I'm new to scope mounting so please bear with me.
I've mounted a few scopes on 22 rifles with good results. A couple of Ruger 10/22, 10/22 Target, Marlin 882, and Remington 552. All scopes were assemble, bore sighted, and zeroed at 50 yards. All work fine.
Now I come to my latest rifle, a Marlin 336SS. I purchased two piece Weaver mounts and Quad Lock Weaver Rings. I assembled these and all appeared fine.
I placed the Bushnell 4200 3-9x40 scope on the rings and it fit perfectly. I alligned the reticle, and carefully tightened the screws on the quad locks gently in crosswise fashion.
When I went to bore sight the scope I found I ran out of windage adjustment before I got the reticle to the center.
I ran the windage adjustment from side to side to establish its maximum adjustments, centered the adjustment and tried again with the same results.
I reversed the mounts and reasssembled the scope as described above with similar results Except I ran ou of adjustment on the other side. IOW's I ran out of left adjustment with the mounts one way and ran out of right adjustment when I reversed the mounts.
I assumed I had a bad set of mounts so I purchased a set of see-thru Weaver mounts to test this theory, but the results were the same.
So I'm left with the conclusion the screw holes are not correct. Am I confused with this?
It is a brand new gun just purchased a week ago so It can be returned.
What other options do I have? Would a one piece mount with twist in rings thaat have a windage adjustment at the back work here? As I said I don't have any experience with this type of mount.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Gary
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