What Scopes You Have Broken?

[crowpopper]

thebookdoc - 5/1/2010  12:08 PM

Doing a little quick research here, and just wondering, what scopes have you actually broken, and what were they attached to when you broke them?

I've only broken one because I found out about springer ratings right after that. It was a Leapers, which, funny, are springer rated. It was on an untuned Walther Force 1000 at the time.

 i broke my Night force varmint scope which was attatched to my Rock river AR    :emoticon:  :emoticon:  :emoticon:
how you ask

well its easy actually
i ice fish alot
and when i ice fish i also like to predator hunt
so strap the AR on the front gun rack of 4 wheeler
and when fishing im ready to call
well i forgot to strap it down to the rack drive over a bump in the ice gun fell off and just as i was going over an ice heave or hole the gun landed under tire
gun and scope popped in 2
i think i cryed a bit and still get a tear thinking of the stupidity in what i did
a customized 2000 dollar rifle and 1800 dolla scope down the tubes
 :0  :emoticon:
sorry not airgun related lol
just thought id share with yall

[t165]

Before I knew better I went through 3-4 older Bushnell and Weaver scopes approximately 10 years ago trying to scope a RWS 34. These were older cheap models and the 34 did a marvelous job of trashing them. The RWS 34 was my first springer...still have it, great air rifle. It now wears a 3x9-32 Leapers scope which has worked fine. I currently have (9) springers which wear Leapers scopes and except for a basic 4x Leapers that was mounted on a wicked kicking .25 B28 they have all worked fine. The Leapers scope which went the way of the Dinosaurs would not hold zero and had a piece of a mesh looking material shifting around on the lense while shooting the B28. It lasted about 50 shots. Leapers replaced the scope for nothing.  I have the exact same scope on a .22 RWS 350 which has worked great for well over a year with about 1800 shots fired. The replacement 4x Leapers scope I mounted on the .25 B28 has only been fired 20-30 times since I mounted it so I'm not sure if the first was defective or if this scope will simply not hold up to the recoil of the .25 B28. I recently purchased a Weihrauch HW50s and Beeman R7 and they are getting all of my attention right now. I mounted Leapers scopes on them due to the excellent customer service I received from Leapers over the scope the B28 ate. I own several Leupold, Nikon, Bushnell Elite...ect, scopes on my powder burners which are great but placing $250-$600 scopes on a short range air rifle seems foolish to me. Well, maybe not foolish...but it would cost me a bunch of money to replace all my springers with higher quality glass. I have a spare 2x7-33 Leupold VX1 in my safe I may put on the R7 just because it is small and the little Beeman is such a sweet air rifle.

[fnash]

An inner lens broke loose in a Leapers  6x32 Red/Green AO Bug Buster. Believe it or not on a XS B3-1 .22 522 fps air gun. Checking with Leapers about it now...Frank

[jct842]

for what it is worth, when you compare products sold at walmart check the box to see if it has in fine print walmarts name and that the model number is exactly the same as one from a better company.  Quite a few products walmart sells are similar but have been dumbed down and only available at walmart.  With the volume they buy at, they can dictate quality of just about any product from toasters to tools and surely scopes too.  I bought a motorguide trolling motor at walmart, that is not listed on the motorguide web site  and can not get parts for.  John

[Progun]

The first scope failure I ever had back in the mid-nineties was a BSA 3x12 AO airgun scope. I think at the time it started rotating the crosshairs on a Gamo 1250. Since that failure I killed a Bushnell Trophy 6X18AO on an untuned 350 mag. After 1000 shots or so, it would not hold zero. Switched it to a 22 rimfire and the wandering zero problem persisted. Had a Simmons Pro Air 4x12x40AO that also started rotating the crosshairs on another Gamo 1250 but the Simmons Pro Air 6x18x40AO is still in service after nearly 20 years of riding magnum springers. Most recently the three leapers and centerpoint scopes I've tried ALL failed to hold zero for very long on various springers I mounted them on. In each case the windage adjustments just refused to stay where you put them in spite of optically centering the adjustments and locking them down. They liked to wander a bit too much for my taste. No more Leapers or CenterPoints for me.

[itsnotom]

wally world centerpoint 4x16x40AO on a g1 extreme