OK, after a search here for a used HW44, a great AGN user tips me off about a used gun he himself had traded into a major retailer (to remain anonymous for now). So I strike a really nice deal and say to them, hey lets make this nicer-throw on a red dot and set me up. They come back and say ok perfect this is the sight to get, Ohhh wait, we are out of stock on that one, how about this one and we'll give it to you for the same price, its a bit 'nicer'. The optic is a Vortex Spitfire, mfg website shows them for $350, Optics planet has them for $250, they charged me $179. So I should be happy right?
here is where it gets strange!
The gun shows up...and its not the used one. Nope- its brand spanking new. Ummm, score for me. Has air in it, and a chrony readout, must have been shot right... but the test card was blank in that area- odd. Lets shoot it man this is a bigger optic than expected. First shot at 12yards- nips the edge of the paper- what in hell? 4 inches wide at 12 yd?. Do it again, same thing but pellet on pellet. Lets focus the reticle, hmmmm this thing is adjusting from lock to lock and there's not a huge focus difference in the reticle against that flat background- weird, get it as close as possible and keep shooting, time is running out for the night. Ok lets look at the simple little manual the optic came with-nope not much in there. OK, lets re zero it then. Hey strange that the outer moa circle takes up the entire eyebox-just noticed there is massive parallax shift, thought this was virtually parallax free. Targets on paper, adjusting, shooting, more adjusting-finally she took basically every click of windage adjustment to pull it close, but still not enough, look at the 4 targets with 1 shot each, they look like copies of each other, holding on the center. LOL.
something is up, but I'm tired, time is up, pack it in for the day.
So NOW I am home, looking at it again and I go to the website to pull the manual or see some reviews etc...Hmmmmm, this optic is not shown on a pistol? what's the eye relief say: LMAO- 3.8" OHHHHH that AND it was MOUNTED BACKWARDS. SMH maybe if I had turned on the illumination I would have noticed sooner the buttons facing downrange!
So this major retailer gave me a new gun, rather than pre-owned- which was great, and cut me a nice deal on a cool red dot- also great. BUT its NOT a functional package like I asked for due to the rifle length eye relief. It seems they shot it over the chrony, but either not on a target OR the 'blank' target print area was blank because every pellet was a mile off paper cause the optic was bassackwards. and when you order over the phone and the 'experts' say yeah this is a great setup...and you are the noob to airguns, you just kind of say cool take my money, I'm getting a sweet deal so thank you. Lesson learned I can still handle sight in myself, stop being a lazy butt and pay more attention
SOOOO- how do I play this? Do I 'take a win' and sell the optic and not cause a stir? becasue I can't use this optic, and I don't want it for another gun that I don't own. The gun did not even fit in the carry bag they sold me for it, its like a comedy of errors. Or do I call them up and tell them whoever 'set me up' needs to 'set up' a new job interview. What would you guys do?
here is where it gets strange!
The gun shows up...and its not the used one. Nope- its brand spanking new. Ummm, score for me. Has air in it, and a chrony readout, must have been shot right... but the test card was blank in that area- odd. Lets shoot it man this is a bigger optic than expected. First shot at 12yards- nips the edge of the paper- what in hell? 4 inches wide at 12 yd?. Do it again, same thing but pellet on pellet. Lets focus the reticle, hmmmm this thing is adjusting from lock to lock and there's not a huge focus difference in the reticle against that flat background- weird, get it as close as possible and keep shooting, time is running out for the night. Ok lets look at the simple little manual the optic came with-nope not much in there. OK, lets re zero it then. Hey strange that the outer moa circle takes up the entire eyebox-just noticed there is massive parallax shift, thought this was virtually parallax free. Targets on paper, adjusting, shooting, more adjusting-finally she took basically every click of windage adjustment to pull it close, but still not enough, look at the 4 targets with 1 shot each, they look like copies of each other, holding on the center. LOL.
something is up, but I'm tired, time is up, pack it in for the day.
So NOW I am home, looking at it again and I go to the website to pull the manual or see some reviews etc...Hmmmmm, this optic is not shown on a pistol? what's the eye relief say: LMAO- 3.8" OHHHHH that AND it was MOUNTED BACKWARDS. SMH maybe if I had turned on the illumination I would have noticed sooner the buttons facing downrange!
So this major retailer gave me a new gun, rather than pre-owned- which was great, and cut me a nice deal on a cool red dot- also great. BUT its NOT a functional package like I asked for due to the rifle length eye relief. It seems they shot it over the chrony, but either not on a target OR the 'blank' target print area was blank because every pellet was a mile off paper cause the optic was bassackwards. and when you order over the phone and the 'experts' say yeah this is a great setup...and you are the noob to airguns, you just kind of say cool take my money, I'm getting a sweet deal so thank you. Lesson learned I can still handle sight in myself, stop being a lazy butt and pay more attention
SOOOO- how do I play this? Do I 'take a win' and sell the optic and not cause a stir? becasue I can't use this optic, and I don't want it for another gun that I don't own. The gun did not even fit in the carry bag they sold me for it, its like a comedy of errors. Or do I call them up and tell them whoever 'set me up' needs to 'set up' a new job interview. What would you guys do?
