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Have you shot it with the new scope yet? What do you think?

 

Weather has tuned nasty. When it was warm, the wind was blowing, now it's going sub-zero. I shot a few rounds off the deck the other day to get it on the paper. It was about 4" high @ 25yds & 1" left although shooting off the door jamb I think I pulled the shot left. I adjusted the elevation & shot @ a football size rock on the bank from 60yds & hit it pretty much center.

 

I'm going to load up some 8X57 tomorrow so I'll be ready for the 1st decent day to go to the range.

 

I did find something interesting when I pulled the 3-9x42 Kales off. It was shooting a bit erratic last fall & I found a pinhead sized spot where the anodizing was worn off the bottom of the objective bell. I think it was contacting the front edge of the front base ever so slightly.

 

I sold the VX-2 3-9x40 that was on the Mauser last season (2014) to a kid that bought the 7mm-08 AXIS-II & put the Kales on the Mauser last winter. It shot its usual boring <1/2 cloverleafs immediately after the swap. When I went out to verify the zero this last fall it was occasionally throwing flyers out about 2".

 

I'm thinking that the scope contact was the culprit. I wish they hadn't used the wide duplex on the untralight. I used the duplex gap subtension as a range estimator. The gap on the 3-9x33 is 18" @ 100yds when @ 9x! The 3-9x40 was 6"

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