Leupold Scope on the Daystate Regal

Funny story here, Some of you may know that I bought a Regal and had problems with it out of the box, so off it went to AOA. The rifle was sent back to me and a trigger adjustment was the problem. I was not going to mess with a brand new rifle and ruin my 3 year warranty. Well on with the story. I mounted the Leupold scope on the weapon and I start to dial things in. A little windy here today so I took this into consideration when some of my pellets were flying off my aiming point. At least I thought that at first.
I started to think that maybe this Regal is a bad one, as the pellets were going further away on every adjustment I made. I put the gun on the rest and scratching me head, I thought what the hell is going on. Now I never owned a Leupold scope in my life and the dials on the scope were backwards. Here the up and down was the left to right and the right to left is up and down. I could not believe it and I started to chuckle once I started to cut paper at 30 yards. 
I then came in and called Leupold and told them about it, I told the man that I thought you guys did things differently and had their adjustments different than other scopes. Well he started to laugh then and I was laughing. long story short he told me I can pop them off and change them but to get them to snap back in would be the problem. They do it with a press. I am not going to try and remove those caps on a 300 dollar plus scope. I am not sending it back until I remove the scope again as it is shooting great now. The team at AOA did a great job setting the gun up and it is a deadly weapon now. Maybe I can give the Marauder a break. Moral of the story, trust your rifle, not your accessories. I am writing this wondering if this happened to anyone on this forum or something as goofy as my scenario... Take it Lite.....Pete (A.B all the way).
 
"weatherby"Could also be that you have rotated the whole scope 90 degrees anti-clockwise.
In that case, your elevation turret is on the left side, and the windage is on top.

The windage turret is supposed to point to the right.
If that is the case and it may be, I am a idiot, But I am sure where it said up and down, it was moving left to right. If the scope is rotated incorrectly will this be the problem. The scope is shooting dead on now, Should I rotate it if I do have it messed up??? Another funny thing, I am wondering why the tech did not mention this when I called about the scope. I will check it after the boss gets up. Thanks for this point. I feel like a jerk now if that is my problem
 
Yes, that would be better. I never did have time to put my glasses on and see if its a "R" or "L" when hunting
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. Only difference is i imagine the knob as the bolt and not the nut.....works the same though. And it doesn't matter if the windage knob is on the left or on the right.

This is what I found out after a goggle search

and then there was another answer about rotating a scope 90 decrees

Nothing stops you from doing so. But remember, the scope's adjustments have now changed:
  • Windage is now the elevation adjustment;
  • Elevation is now the windage adjustment.
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So who do you believe. I will go down soon to see if mine is rotated. I really hate to mess with it as its shooting great, 

I appreciate the reply here about my problem and this is so stupid on my part
 
"300 dollar plus scope"?...
I dont think theres Leupold scope in this price range. Go to:

https://www.leupold.com/scopefinder/

And search by price 0-400 result will be - none.

As of mounting scope 90deg, IF you have MOA scales - it will work either way. IF you have Leupold BDC scale - thet dial needs to be vertical. You also need to zero your scope before you use it.
 
You are correct. The one I bought was the VX=2. it is a great scope and looks good on the weapon. it was more towards 400 bucks, so my error. I think I paid 375 for mine, A member on here gave me a link for it and I jumped on it. I did the Zero part and the gun is shooting perfectly. When it comes time to remove it for repair, I will change it then. I do not want to mess with it now, it is shooting just too good to do that