Rifle Scopes Issue with NightForce nx8
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Negative. Currently with the local NF dealer. He shot it a couple days ago and said it was obviously drifting but wants to shoot it on another rifle one more time before he deals with NF himself. I understand not wanting to stand up to NF without being absolutely certain.
Never heard back from the Cameraland guy with an update.
This whole situation is ridiculous. Here I am over a year later getting ready for deer and elk season again and I still don’t have a scope that’s good enough to take hunting
Buy once cry once really burned me this time. I could have bought a dozen other scopes that would have least been good enough for hunting purposes. On the plus side it forced me to focus on archery. Poked a bull opening day. So thanks NightForce!!!
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My local dealer would have just gave me a new one and dealt with NF on the back side.
That depends on what watch you wear 
Even if you didn’t buy it from him?
Submariner blue and gold. It's now 19.5 yrs old and still just awesome.....my wife gave it to me as an engagement gift after I put .30cal diamond on her finger back in 2001
Good deal on getting the bow out and sticking an elk. Sorry to hear you're still dicking with scope.
No but if I didn't buy it from him I wouldn't take it to him that doesn't make any sense to me. respect him enough to take it too him for inspection then respect him enough to buy it from him.
Sure wish after all this time I could say I had a resolution. I had Clearwater SO serve them small claims paperwork so I could get my money back for this thing.
They had a month to respond and waited until the very last day right before time was up. Still awaiting a court date.
Lol. What a company. All of this instead of just refunding or replacing it. I must have really ticked them off.
They had a month to respond and waited until the very last day right before time was up. Still awaiting a court date.
Lol. What a company. All of this instead of just refunding or replacing it. I must have really ticked them off.
Oh I’m sure I will win. I have several credible third-parties(Including axial precision/AllTerra Arms) that were nice enough to test and document that it’s defective for me. Not to mention I was able to finally buy a vortex Viper and do back-and-forth testing showing it’s ridiculously obviously deffective. It’s just a time and money lost, and the extreme headache of dealing with this for a year and a half and still having it not be over.
Atleast I can finally shoot my f***ing rifle and enjoy it. Vortex for the win.
What a bummer man
Thats super chicken shit of NF!
I bought an NX8 a few months ago and it's been great, I felt good about supporting a company that's local to me.
Now I'm not so sure..
I had a vortex AMG go defective on me twice within 2 months of buying it, I contacted vortex and with no questions asked they sent me a return label then issued me a check for the full MSRP!
For that reason alone I'll continue to buy vortex
Scope nightmare! Good for you being so patient and not selling/dumping that POS scope on someone else.
i can’t imagine why they don’t just eat the scope, and have a happy customer and maintain a solid reputation of excellence.
Stories like this end up being business school case reviews. Organizational leadership failure? Is there a commitment to taking care of a defective unit for a customer? Or is the culture to just blow this off as a one off problem and ignore it. I’m sure their big competitors are reading this thread in disbelief, but I’m sure they’re snickering too. I’m sure this story also fuels the fire at smaller more agile companies who are eager to learn from the mistakes of others and be more responsive to customer concerns.
I have an NX8 that I like. I’m also in the market for another scope and ready to spend big bucks. Another nightforce fit my want list exactly. I’m gonna look elsewhere for now.
i can’t imagine why they don’t just eat the scope, and have a happy customer and maintain a solid reputation of excellence.
Stories like this end up being business school case reviews. Organizational leadership failure? Is there a commitment to taking care of a defective unit for a customer? Or is the culture to just blow this off as a one off problem and ignore it. I’m sure their big competitors are reading this thread in disbelief, but I’m sure they’re snickering too. I’m sure this story also fuels the fire at smaller more agile companies who are eager to learn from the mistakes of others and be more responsive to customer concerns.
I have an NX8 that I like. I’m also in the market for another scope and ready to spend big bucks. Another nightforce fit my want list exactly. I’m gonna look elsewhere for now.
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I had Elcan do the same thing for me. Trijicon repaired my ACOG and paid for shipping even though it was my fault for thinking my SCAR 17 wouldn't eat it.
NF is the worst customer service I've experienced. Skott was pretty rude and authoritarian with his attitude of "not our problem, no refund good luck" and blaming everyone else with a mounting issue. After doing a bunch of reading "mounting issue" seems to be their go to excuse. I wonder how many people actually remounted it without sending it in and had it work as opposed to how many sent it in to have NF secretly fix a screw up and send it back as "customer negligence." Not a good sign when a company immediately shadow bans you on social media for pointing out a problem politely without being an A hole about it and flaming them.
I could have just went to a local store, bought a new one, put the screwed up one in the box and just returned it. But after all this I'd rather see them held accountable. After all this time whats another couple of months of having $2400 tied up in a pretty door stop.
NF's reaction is very surprising.
As a NF owner, this is extremely disappointing to hear.
I watched a guy on here buy a Primary Arms scope and the guy he bought it from just threw it in a box. No packing whatsoever. No scope box. The box was 4x too big for the scope. It was trashed when it arrived. Guy contacted Primary Arms and they replaced it for him with no questions. Wasn't he original owner. Clearly abuse. Replaced it anyway.
