Thread: Unpleasant surprises when removing a scope

Originally Posted by sneeze

With a few exceptions scope tubes are alloy and if you tighten them up enough they will crush. Some mounts will let you get away with a bit of overtightning others will bite you in the arse. I use a W&B torque wrench and use 15 ish inch pounds max but got lazy a whie ago and crushed a vortex diamondback. Verticle split rings are the worst but still my fault. Best thing was I owned up and vortex just repalced the scope totally free, not even charging for freight.

That's bloody good service!

um Im ham fisted and just crushed your scope

No worries we will give you another as long as you are more careful in the future.

Something like that?

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