Rifle Scopes Swapping rifle scopes

[Desert Rat]

Does anyone have any experience swapping out rifle scopes on their rifle? Basically what I’m asking is I would like to swap back-and-forth two of my rifle scopes on two different rifles. My question is if I mark the rail space and stick to that can I expect any impact shift? Thanks in advance

 

[c ward]

Possible yes , giant pain in the ass yes . You will need to re zero everytime you switch rifles and more likely than not the eye relief between them will be different and the scope will need moved in the rings .

 

[Steel head]

I tried it.
It’s a pain in the ass.

 

[Desert Rat]

Thanks y’all! Yeah I will def take y’all’s advice! Sounds like a no go

 

[Boltyboi]

With good mounts, using a torque wrench, and putting it back into the same slot each time, you can USUALLY expect return to zero. But there are a ton of reasons why this is a pain in the dick. The scope must have one rifle which is the 'master' and the others are a recorded number of clicks off from that. Have fun, and hope you take excellent notes, and hope you don't have a brain fart and forget how the erectors move, and understand exactly how to manipulate the zerostop in a way it isn't really designed to be used, and THEN you get to rewrite/memorize all your adjustments every time you need to change zero on the master rifle. Fun stuff. It also eats up a lot of time on the range dicking around at the range and presents plenty of opportunity for thousands of dollars of optics and rifles to go tumbling to the concrete as you try and play gunsmith at the firing line.

Oh yeah, each time you do it you arent 100% sure you kept zero. So you have to confirm. And if you didn't, and have to fix fix that, guess who gets to go theough the above process again?

Can you tell I'm a fan?

 

[Cuda-dude]

For me the scope gets married to the rifle and then their will be no wandering- until you’re ready for a new scope. Just like life.

 

[Bender]

Tell the old lady you’re buying a scope.

 

[theLBC]

it depends on how well the mount indexes on the rail.
bobro qd mounts have a patented system that is like a press fit (you cannot wiggle it) and they claim in can be removed and mounted with minimal poi shift.
there are some comparisons that bear this out (most repeatable mount). ime, it is as advertised on the dual lever mount.
they are not cheap, but they do give discounts for LE/MIL.
this would be my only suggestion if you wanted to swap back and forth without having to zero each time.
although both rifles probably won't have the same zero, the difference between them should be the same each time.

A Guide to Quick-Detach Scope Mounts

Mount ’Em Up

www.recoilweb.com

	Zero Shift (MOA)
ADM	0.135
Alamo	0.027
Bobro	0.016
Burris	0.223
GDI	0.045
GG&G	0.043
LaRue	0.076
PRI	0.049

 

[Steel head]

Tell the old lady you’re buying a scope.

 

[Boltyboi]

Tell the old lady you’re buying a scope.

Bender, man. You've got it backwards. You just pray she cant distinguish between the random black tubes in the safe.

 

[JCHayes]

Tell the old lady you’re buying a scope.

Or, just buy it and don't tell her.

 

[JCHayes]

I would just buy another scope and be done with it.