CV, Nikon will take good care of you. Drop me a note if I can be of any help to you in the return process. I'm sure they will replace it with a like model since your scope is no longer made. Please keep me in the loop to let me know how it goes for you. I do freelance Shooting Event's/PR for Nikon but I am not a Nikon employee. I do have the ear of some higher ups at Nikon and they take CS seriously.
Thanks for the offer, but I called CS line and explained the problem, and received a Service number. Customer rep seemed a little puzzled over the model of scope, and problem, but eventually settled on the fact that it will need to be sent in. I will be sending it in later this week. So far so good.
