Bent tube repair?

[Allen Corneau]

I just discovered that one of my Weaver T-24's has a severely bent tube.

I was swapping it on to a rifle and doing an initial bore-sighting from the kitchen table when I noticed that the scope was pointing well to the right of where it should have been. (No, not just the reticle, the whole view through the scope.) Rotating the scope in the unclamped rings would make the image arc a good 6-8" at about 50 yards!

Putting two other spare scopes in the rings showed that the image would remain mostly stable with very little image shifting, so it's not the rings, not the rifle, definitely the scope.

These Weavers (T-24's, 1/2 MOA dot, 1/4 adjustments) aren't made any more and no one else makes a scope that is a comparable replacement, so rescuing this scope is important to me.

Is there anyone out there doing scope repairs that can fix this sort of thing? I'm already imagining trying to build a jig to try to do it myself, but if someone else has already been down this path and has learned how to do it then I would be willing to pay them rather than me trying to figure it out from scratch.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Bill K]

Natchez shooter supply sells refurbished Weaver and other scopes. Might give them a call and see if who every they use can and will help you.

 

[Allen Corneau]

Well, crisis averted and lesson learned.

Apparently this scope was adjusted way to the right to compensate for a crooked rifle (Anschutz 2002 SSP). I had no idea that the main scope image would adjust that far off center!

I adjusted the windage knob back to the center of it's range and now all is good with the world.