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    Posted: March/21/2008 at 23:42
Ok dont beat me up too bad but I bought a pine ridge 6-18-44 sf for my 204 encore ( I had some gift cards that I needed to burn and didnt want to spend alot on the scope for the 204 a story for another day)  so I went to mount it using my warne maxima rings and I could not turn the side focus nob.  I know that pine ridge is not the best scope but is this a trait of all side focus scopes?  I need a new scope for my new 257 and was checking out the nikons but dont want to encounter this issue.
 
I was able to use some old school weaver rings and all was fine the warnes actually wrinled the tube a little.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Tip69 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March/22/2008 at 16:28
just to clarify........ are you saying that with the Warne rings, you could not turn the side focus knob but with the Weaver rings you were able to?
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that is correct the weaver ones are the ones with the screws on one side and a strap over style
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote 3_tens Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March/22/2008 at 18:42
You had them to tight. I think Warne has a torque driver that should be used when mounting their rings.
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I was using the torque driver so that should not have been the problem
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one ring might have been kicked sideways and created enuff stress to the tube to lock the focus down to where it wouldn't move. I had this happen one time and the rigs was out of aline just ATAD.  ATAD is a technical term. not saying you had it to tight just the angle from the ring made it that way when you locked it down.

 
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I suppose that could be true but I used 2 different sets of rings maybe even 3 it has been a while all warne and it was on my encore so it was a one piece base so the error tolerance was pretty minimal where as I was blaming the scope so I think I should be safe I may try some different rings next time though but I will also be using a higher quality scope.
 
I only got the pine ridge since the 204 will never see any extreme conditions and does not have recoil
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