I read a bunch of reviews online about these scopes and thought I'd give one a try, a Veyron 3-12X44. Everything said about the glass proved to be absolutely true. this one is amazingly clear and bright. I mean, it's on a par with some of the best scopes I've had, and I've spent a ton on scopes. I was really impressed. The reticle is thin, but I love that. Build quality is very good, with all controls moving just perfect, not too tight and not too light. The clicks are a bit on the mushy side, but no worse than scopes costing three times the price of admission. Parallax was spot on too. The only thing I can think of to complain about is the fov is noticeably smaller than scopes you might be used to, but hey, It's a compact scope and that's part of the nature of the beast.
Then I mounted it on my HW100 .177, which is your usual Weirauch tack driver. First groups, not too bad, but I felt something was wrong. Made up a tall target for tracking testing, which is simply a crosshair drawn on cardboard, with the cross at the bottom. You shoot at the cross, and move up the vertical line to check tracking and mil spacing. The first group was around an inch, not good for this gun. Moving up 5 mils, and the first shot was at 4 mils, then the next hit 4.5 mils, then 5 mils. Back down a couple mils, and again, the shots were strung out, til it got to the proper mark, back up to 5 mils, same thing, back to zero, and again stringing to the crosshair. I shot some subsequent groups and they were in the 1" to 1-1/2" range all at 33 yards, which is soooo much worse than this rifle is capable of. Those last 4 or 5 groups were with no changes turret changes at all. The scope just couldn't hold zero.
At this point, I mounted a SWFA SS 10X and repeated the exact same tall target test with it. Groups were all less than 1/2", most were 1/4" or just a tad larger, and I admit I was hurrying once I was convinced things were good. Moving up and down the vertical line works perfectly with each full mil movement hitting right on. So that proves it's the scope, and nothing else. I even remounted the Vector and made sure I hadn't had a loose mount or anything, and if anything, groups were worse.
So, no love here for Veyron scopes today. I dunno if I'll get another or just return it and move on. It's such a shame, because they seem to have nailed everything else, but honestly if any scope is not mechanically sound, then it's useless.
Anyone else had trouble with Veyron scopes?
Then I mounted it on my HW100 .177, which is your usual Weirauch tack driver. First groups, not too bad, but I felt something was wrong. Made up a tall target for tracking testing, which is simply a crosshair drawn on cardboard, with the cross at the bottom. You shoot at the cross, and move up the vertical line to check tracking and mil spacing. The first group was around an inch, not good for this gun. Moving up 5 mils, and the first shot was at 4 mils, then the next hit 4.5 mils, then 5 mils. Back down a couple mils, and again, the shots were strung out, til it got to the proper mark, back up to 5 mils, same thing, back to zero, and again stringing to the crosshair. I shot some subsequent groups and they were in the 1" to 1-1/2" range all at 33 yards, which is soooo much worse than this rifle is capable of. Those last 4 or 5 groups were with no changes turret changes at all. The scope just couldn't hold zero.
At this point, I mounted a SWFA SS 10X and repeated the exact same tall target test with it. Groups were all less than 1/2", most were 1/4" or just a tad larger, and I admit I was hurrying once I was convinced things were good. Moving up and down the vertical line works perfectly with each full mil movement hitting right on. So that proves it's the scope, and nothing else. I even remounted the Vector and made sure I hadn't had a loose mount or anything, and if anything, groups were worse.
So, no love here for Veyron scopes today. I dunno if I'll get another or just return it and move on. It's such a shame, because they seem to have nailed everything else, but honestly if any scope is not mechanically sound, then it's useless.
Anyone else had trouble with Veyron scopes?
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