He sent it back and when he got it back, it was still not repaired. He sent a scope to them about 6 years ago and they kept it for over a year, returned it and charged him, but never made the repairs. But a friend has told me to steer clear of them. When the father was running it, the shop did great work. I know that Parson's bought all the rights and tooling from Lyman. It works, but make for about a 3/4 minute cross-wire. That's almost 6 times the thickness of the original wires. I was able to make new cross-wires, but had to use what I had on hand, which was 0.004" wire. Without going into painful detail, I broke the cross-wires in the reticle cell. The eyepiece must come off to get the mounts off. I was working on the front mount of my 4 digit serial number Lyman SST. But in my case, I'm talking vintage scopes. Yes, the obvious choice for any quality scope is to send it back to the OEM. ![]() ![]() That said, I recently am finding that amongst some serious rifle shooters I have as friends, none of them can recommend a good scope repair shop. I know that many forums prefer that vendors not be promoted or badmouthed by members because it is so subjective.
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