or elevation. when i tried to boresight it by removing the bolt and centering my target in the bore, i found that my scope was off to the right about two feet at only 25 yards!!! cmon now i think a new gun should at least be able to be ON PAPER in two shots or so. i ran it out of adjustment clicks to the left but the crosshairs didnt move. the b-square rings the guy at Gander Mountain said were "cheap" turned out to just that, cheap. not two minutes into mounting this scope the little screws stripped out and the hex key rounded everything off. i was a little less than pleased with this.
so now i have a faulty scope and the holes are cockeyed. i tried to fill the clip with ammo and it only will hold 6, not 7 like the book says. so overall i like the looks of the gun but please tell me they are generally of better quality than THIS.
my new toy is beginning to be more annoying than fun.
-Matt
i got a bushnell dusk and dawn 3.5-10x36 scope for it which i really liked. i mounted it. well heres the trouble. the holes for the mounts were drilled crooked and the scope points off to the right of the gun.
i took the gun to the range thinking i could adjust the scope enough to make the holes problem irrelevant and find that the reticle doesnt move when i click for windage or elevation. when i tried to boresight it by removing the bolt and centering my target in the bore, i found that my scope was off to the right about two feet at only 25 yards!!! cmon now i think a new gun should at least be able to be ON PAPER in two shots or so. i ran it out of adjustment clicks to the left but the crosshairs didnt move. the b-square rings the guy at Gander Mountain said were "cheap" turned out to just that, cheap. not two minutes into mounting this scope the little screws stripped out and the hex key rounded everything off. i was a little less than pleased with this.
so now i have a faulty scope and the holes are cockeyed. i tried to fill the clip with ammo and it only will hold 6, not 7 like the book says. so overall i like the looks of the gun but please tell me they are generally of better quality than THIS.
my new toy is beginning to be more annoying than fun.
-Matt