Help me out... I rattled another nx8

[Wrench]

I agree. Have you tried the cushioned scabbards?
Crazy but I had a Japanese Armsport scope on a Remington 742 that rode the rack of a 91 trx300 for almost 10 years without blowing.

This was in a koplin gun boot with a padded sleeve. The boot may be worse than just racks as being elevated it gets to oscillating pretty bad.

 

[Matt5266]

Id sell that machine first, I can only imagine what it's doing to your spine.

 

[Fowl Play]

I rattled another nx8 and I'm low on confidence now. I am considering a maven but would like to see an actual set of images at a target of any kind that are taken at the same time/place as another scope....preferably a tenmile, lrhs, zeiss, nx8, mark5 or atacr so I can get an idea of what I should expect.

I have had horrible luck finding anything other than my bushnells that can survive the ride on my ol' trx300 racks.

I'm thinking of selling off all of my nightforce scopes if the maven will be as tough as the bushnell.

I am running plans in my head to build a test bench that mimics the ride in my racks to be able to see if a scope will survive. The ride in my racks was bad and the koplin case looks like a sewing machine when I am bombing around.

When you say rattled, what do you mean? Lost zero, broke the scope?

How do you know it’s not the scope mounts?

 

[BRTreedogs]

How tight does the rifle fit in the gun boot?
Can’t it bang around in there?

I’ve always thought that looks like the most terrible way to transport a rifle.

I bolted a harbor freight rifle case across the front rack. My quad has rack extensions and I used little u bolts and cut them off and ground them down best I could.

And the rifle is in foam and can’t bang around.

 

[Wrench]

When you say rattled, what do you mean? Lost zero, broke the scope?

How do you know it’s not the scope mounts?

Both.

I suspect it's not the mounts when it does this....

 

[Balderdash]

How tight does the rifle fit in the gun boot?
Can’t it bang around in there?

I’ve always thought that looks like the most terrible way to transport a rifle.

I bolted a harbor freight rifle case across the front rack. My quad has rack extensions and I used little u bolts and cut them off and ground them down best I could.

And the rifle is in foam and can’t bang around.

I've ran a couple of Kolpin gun boots for near 30 years. Ive never used the actual mounting hardware for them. Only strap them to a rack of an ATV or tossed them in the back of a PU or UTV. Have had a few scopes go wonky, but based on them giving up the ghost while I was shooting, I figured it was more recoil than rattling around, but my rigs certainly do their share of bouncing about on rough roads.