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I suppose clicking past and returning to the desired position may work but on a good scope it isn't necessary......it the reason I posted this thread. There should not be any slop nor should the erector system hang up.
This isn't the first Leupold I have used that didn't track correctly. I expected it with the old friction style windage and elevation adjustments found on some Vari X IIs that cost under $300 but not on a newer VX-3 LR with the dual erector springs that comes with turrets that cost $1200.
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Not sure if I learned it from my Dad or read it somewhere but I have been following Gunzos procedures for as long as I can remember. Not only the turn through and then back method but we would also tap on the turrets with a penny or tiny brass hammer. This was when most scopes did not have click adjustments. When other shooters would watch us twisting and tapping they though it was some kind of weird ritual to make the rifle more accurate. I guess it was.
I hope more people sell their almost new scopes for being a quarter of an inch off. Keeps the prices lower. I always carry a brass hammer when I am hunting.
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Another round with the Leupold leap it appears...
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Google Search for Elimination of Backlash in a linear positioning mechanism.
It should be obvious that it is any screw thread not just your Leopold Scope.
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Not sure if I learned it from my Dad or read it somewhere but I have been following Gunzos procedures for as long as I can remember. Not only the turn through and then back method but we would also tap on the turrets with a penny or tiny brass hammer. This was when most scopes did not have click adjustments. When other shooters would watch us twisting and tapping they though it was some kind of weird ritual to make the rifle more accurate. I guess it was.
I hope more people sell their almost new scopes for being a quarter of an inch off. Keeps the prices lower. I always carry a brass hammer when I am hunting. Anybody else I would snicker at this, but with you I had to think about it ...
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Nightforce thinks backlash is something to be concerned about.... https://www.nightforceoptics.com/technology
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So, something other than the scope cause a POI change of 1/4" since sitting 8 months. And then 1 click of the dial stuck temporarily. Sounds like a major crisis.
I'd be pissed too. Or just not let OCD take over. One of those
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Before you started using it, did you run the turrets end-to-end a number of times as you were instructed?
If that is all it takes to "fix" a sticky Leupie, then it sure seems like an easy fix.
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No OCD here. Just observing characteristics of this scope on a reliable rifle. Meanwhile a $299 12x SWFA was asked to do the same movement and it did it with no hanging up or inaccuracy.
The Leupold reticle hung up, moved the requested total of 1/2" with second click THEN IT JUMPED BACK to where it should have gone originally with the first click. Each group shot were tiny clusters. Meanwhile the windage knob was still two clicks right. There is a reason why there are no Leupolds on my big game rifles......burned once during a coues wt hunt and a week before another coues hunt.
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