Scope shims

[poodown1982]

Guys ive took my hawke scope off my TX200HC and put it on my HW97KT .but no on this gun the scope has run out of clicks to go up...ill put a shim init but how come it would do that when it was fine on my TX200...any idea cheers

 

[Dog51]

The maths you need

 

[poodown1982]

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The maths you need

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The maths you need

Thank you pal...

 

[FPoole]

If you used the same mounts, the 97 should need less clicks than the TX. Should, is the key word.

 

[Byronic]

Guys ive took my hawke scope off my TX200HC and put it on my HW97KT .but no on this gun the scope has run out of clicks to go up...ill put a shim init but how come it would do that when it was fine on my TX200...any idea cheers

Are your mounts fitted properly?
Completely flat and "square" on the dovetails?
Try swapping front to rear too.

Cheap mounts is an easy fix at a reasonable price so makes a good first check.

 

[poodown1982]

Are your mounts fitted properly?
Completely flat and "square" on the dovetails?
Try swapping front to rear too.

Cheap mounts is an easy fix at a reasonable price so makes a good first check.

Im goin to take them off later as i just took scope an mounts off all in one an put in onto hw97 buddy

 

[poodown1982]

If you used the same mounts, the 97 should need less clicks than the TX. Should, is the key word.

Cheers pal

 

[Byronic]

Im goin to take them off later as i just took scope an mounts off all in one an put in onto hw97 buddy

Got to be a good first step.
Then reverse the positions I the problem remains.

Let us know how you get on, please

 

[waisted skirt]

Two golden rules, you never ever leave your wing man and never shim a scope, get some adjustable mounts and do the job right. Scopes were not designed to be shimmed.

 

[Tinbum]

Two golden rules, you never ever leave your wing man and never shim a scope, get some adjustable mounts and do the job right. Scopes were not designed to be shimmed.

Yeah, they were though!

 

[crissdee]

Scopes were not designed to be shimmed.

I thought we'd been through this in another thread. In an ideal world, no, but done with care, and shims of a few thou, no harm done at all.

 

[poodown1982]

Got to be a good first step.
Then reverse the positions I the problem remains.

Let us know how you get on, please

Will do buddy.just find it odd as they were good on TX200 pal

 

[Byronic]

Two golden rules, you never ever leave your wing man and never shim a scope, get some adjustable mounts and do the job right. Scopes were not designed to be shimmed.

One man's "Golden Rule" is another man's advice in a perfect world, it seems.

I have shimmed quite a number of scopes with no damage to mounts or scope.

Horses for courses etc.

My more "serious" kit gets painstakingly set up but a cheap plinker with a used scope can be shimmed with no problems in my experience.

 

[foxtrott]

Guys ive took my hawke scope off my TX200HC and put it on my HW97KT .but no on this gun the scope has run out of clicks to go up...ill put a shim init but how come it would do that when it was fine on my TX200...any idea cheers

Hi mate, ive got a brand new set of hawke shims with instructions your welcome to them if you want them, i can drop em you off

 

[foxtrott]

Will do buddy.just find it odd as they were good on TX200 pal

Different rifles can give very different results scope wise , i ran out of adjustment on my 97 with a bushnell legend scope so i tuned it to a lighter pellet so not as much drop at 30 yards ,i now have about 7 clicks spare

 

[Lakeside]

Guys ive took my hawke scope off my TX200HC and put it on my HW97KT .but no on this gun the scope has run out of clicks to go up...ill put a shim init but how come it would do that when it was fine on my TX200...any idea cheers

I have cut off pieces of camera negatives which work perfectly for fine tune shimming

 

[poodown1982]

Hi mate, ive got a brand new set of hawke shims with instructions your welcome to them if you want them, i can drop em you off

Ahhh where do you live plz buddy .that would be greate plz

 

[foxtrott]

Guys ive took my hawke scope off my TX200HC and put it on my HW97KT .but no on this gun the scope has run out of clicks to go up...ill put a shim init but how come it would do that when it was fine on my TX200...any idea cheers

Also optically central the scope and start from scratch to zero.

 

[chouchin66]

Rings were designed to be lapped in, to be co - planer, if scopes were meant to be shimmed with tin can bits or film negatives or other such detritus, that stuff would have come in a ziplock bag, right next to the lens covers & cleaning cloth in the scope box ... Bodgery.

 

[Dan79]

I’ve not long been in the shimming situation.
Save yourself a whole load of grief and get some height adjustable mounts