First the observation:
Was fiddling around with my .223 cleaning and changing scopes when I noticed that the power adjustment ring had some shiney marks on it sorta evenly spaced between 6X and 9X. :?
I had checked for hammer spur clearance when installing the scope and had even ground a little off the end of the spur to allow just a tiny bit more clearance. I checked again and sure enough, the spur cleared the adjustment ring by about 1/16 inch or maybe a hair less.
Hmm...., how could this be?? :shock: I rotated the ring to the 3x mark since it was unmarked having not been used. Cocked it and dropped the hammer. There was another mark shining on the ring. Obviously the hammer had enough overtravel to spring up and hit the scope ring. :eek:
Never did shoot very well with that scope :grin:
So, on the topic of scopes, here is about my dumbest gun trick ever played on myself. The rifle was my trusted Ruger M77 .270 and it was wearing a new scope that I'd just mounted that morning. No matter what I did, the scope would not zero. It did would shoot a nice group, but any attempt to adjust it to a desired point of impact resulted in all sorts of haywire impact changes. After almost a 100 rounds I was out of ammo and rolled up the kit and went home. Two days later while looking at the rig it dawned on me. I'd mounted the scope with the top turret on the left and the right turret on the top :-D :-D
