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I HAVE to swear.....

You know when you've spent hours leveling a scope?
Mounting, lapping,removing, remounting, re-lapping, removing again, checking eye relief, remounting, checking level ad-nauseum?

Well, I've been at it since 10 this morning & on the final screw (of 12) torqueing to manufacturer's specs the bastard thing stripped.

I want to hurl the rifle, scope, mounts & every damn shooting related object on the damn floor & cry.

On the up side, at least I can't return them for exchange. So I have the freaking JOY of spending another $100 on another set of mounts. Awesome.
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I HAVE to swear.....

You know when you've spent hours leveling a scope?
Mounting, lapping,removing, remounting, re-lapping, removing again, checking eye relief, remounting, checking level ad-nauseum?

Well, I've been at it since 10 this morning & on the final screw (of 12) torqueing to manufacturer's specs the bastard thing stripped.

I want to hurl the rifle, scope, mounts & every damn shooting related object on the damn floor & cry.

On the up side, at least I can't return them for exchange. So I have the freaking JOY of spending another $100 on another set of mounts. Awesome.

 

I haven't had that happen, but I can still feel your pain. I'd be just as mad. Sorry to hear that.

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Yessir. I had it set to 20in/lb, as per Burris specs & it ripped out the very last cap screw.
Burris won't do a thing because I lapped the rings, therefore it's my fault.
Never had this problem before with any other rings or mounts.
Oh well, Seekins here I come!
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Man that sucks.  Have you ever purposefully mounted a scope offset and then gone to the range to see how much impact it has on scope tracking at say 100 meters?

 

Sounds like an interesting experiment to me.  If there is any interest in this I will be doing the scope mount and zero thing soon.  

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Yessir. I had it set to 20in/lb, as per Burris specs & it ripped out the very last cap screw.
Burris won't do a thing because I lapped the rings, therefore it's my fault.
Never had this problem before with any other rings or mounts.
Oh well, Seekins here I come!

 

I figured it was a PEPR. I use the specs suggested by the Fat Wrench. I'm betting money that the mount hand a problem out of the box. Good lesson learned. Put your rings together and torque them down (without the optic) before you start lapping. That's something I would have never thought to do, but will in the future.

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