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Bad Super Sniper box test!!! |
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Horsemany ![]() Optics Journeyman ![]() ![]() Joined: February/28/2008 Location: Nebraska Status: Offline Points: 643 |
Was the box square?
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Rancid Coolaid ![]() Optics Jedi Master ![]() ![]() Joined: January/19/2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8412 |
Did your rounds group, just in the wrong place?
And, if I recall, you were 6 inches out at 600 yards and are now 2 inches out at 100 yards, is that correct? Do you, by any chance, have a picture of the target? There is a great warranty on the scope, if there is a problem, SWFA will make it right. |
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data."
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RONK ![]() Optics Master Extraordinaire ![]() ![]() Joined: April/05/2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3199 |
Well, in another thread in the reloading forum, he mentioned getting consistent 1/2 minute groups, so I'm thinking he shot well at 100 yards, but with wind and mirage probably not so well at 600.
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Black Squirrel ![]() Optics GrassHopper ![]() ![]() Joined: January/16/2006 Status: Offline Points: 39 |
1 MOA = 1.047" at 100 yards.
If you dial in 15moa, that's 15 x 1.047 = 15.705" Given that, you are not 2" off, but 1.3" Be sure that you are measuring from the center of the groups. MOA box test measured in inches at 100 yards will always print groups further in all corners/directions. Hence, a bigger box because MOA is not exactly 1" One last factor, you 100% sure it's exactly 100 yards? Not 105, or maybe a 100 meters? Most ranges are not exact. MOA difference plus small shooting at slightly over 100 yards can equate to the 1.3" difference in overall box size you are experiencing. If you're measuring the groups correctly, and are at a proven 100 yards, then I'd say the scope is not tracking correctly. That said, when scopes fail to track correctly, they usually give erratic results. Not enlarged, but consistent results like yours. |
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Horsemany ![]() Optics Journeyman ![]() ![]() Joined: February/28/2008 Location: Nebraska Status: Offline Points: 643 |
I think the bigger picture is he has a scope that doesn't track as it should. It may or may not be "a huge deal" to him or prospective buyers. My SS20x did not track accurately either, but it was consistent. THat's why I'd like to know if it made a square box or not. I could live with adjustments that were not according to the graduations but an out of square box is bad juju. I no longer own a SS.
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RONK ![]() Optics Master Extraordinaire ![]() ![]() Joined: April/05/2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3199 |
http://www.opticstalk.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=16501
and this one:
A lot of reading, but addresses some of the issues we are discussing.
The first link is my initial review of the scope, the second is by Nimzoblanca and is dead-linked to supporting threads, including my review. and a followup review I can't locate, in which I note the actual click movement I got from my test after taking the target home, measuring it and running the calculations.
The first post by Nimzoblanca in his thread is the most relevant one to this discussion if you don't feel like reading three pages of text. Edited by RONK - August/10/2009 at 15:49 |
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Horsemany ![]() Optics Journeyman ![]() ![]() Joined: February/28/2008 Location: Nebraska Status: Offline Points: 643 |
Good reading RONK. Mine had larger than 1/4moa clicks as well. It's been a while....I don't remember how far off it was. I may dig out those old box tests later.
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RONK ![]() Optics Master Extraordinaire ![]() ![]() Joined: April/05/2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3199 |
My review would have been better if I had measured it up right away and posted the results in the original thread. At the time, I was only concerned with it returning to the original zero after a long trip around the drafting paper sheet, which it did splendidly; actually punching out the push-pin aiming point with the second or third shot of the very last five-shot group.
It was only later that I realized the clicks were actually yielding a bit more than spec'd.
I noted it somewhere, but can't find it. It may be in Monster's thread in the same forum about the same time. If I recall correctly, I got .275 Minutes per click.
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sniper13 ![]() Optics Apprentice ![]() ![]() Joined: April/26/2009 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 145 |
OK...let me clear up all the details...the box is perfectly square, it had 17 inch sides which means it is 2 moa off of a 15 moa test, my biggest group is approx 3/8" so the measurements are pretty well on.......@ 600 I had to cut the moa in half to put it where I wanted it to go, this is an approximate, though this is irrelevent the fact is it isnt right....their wasnt any wind to speak of and sure wasnt any mirage.... the two groups that showed me this were right at 4". However I contacted SWFA and explained this to a tech. and no questions asked he said send it in and we will exchange it for a new one ( now that is a stand up company!!!). So my problem is solved, but I still dont understand why it was doing this, I really dont understand the internal makeup of optics.....if any one can explain this to me, please feel free...THANKS
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pulling a trigger is easy....hitting your mark is intelligence
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sniper13 ![]() Optics Apprentice ![]() ![]() Joined: April/26/2009 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 145 |
OH....and when 1 shot matters....this is very important I think...it is definately the difference in a kill and a miss at 600 or farther.
