New Weaver XR 46x

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Shinny
Has anyone done any testing with the new Weaver XR 46, relative to holding POI. :confused:

Anything else notable to report on this piece would be appreciated. :)
 
Excellent scope, clear, bright,nice parallax adj. the clicks are softer than a NF. but they good. It shot really good…….. jim
 
The only testing I have done with it this year is shooting my only teen agg and shooting 24X in a score match. The scope is definitely darker than my March 50 and my Leupold 45X. But this means nothing to me. It seems to hold POI so far. I probably have shot around 400 rds with it.

The big thing I see it weighs 23.6 oz on my scale. That is a LOT on a LV gun. One thing to check before you get one.

Hope this helps

Joe Hynes
 
I don't know about the Weaver being darker than a Leupold 45 and a March 50 but to my tired old eyes it is head and shoulders better than a 45 comp. and i also had a 50 power March and it is brighter. Does it shoot? Yes sir, zero's at 100 out of my Dasher and 4" at 1000……. 22.7 OZ. on a certified scale…….. jim
 
Reason for my question

Joe,

The reason I asked this question is: :confused:

I was at a 100-200yd shoot last weekend. This is the first match using this scope. It performed & held very good @ 100yd. Then when moving to 200, clicked up 7. First shot was in the 10 ring, then I clicked 2 up & 1 left and it seemed fine.

I was about to go to the first record target but thought I should take one more confirmation shot, only to find that shot went low by 2¼". I couldn't see any obvious condition that may have caused this. I fought with the scope through the entire match and shot miserably. I am not sure if the problem was the scope or some mystery conditions that was being produced by an anomaly at this range, as @ about 120 Yd it has a gulley that is 15'± deep and runs 20-30± yards (From Benches to Target Frames) and runs the full width of the range. Some say it produces very strange conditions. As I am no condition reading guru can neither confirm or deny this, but the flags & surrounding trees/greenery told me nothing.

No one has to tell me that I'm not a top shelf shooter, but I don't shoot that bad.

I am going to do some testing this week but felt I would throw the question out to see if anyone else had POI problems with this model.

Thanx

Shinny

for 200
liljoe said:
The only testing I have done with it this year is shooting my only teen agg and shooting 24X in a score match. The scope is definitely darker than my March 50 and my Leupold 45X. But this means nothing to me. It seems to hold POI so far. I probably have shot around 400 rds with it.

The big thing I see it weighs 23.6 oz on my scale. That is a LOT on a LV gun. One thing to check before you get one.

Hope this helps

Joe Hynes
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I shot the same match with the same scope and did not have any crazy shot, but I did watch another notable shooter drop points with no discernable change in the flags. Dropped out the bottom and not by a small amount. These were manly 9's. I believe they had a march scope and that the range was spitting shots for a lot of people. I had a few that went high on me but managed to stay clean....barely.
As for the weight of my scope it was closer to 24 oz so if anyone is building a LV rig aim on the high side. This was with a certified scale and check weights.
I like the small dot a lot. Clarity is on par with leupold 45x and the clicks are trustworthy.
Time will tell on the POI for me.
Mike

Good seeing you again, buddy.
 
Do some box tests to see how well it tracks then let us know. A scope that needs some shots to settle is of no use to me. My only dream is to see a fixed power nightforce nxs with a simple crosshair and dot with no treelimbs to look thru. Oh and it needs to weigh 20oz so it should probably be made of titanium. Thank you.
 
I don't do a box test, but i level the scope at 100 and i have a vertical line and a point of aim at the bottom. i shoot 3 and click up a 160 clicks a see where it hits on the line and click down to the original point and shoot three more. and it held a .1 …… but no box test……… jim
 
It had a fair share of wind on at 1000 and it did shoot 4" so i would say it's….. OK. Not bad for 800.00 scope. I have no trouble shooting early in the morning before the suns up, The UPS scope, i had to wait for the sun on the target…….. LOL….. jim
 
Not enough flags

Shinny: I'm just a nobody rookie shooter and maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but I think your biggest problem was that you only had 2 flags and a probe out at 200 yards. You told me that's all the flags that you own and that you hardly ever shoot at 200, and when you do shoot at 100 that's all you use also. I didn't have any long poles so I had none from 105 yards to about 190. I had one set up at 190 on the banking, but I had 4 set up from 20 yards to 105 and 2 probes one at about 45 and one at 100. I just saw that there was a lot going on between 20 yards and that 100 yard line and if you didn't have anything between there that you would have been lost. You only had that 1 probe at about 100. I'd bet my life that there was nothing wrong with that new Weaver of yours, I just think it was the lack of flags that u had. I'd like to get some feedback from other shooters about his use of only 2 flags and a probe at 200.
 
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Jim

Jim Pag said:
Shinny: I'm just a nobody rookie shooter and maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but I think your biggest problem was that u only had 2 flags and a probe out at 200 yards. You told me that's all u own and that u hardly ever shoot at 200, and when u do shoot at 100 that's all u use also. I didn't have any long poles so I had none from 105 yards to about 190. I had one set up at 190 on the banking, but I had 4 set up from 20 yards to 105 and 2 probes one at about 45 and one at 100. I just saw that there was a lot going on between 20 yards and that 100 yard line and if you didn't have anything between there that I would have been lost. You only had that 1 probe at about 100. I'd bet my life that there was nothing wrong with that new Weaver of yours. I'd like to get some feedback from other shooters on the lack of his using only 2 flags and a probe at 200.
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I believe you are correct...Shinny had too few flags. In my experience the most telling part of the 200 yard distance is 0-140 or so. That generally takes 4-5 flags.

Regarding the Weaver scope, if they haven't improved the internal erector tube support vs. the old 36X, I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. Problem is nobody really speaks to this critical part of a scope except March. Everyone oogles about the latest glass, coatings, etc. if it won't hold POI it's useless to me. When I first started I went through six Weaver 36s and everyone of them eventually went TsU in the reliability of holding POI department. Relatively speaking they were cheap, and I got what I paid for. No complaints there. It just taught me another lesson. JMHO.
 
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There was a lot going on at that 200yd match, and I believe most was in that big gully behind the 100yd line. I personally dropped a point and with the wind, the fog, and the rain we had to contend with I never considered for 1/4 second the problem was my scope. It was simply a missed condition, you had to be either really sharp or really lucky to shoot a 250 and I was neither.
 
Dick Grosbier said:
There was a lot going on at that 200yd match, and I believe most was in that big gully behind the 100yd line. I personally dropped a point and with the wind, the fog, and the rain we had to contend with I never considered for 1/4 second the problem was my scope. It was simply a missed condition, you had to be either really sharp or really lucky to shoot a 250 and I was neither.
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Ya but Dick, What would u think of somebody only using a probe at 100 and 2 flags past that? You've been around this game long enough.
 
Jim Pag said:
Ya but Dick, What would u think of somebody only using a probe at 100 and 2 flags past that? You've been around this game long enough.
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We had 3 flags at 100 and 2 at 200 with a couple of probes.....that ditch was dealing nines. Judy only dropped one point and had 12 X's. Not bad for her 6th match.
DA
 
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