I've been thinking about selling the NF for a ZCO. I think I'm going to move forward with that.
I watched a guy on here buy a Primary Arms scope and the guy he bought it from just threw it in a box. No packing whatsoever. No scope box. The box was 4x too big for the scope. It was trashed when it arrived. Guy contacted Primary Arms and they replaced it for him with no questions. Wasn't he original owner. Clearly abuse. Replaced it anyway.
I've been thinking about selling the NF for a ZCO. I think I'm going to move forward with that.
LOL. Still fiercely trying to get out of having to even refund it or replace it!!!!
Just received my court date and a several page response. They literally want to stick me with a useless optic. Claiming that this is still a mounting issue after all this is asinine.
Just received my court date and a several page response. They literally want to stick me with a useless optic. Claiming that this is still a mounting issue after all this is asinine.
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Hell of a story and really took the shine off of my opinion of Nightforce as a optics supplier.
@IdahoSpud - hope you stick it up their ass and break it off. Good luck.
When is the court date?
@IdahoSpud - hope you stick it up their ass and break it off. Good luck.
When is the court date?
Dec 9.
I just don’t get it. All this to avoid admitting they can get a dud? Avoid the embarrassment of having to admit they inspected an optic twice and sent it back as functioning properly?
Yes, its very dense on their part, will cost them money and damage to their reputation among consumers, and I suspect you have a very good case and will stick it to them. Go for it, mate.
You might want to read the entire thread, @craigos
Some companies just cannot see the forest for the trees.....sounds like NF is one of them. It would have cost them almost next to nothing to just send you a replacement and then hopefully you would have given them some good press..... Now they deserve the bashing that they are getting in my opinion!
Good luck OP!
Good luck OP!
This sucks, was really thinking about taking advantage of the mil pricing and getting an Atacr. Now I’m glad I got a MK5HD instead. I just don’t get it. It literally wouldn’t take them anything to make this right but they choose to stand their ground for what? Bad business decision. I hope they do the right thing before this goes to court.
Watch me get progressively more intoxicated while going full Karen on NightForce. Rough draft. If you're not going to read the whole thread watch this for a synopsis before jumping to conclusions.
If your day job doesn't work out you need to become a full time youtuber.
That was fucking great
Good luck in court and keep us posted
That was fucking great
Good luck in court and keep us posted
I've been on the fence between a NF ATACR 1-8 and the Vortex Gen 3 1-10. Ordered the Vortex yesterday after reading up on this thread.
Things break, how you handle issues is what matters.
Things break, how you handle issues is what matters.
I'm glad you enjoyed my stupid humorIf your day job doesn't work out you need to become a full time youtuber.
That was fucking great
Good luck in court and keep us posted
I have a semi decent Youtube channel with 14,000 subscribers that made me about $10,000.00 in ad revenue. The final edit after court goes there.
What a fuckaround.
Hope you get some justice.
Would have been a better option for them to fix or replace.
Best of luck.
Hope you get some justice.
Would have been a better option for them to fix or replace.
Best of luck.
Bro do it!!! I promise you’ll be glad you did. It’s life changing forsure!
Have you seen this?
I have been researching this very thing for months and was on the fence as well, but this makes it clear that the vortex is the way to go.
I was at my local gun shop the other week.
A bloke came in with a failed Vortex Viper.
One call to the distributor, they upgraded his scope right there.
Bore sighted his new scope, he was happy as can be.
That's service.
A bloke came in with a failed Vortex Viper.
One call to the distributor, they upgraded his scope right there.
Bore sighted his new scope, he was happy as can be.
That's service.
Banned from LRH again for sharing this video
Not surprised, they banned 50% of their contributing members for arguing with a sponsor at one point. I’ve had nothing but great performance with NF, and the only other thread I’ve seen besides this one about NF was actually a mounting issue and the guy was an idiot. When I Eventually do upgrade my NXS this thread is definitely pushing me towards Kahles.
It has been well documented of people sending their NF back for issues only to get it back with "no problem found" Amazingly after remounting it the problem is gone. They have been pulling that line for years.
Len's a fucking tool, he's all about selling advertisements and promoting moron group think
LRH is a total joke of a forum
This the kind of loading data you looking for over there?
Yea but your still a legg.
JK, my Combat Patch is 101st
Great Video dude... keep pressing till they make it right.
@IdahoSpud - dude. Just a tip on making videos. Drink cheap beer in a can or whisky in a mason jar. Much better redneck feel than a glass of box red.
Best wishes on sorting these turds out
Best wishes on sorting these turds out
That has to be a joke.
No, that’s the kind of shit that place breeds. If you let them know their wrong and they start fighting everyone gets banned. So now retarded stuff like that isn’t kept in check.
I have been a member of a few different forums SH is the only one I actually log onto anymore.......dumb shit like that gets stomped out real quick around here!
If so, they are keeping a VERY low profile! LOL
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