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pulling a trigger is easy....hitting your mark is intelligence
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Rancid Coolaid ![]() Optics Jedi Master ![]() ![]() Joined: January/19/2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8412 |
I agree. If anything, this punctuates the need to know where your bullet is going, not just zero at 100 yards and run a ballistics program and think that it says 11 clicks for 300 so it is 11 clicks to dead-nutz at 300. Never take a shot on game that you do not have a zero on for that load, that scope, and that rifle (in similar conditions.) Anything else is asking for trouble and, at long range, is poor hunting ethics. As I said previously, Chris will stand behind his stuff. Let us know how the next one tracks. |
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The plural of "anecdote" is not "data."
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sniper13 ![]() Optics Apprentice ![]() ![]() Joined: April/26/2009 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 145 |
I definately will Rancid I think we will be ok....like I said they definately took care of me and this situation.
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pulling a trigger is easy....hitting your mark is intelligence
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RONK ![]() Optics Master Extraordinaire ![]() ![]() Joined: April/05/2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3199 |
Again, that doesn't make any sense based on your results at 100. Are you SURE you're shooting 600 yards?
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cheaptrick ![]() MODERATOR ![]() ![]() Joined: September/27/2004 Location: South Carolina Status: Offline Points: 20848 |
Are you feeling or audibly hearing the clicks? The turret set screws are snugged?
Sorry if this was asked already, I'm on a blackberry. |
If at first you don't secede...try..try again.
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Mike McDonald ![]() Optics Journeyman ![]() Joined: September/01/2004 Status: Offline Points: 739 |
I would really, really, really love to put this particular scope on one of my rifles for a weekend.
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sniper13 ![]() Optics Apprentice ![]() ![]() Joined: April/26/2009 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 145 |
Yes it is 600y flat ground measured with a wheel...and no it does not make sense that is my point, Ronk I wish you could explain this to me....mike I would love to have sent it to ya but already sent to swfa for return.
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sniper13 ![]() Optics Apprentice ![]() ![]() Joined: April/26/2009 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 145 |
OH...cheap it is clickin audibly and I feel it...I just dont understand...
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pulling a trigger is easy....hitting your mark is intelligence
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cheaptrick ![]() MODERATOR ![]() ![]() Joined: September/27/2004 Location: South Carolina Status: Offline Points: 20848 |
Sending the scope to SWFA won't keep Mr. Mike's hands off it, I assure you.
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If at first you don't secede...try..try again.
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billyburl2 ![]() Optics Master Extraordinaire ![]() ![]() Joined: January/08/2009 Location: Cottonwood, AZ Status: Offline Points: 3972 |
sh*t,I wish I could put Mike on my rifle! Or have at least tell me what I am doing wrong!
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If it is tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
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RONK ![]() Optics Master Extraordinaire ![]() ![]() Joined: April/05/2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3199 |
Oh, I wish you could too, Mike!
Mr. Chris could you make this happen somehow, please?
I think the results would answer a lot of interesting questions...
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3_tens ![]() Optics Jedi Knight ![]() ![]() Joined: January/08/2007 Location: Oklahoma Status: Offline Points: 7476 |
I wish I could see good enough to hit within 2" at 600 yds. Much less shoot that good. This is all far above my current ability.
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Folks ain't got a sense of humor no more. They don't laugh they just get sore.
Need to follow the rules. Just hard to determine which set of rules to follow Now the rules have changed again. |
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Trays 7940 ![]() Optics Master ![]() ![]() Joined: August/09/2009 Location: Texas Status: Offline Points: 1149 |
Being new to this forum and not wanting to overstep my current bounds, I do want to say, I agree with 3_tens. I hope to be able to shoot that well some day. I think Iam going to try and shoot a box this weekend and test my gained knowledge from this discussion. I have a SS 16x and Iam interested in seeing what it will do. This is good stuff!
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Trays 7940 ![]() Optics Master ![]() ![]() Joined: August/09/2009 Location: Texas Status: Offline Points: 1149 |
Ok, I do have one question and please excuse me if it has been asked before.
I ran through the number of shots fired on the box test and I believe it will be 14 rounds.
How long do you wait between rounds?
Are we talking cold bore shots, or one after the other?
I have been very interested in this since getting involved in prescion shooting.
I see guys at the range, all the time, firing one round after the other, heating up their barrels and getting crappy groups, then they start adjusting scopes and things get really bad. They end up leaving, pissed at everything.
When I do this test, how is the best way to shoot it?
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