I picked up a Vortex crossfire, 30mm IR, 6-24x50mm scope. I got it on Friday from SWFA and checked it out. Mounted it on my rifle, and ran through the paces with the laser bore-sighter to see what sort of interactions the elevation and windage had. The procedure is basically just put the boresighter in, aim it at the wall, and run the knobs through their paces looking for jumps or skips, and observing the interaction of the windage/elev adjustments.
So it turns out the top 30 MOA of elevation "clicked" on the turret, but failed to move the crosshairs. If I tapped the scope body pretty hard or jogged the windage knob half a turn and back, the crosshairs would slowly come up to where they should be. The last 15 MOA of up would "click" on the elevation knob but no amount of tapping or jogging the windage knobs would bring the crosshairs to where they should be.
Bummer, this is the 2nd new scope I've gotten in the past month with a significant defect. Both were fairly inexpensive optics for project or fun rifles, but by no means crap quality. Just some bad luck I guess. It does clearly illustrate the need to buy good top-end optics if you need to depend on them.
I'm sending it out on Monday to Vortex for warranty repair, just wanted to share my experience and see if anybody else has seen this happen, or has had a similar experience with Vortex optics? Vortex's reputation is pretty good, and I don't anticipate any problems with them making it right through the warranty service, their warranty is one of the best.
The rest of the scope seemed great, the glass is fairly bright up to about 18x, and not bad up to 24x. The AO and IR worked fine, and its a nice size and looks pretty good. If the turrets worked properly I'd be pretty thrilled with it, although the windage / elev seems to interact more than I'd care for. That's not a defect, just the way some scopes are.
So it turns out the top 30 MOA of elevation "clicked" on the turret, but failed to move the crosshairs. If I tapped the scope body pretty hard or jogged the windage knob half a turn and back, the crosshairs would slowly come up to where they should be. The last 15 MOA of up would "click" on the elevation knob but no amount of tapping or jogging the windage knobs would bring the crosshairs to where they should be.
Bummer, this is the 2nd new scope I've gotten in the past month with a significant defect. Both were fairly inexpensive optics for project or fun rifles, but by no means crap quality. Just some bad luck I guess. It does clearly illustrate the need to buy good top-end optics if you need to depend on them.
I'm sending it out on Monday to Vortex for warranty repair, just wanted to share my experience and see if anybody else has seen this happen, or has had a similar experience with Vortex optics? Vortex's reputation is pretty good, and I don't anticipate any problems with them making it right through the warranty service, their warranty is one of the best.
The rest of the scope seemed great, the glass is fairly bright up to about 18x, and not bad up to 24x. The AO and IR worked fine, and its a nice size and looks pretty good. If the turrets worked properly I'd be pretty thrilled with it, although the windage / elev seems to interact more than I'd care for. That's not a defect, just the way some scopes are.
