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Anyone ever have their entire turret come unscrewed from their tube when taking the cap off?

I would post a photo but can't figure out how to copy
From photo bucket on
my phone

Now that's a new one on me. Like they say, "anything one man can make, another can break...." E

Yeah, when I was younger I bought a cheap azz bushnell and that happened. What scope you running??? Don't say leupy either

VX3, 6.5-20





sorry about the poor quality photograph.

There's the problem RIGHT there in the pic, you are shooting a Wildcat and the vibration from high pressure loads did it

22-250 AI? Dasher?

6.5-284??? Wildcat???

i have had the leupold green ring bino'w twist off like that! Leupold replaced them with the same and also stated "it's not a gold ring"
is yours gold ring?

Well, at least it wasn't a 'cheap azz Bushnell!'

That ain't good.

Always wondered what the inside of a turret housing looked like.

The edges of the turret still in the scope look jagged like someone might have given her a good twist.

Ouch..... Atleast they will probably fix it for free.

bt/dt. Thus my love for m1's.

Only with a Burris Signature.

Must be a bad day for turrets....the elevation turret on my Swarovoski came off today too. See my post below.

Lefty C

I had a leupold do the same thing a couple years ago,they fixed it no problem.

Maybe you could have Leupold install some of their friction turrets..

Yep. VX3 pistol scope. This was after I sent it in because the damned thing didn't track/change POI correctly and the adjustments "caught up" after 2 weeks waiting for deer season. I sent it in for repair, got it back, went to take the elevation turret off after I got it out of the box and the damned thing came off in my hand. Your purging is shot, send it back to Leupold.

Oh, it's going back. I just put a rifle together for my hunting buddy and he put this scope on it for our hunt that starts Friday. Went to bore sight it and the cap was tight. Gave a little twist and out came the whole guts. Maybe they should use lok tite or something! Had to swap out a a 4.5-14 at the last minute.

Just never seen nor heard of this happening before-especially on a nice scope.

Dennis a pal had it happen on a 1.5-5X Leupold.Not sure if it was a just defective as it came, or 300 rounds from a light 375H&H killed it...either way, it happened.

JMHO, but this sort of stuff is really annoying....for the money these scopes cost,this sort of stuff simply should not be happening.....