g.willikers said:
Betcha most scope failures are the result of damage rather than lack of quality.
I'm sure there are plenty out there.
I, however, can't recall a personal scope failure from abuse, neglect, or misuse; unless I was actually
trying to kill it. ...Because I don't abuse my tools.
Some family members have had incidents (knocking rifles over, dropping scopes, etc.). But I have not.
A lot of failures that I can recall were simply from recoil or parts failure.
Many developed wandering/jumping zeroes or suffered some kind of breakage in the erector assembly. (Most common failure, by far, with my Bushnells.)
A few had the reticle break (wire), or come loose (wire/etched).
I had one (Beaverton) Redfield, over the course of about 4 rounds of .30 WCF, somehow jam the erector hard left and down. (Repaired by Leupold.)
At least half a dozen Bushnells and Tascos lost their gas charge and seal, and fogged internally. (I think I had a Weaver that suffered the same fate.)
A handful of cheap/cheap
er scopes - I recall at least one each Burris, Bushnell, and Weaver - had lens or tube coatings peel, chip, or flake off inside the scope.
There were a Weaver and a Burris that suffered chipped internal lenses. Still held zero and functioned, but the image quality was ... shall we say,
compromised.
Two of the most spectacular and frightening failures I've seen (not my scopes) were lenses that broke loose internally and shattered the ocular lens in front of the shooter's eye during recoil. One was a Weaver. I believe the other was a Nikon. It seems counter-intuitive for the rear lens to be the one to shatter under recoil, but that was the result in both cases.
Luckily, both shooters had eye protection and the rifles were being tested, rather than in the field on a hunting trip.
dahermit said:
Any more questionable than a statement from someone who says he has owned and wrecked more scopes than the average person has seen in a gun store?
If you are wrecking that many scopes one can legitimately wonder if it is a matter of abuse rather than use. Aside from that, you seem to have taken an inordinately long time to "learn your lesson"...or were you just exaggerating on the number of cheap scopes you wrecked?
Underhanded assumptions and insinuation, my friend.
It's of no value here.
Don't bother discussing what was actually said, or asking in a friendly manner that might prompt me to explain why I have had so many scopes. Just attack the character.