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Good morning everybody, figured I would update this thread after 7 or 8 months of time passing.
The scope dialed right in and I ran it for a few months without issue. Then one day, I pulled it out of the safe to go shooting after about a month hiatus. Just wanted to put some rounds down range before I took the rifle deer hunting. I was surprised to see what I refer to as a "spiderweb crack" that went from about the 2 o'clock position down and left across one of the internal lenses of the scope. The rifle had been sitting in the safe with nobody but me accessing the safe, and the safe hadn't been opened in about 4 weeks. It didn't have the issue when I put the gun in there in the first place, talk about bizarre. All I can figure is that it had a small imperfection from the factory that was outside the FOV that slowly expanded across the whole view with time. I warrantied it, and got rid of the rifle it was on. When I got the warranty replacement, the gun's accuracy went to absolute crap. 2 scopes/mounts/rings and a new stock later, the rifle is gone now and the scope sits in my closet unused.
Dad might want it for a sheep rifle build he's looking at doing, so we are thinking we will warranty it and try it out on his upcoming carbon barrel 6.5 creedmoor, because at this point, there's a mental block that I'm having a hard time getting over with the VX5's, and I don't think I have the mental fortitude to try a third one out. It blew my mind that I went 0/2 on the $1k scopes from Leupold, but that's exactly what happened. Totally unexpected.
The scope dialed right in and I ran it for a few months without issue. Then one day, I pulled it out of the safe to go shooting after about a month hiatus. Just wanted to put some rounds down range before I took the rifle deer hunting. I was surprised to see what I refer to as a "spiderweb crack" that went from about the 2 o'clock position down and left across one of the internal lenses of the scope. The rifle had been sitting in the safe with nobody but me accessing the safe, and the safe hadn't been opened in about 4 weeks. It didn't have the issue when I put the gun in there in the first place, talk about bizarre. All I can figure is that it had a small imperfection from the factory that was outside the FOV that slowly expanded across the whole view with time. I warrantied it, and got rid of the rifle it was on. When I got the warranty replacement, the gun's accuracy went to absolute crap. 2 scopes/mounts/rings and a new stock later, the rifle is gone now and the scope sits in my closet unused.
Dad might want it for a sheep rifle build he's looking at doing, so we are thinking we will warranty it and try it out on his upcoming carbon barrel 6.5 creedmoor, because at this point, there's a mental block that I'm having a hard time getting over with the VX5's, and I don't think I have the mental fortitude to try a third one out. It blew my mind that I went 0/2 on the $1k scopes from Leupold, but that's exactly what happened. Totally unexpected.
