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603Country · March 6, 2011, 04:40 PM

I feel like I need to make an update on my Ruger Hawkeye in 223. See my new posting on 'wasn't the rifle, but was the scope). I recently haven't had much good to say about my Ruger Hawkeye, but the accuracy problem was the scope. I swapped it out for a trusted scope and took what I knew was a decent load (55 grain Nosler BT and 27 grains of Varget) and put the first 3 bullets in a hole so small that I had to walk 100 yards to the target to see where bullets 2 and 3 had gone. They went into the hole from bullet number 1 and did it so cleanly that I couldn't tell with my spotting scope. Bullet 4 made the hole a bit bigger and bullet 5 was 1/4 inch left. The Nikon Monarch 4X16 scope was the problem. I got a bad one. No more Nikon for me.

March 6, 2011, 04:40 PM	#7
603Country Senior Member Join Date: January 6, 2011 Location: Thornton, Texas Posts: 3,996	I feel like I need to make an update on my Ruger Hawkeye in 223. See my new posting on 'wasn't the rifle, but was the scope). I recently haven't had much good to say about my Ruger Hawkeye, but the accuracy problem was the scope. I swapped it out for a trusted scope and took what I knew was a decent load (55 grain Nosler BT and 27 grains of Varget) and put the first 3 bullets in a hole so small that I had to walk 100 yards to the target to see where bullets 2 and 3 had gone. They went into the hole from bullet number 1 and did it so cleanly that I couldn't tell with my spotting scope. Bullet 4 made the hole a bit bigger and bullet 5 was 1/4 inch left. The Nikon Monarch 4X16 scope was the problem. I got a bad one. No more Nikon for me.