Has there been any other ep5 that have had tracking issues. Got mine Saturday got it mounted today zeroed at 25 then moved to 100 for my final zero and it's not even on the paper. Bring it back to 25 and it's dead on my elevation from 25 to 100 is 1.6 and even if I don't adjust it still doesn't hit the paper. Everything on my rifle is torqued down and I know this is good load. When I adjust the turret the reticle moves. This is boggling my mind
Arken ep5...
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Email, return and get a new one
I believe they have had some QC issues but seem to go above and beyond to make it right. Don’t have one myself but my brother does, no issues thus far.
I believe they have had some QC issues but seem to go above and beyond to make it right. Don’t have one myself but my brother does, no issues thus far.
Ok I'll bite if he zeroed at 25 yards why would moving the target to the 100 yard line make him 30 inches high?
Try to hold the elevation value instead of dialing and see where it lands.
Just pop your barreled action out of your chassis and bore sight it.
Easy peasy.
OR, as pointed out above, put one into the berm at 100 and see where it lands.
Even easier, peasier...
Might wana look into making a berm. 40 acres is not nearly enough land for a ricochet to slow down and not still be deadly.
If it makes it through those trees it's doing something
Trees are concealment not cover And you having to be told some of the things you are being told to sight in a rifle are concerning. So being I don’t know you or your location, my suggestion Errors on the side of caution.
This is what I do. A 5 ft tall piece. Start at 25 and then Move out to 50 or 100 with the cardboard.
if neither dialing nor holding 1.6mil doesn't work to get on paper i highly doubt it's the scope
are 25y and 100y confirmed accurate? not 20y and 120y that would cause it to just slip off paper?
throw the burris back on. zero the same way at 25 then 100. then do the arken again?
are 25y and 100y confirmed accurate? not 20y and 120y that would cause it to just slip off paper?
throw the burris back on. zero the same way at 25 then 100. then do the arken again?
Just from personal experience and the fact the miss is larger than his entire target, the base angle is larger than the target and no splash under the target was noted.
We still don't know how high his scope is or anything else.
147 Hornady? Every time I have had bullets explode, it wasn't all of them.
No I stop shooting those after I had one turn to dust about 20 yards out of the tube when I had a shot lined up on a very fat doe 2 years ago. I've got about 10 of them left and they get used for foulers
I dropped mine off the end of my barrel and it's all jacked up now lol
@Birddog6424 didn't the XTRII come set up 20MOA below mechanical zero or center adjustment or however one would say it?
uses the woods as a backstop, stumped by boresighting, and can't hit paper at 100- glad we're not neighbors 
So then, pop the BA out of the chassis. It's two screws.
Lay it on a bag. Set a target out at 100yds with a 2×2" square/diamond/triangle/ circle of bright colored tape on it.
Do the bore sighting and do it carefully. (You will probably have to loosen your zero stop)
You should now be less than 3" away from actual impact. Probably closer....
Put your action screws back in, torque them and put two on paper. Adjust zero and have fun.
BTW, don't forget to reset your turrets and your zero stop.
Just got one day before yesterday I hope I have better luck than what I’m reading about
When you shoot a 338
At this point, I'm pretty sure it's not the scope having the issues... JMO...
And if it is his scope, it has a tracking guarantee and a lifetime warranty. Their CS has been excellent for me when I had to send back my brand new (first run) EP5 last year due to glass issues. They never blinked an eye. Sent me a Return label, and even shipped out the new one before the old arrived back to them, because I provided them with a tracking number after I shipped the old one back to them. They even opened the replacement scope and thoroughly checked it out before shipping it to me to ensure it was perfect. Can't get much better CS than that.
But if the OP is being this difficult with us about bore sighting his rifle and not wanting to exert the effort to remove 2 action screws, or simply thinking large enough to get a big piece of cardboard to see where it's actually impacting, and test this theory correctly, then I have a hard time believing the story about them brushing him off and just telling him to "boresight it at 100 yards". I'm thinking this is operator error.
