Received an email with this question...

[Wilbur]

...And I don't know the answer. I sent a reply but feel that it needed more. Here's the question...
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Need help with some problems with my Balvar 6-24 and identification of one of its parts

I assume that you are knowledgable in regards to this scope.

I have it mounted properly on a Remington 40x 22-250 Ackley improved. Sighting it in I have the windage recticle cranked all the way to the stop and the windage cross hair is no where near the center, the mounts are correct and properly installed. Is their something wrong with the scope?

Something else, before the scope was mounted on the bottom Side of the scope their is a movable tab sticking out of the scope about one eight of an inch ,what does it do? Do you have a copy of the article from the American Rifleman August 1956 page 64 in the Dope Bag Covering this scope?

Look forward to hearing from you.

Thank You
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I answered that he could move the tab to see what it did and get a set of adjustable mounts to center the scope but if y'all could help it would be good.

 

[David Halblom]

The one thing I

believe is that the Balvor is meant to be set into movable rings. If he is using movable rings and still off center, the scope is probably mounted 90* off.

I could be dead wrong as well.

David

 

[Boyd Allen]

Here is a link to a picture search.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bal...KEwjx-P63iKHLAhUU_2MKHVZ3DMEQ_AUICSgD&dpr=1.5
Up near the top are several examples. In the past I have seen them with both the B&L external adjustable rings, and Unertl style. Does your setup look like one of these? These scopes were designed to slide in their rings as the rifle recoiled. Without pictures of your rifle it would be hard for anyone to give specific advice.

 

[blades]

if using a model with external adj. type rings it is possible that the third leg in the rear ring has become frozen from the effects of time on lube/accumulated dirt and such. it is a cap with a spring behind it that keeps the scope body in contact with the e&w contact points. Also possible you have the mounting blocks mixed up or if using posi mounts you do not have the clamping portion in the groove provided on the matching blocks - Elevation statement would indicate that one of the blocks is of improper height.
If the unit is of the modern design of internal adjustments - possible wrong base ( elevation)- drilled and tapped off center-line ( windage)- or the lastly scope is fubar.

Course there is also the possibility that something is amiss with the barrel itself. You did not mention if factory load or hand load-another area for things to go south. Are the impacts at random within a defined area or a definite group at particular point other than poa . please answer the questions posed here and by previous posters so that we maybe can refine the area of difficulty.

50 years of trying to make little lead pills go where I want them to- still working on it. ( get pretty close, better than a hand grenade, less collateral damage)