WestTX 25/06
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My daughter wanted to go deer hunting the last weekend of youth season, so against my better judgment, I took my SY off and put a daytime scope on the rifle. Last night was calm wind wise, so I remounted my SY and went to confirm zero.
All shots were at 100 yards from my high rack chair. This isn’t a perfect bench rest setup, but the groups are good so I don’t think any of this is shooter or gun related. I circled and numbered each shot group after adjusting windage or elevation with notes on each adjustment (see photo).
My original zero, before taking the scope off, was dead center of the bottom of a hand warmer at the same distance with the same shooting method. My first two shots were high right quite a bit. I’ve known the mount doesn’t return to zero for me, so while annoying, this wasn’t a surprise.
I adjusted two clicks left on base mag for my next shot. It moved way left. At this point I decided to start shooting at least two shots each group to make sure my shooting wasn’t the problem. The picture and notes on the target tell the story pretty well.
Eye opening experience. Sometimes it moved way too much, sometimes it barely moved at all. Mixed bag and no clue what was going to happen next.
I really hesitated to post this, but with as much money as we all invest in thermal hunting, I feel like it would be a disservice to our little community to not raise a flag when I see one. Before I purchased this scope, I was told Bering put accuracy at a premium. It seems like if that was the case a simple tracking test before sending them out the door would be a good quality control measure they should implement.
I’ve now got a scope that:
A) doesn’t return to zero when remounted
B) doesn’t track correctly when I’m trying to re zero it
That’s not a good combo.
Can I kill coyotes with it? Yes, I’ve killed a lot. Does it have a great image? Yeah it’s pretty dang good. Does it shoot good groups? Yes, best I’ve seen so far out of my three thermals.. It’s just a pain in the rear to deal with if I ever have to take it off the rifle and for the money we are all spending on this stuff, that shouldn’t be an issue. I’ve decided to return it to Bering, test the heck out of whatever they send me back, and if it doesn’t work I’ll move on to something else next year.
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All shots were at 100 yards from my high rack chair. This isn’t a perfect bench rest setup, but the groups are good so I don’t think any of this is shooter or gun related. I circled and numbered each shot group after adjusting windage or elevation with notes on each adjustment (see photo).
My original zero, before taking the scope off, was dead center of the bottom of a hand warmer at the same distance with the same shooting method. My first two shots were high right quite a bit. I’ve known the mount doesn’t return to zero for me, so while annoying, this wasn’t a surprise.
I adjusted two clicks left on base mag for my next shot. It moved way left. At this point I decided to start shooting at least two shots each group to make sure my shooting wasn’t the problem. The picture and notes on the target tell the story pretty well.
Eye opening experience. Sometimes it moved way too much, sometimes it barely moved at all. Mixed bag and no clue what was going to happen next.
I really hesitated to post this, but with as much money as we all invest in thermal hunting, I feel like it would be a disservice to our little community to not raise a flag when I see one. Before I purchased this scope, I was told Bering put accuracy at a premium. It seems like if that was the case a simple tracking test before sending them out the door would be a good quality control measure they should implement.
I’ve now got a scope that:
A) doesn’t return to zero when remounted
B) doesn’t track correctly when I’m trying to re zero it
That’s not a good combo.
Can I kill coyotes with it? Yes, I’ve killed a lot. Does it have a great image? Yeah it’s pretty dang good. Does it shoot good groups? Yes, best I’ve seen so far out of my three thermals.. It’s just a pain in the rear to deal with if I ever have to take it off the rifle and for the money we are all spending on this stuff, that shouldn’t be an issue. I’ve decided to return it to Bering, test the heck out of whatever they send me back, and if it doesn’t work I’ll move on to something else next year.
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