A couple months ago I bought a used remington 700. When I bought the gun it had a 0 MOA 1-piece scope base on it. I had a bushnell elite 3200 that I put on it and got it zero'd with no problem, it was on paper right off the bat and zero'd within a few clicks.
Not too long after I bought a new scope, rings, base and stock for it.
I bought a Vortex Viper 6.5-20x50, weaver 6-hole tactical low rings, and a B&C A2 stock.
I put it all together and when I had a chance I went to the range to zero the scope. Well after a good 45 rounds I finally got it on paper at 100 yards and was able to get it zero'd after that but something didn't seem right. Looking at the windage and elevation knobs it looked like the reticle was adjusted more to the right and down and counting the number of clicks it was confirmed, I only had 55 clicks up (bullet impact up) and 181 down available with a 20 MOA base! The windage was also way off with 185 clicks to the left and 45 to the right.
I sent the scope off to Vortex for them to repair it and according to their invoice they sent me back a brand new one so I mounted it up and took it out this weekend and I am still having the problem. I had even put the 0 MOA base back on the rifle to eliminate that as the problem but when I was done zeroing it I still only had about 1 turn of elevation up on the knob and over 3 down available and the windage is still way off as well.
When I got home I took my scope and mounted it on my dad's R700 (also has an EGW 20 MOA base) and bore-sighted it by eyeballing down the bore on a street sign and mounted on his gun with the 20 MOA base I zero'd the elevation and was pretty much centered in the adjustment range while the windage was still way off.
Assuming that Vortex didn't send me back the same scope, I cannot figure out for the life of me what the problem is. I don't think it is the rings because I can't see anything that would cause them to be off and I tried changing the rings around (as in swapping them front to back and rotating them 180 degrees) but the scope stayed zero'd on the same point.
Not too long after I bought a new scope, rings, base and stock for it.
I bought a Vortex Viper 6.5-20x50, weaver 6-hole tactical low rings, and a B&C A2 stock.
I put it all together and when I had a chance I went to the range to zero the scope. Well after a good 45 rounds I finally got it on paper at 100 yards and was able to get it zero'd after that but something didn't seem right. Looking at the windage and elevation knobs it looked like the reticle was adjusted more to the right and down and counting the number of clicks it was confirmed, I only had 55 clicks up (bullet impact up) and 181 down available with a 20 MOA base! The windage was also way off with 185 clicks to the left and 45 to the right.
I sent the scope off to Vortex for them to repair it and according to their invoice they sent me back a brand new one so I mounted it up and took it out this weekend and I am still having the problem. I had even put the 0 MOA base back on the rifle to eliminate that as the problem but when I was done zeroing it I still only had about 1 turn of elevation up on the knob and over 3 down available and the windage is still way off as well.
When I got home I took my scope and mounted it on my dad's R700 (also has an EGW 20 MOA base) and bore-sighted it by eyeballing down the bore on a street sign and mounted on his gun with the 20 MOA base I zero'd the elevation and was pretty much centered in the adjustment range while the windage was still way off.
Assuming that Vortex didn't send me back the same scope, I cannot figure out for the life of me what the problem is. I don't think it is the rings because I can't see anything that would cause them to be off and I tried changing the rings around (as in swapping them front to back and rotating them 180 degrees) but the scope stayed zero'd on the same point.