sestoppelman
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Probably the 3rd one of these I have owned, maybe 4 counting the Lux model I had a few years, that I should never have sold.
Anyway, snagged this off GB recently sporting a Leupold Rifleman 2-7X scope in the rings shown. Sadly when it arrived the Leupy was toast, the eyepiece being broken off and laying in the box!
Rifle had a couple layers of bubble wrap around it and then stuffed into a box, scope on and bolt in, two no-no's in my view. I accepted it anyway for the rifle which as we all know the 550's are getting scarce.
Emailed the seller, didnt hear anything for nearly 2 days, but finally replied that he could send me a Leupy 4-12 scope, model unknown. OK, fine. He decided it had to go to my FFL guy instead of directly to me necessitating an extra trip to get it. Thanks!
I asked if he wanted the busted Leupy back, crickets again, finally emails back today, and says, and I quote, "You can keep the broken one!" Not sure if that means with his blessings or put it where the sun dont shine, but whatever, its going back to Leupold and they have said they would take care of me.
When I got the rifle home the other day I took it apart to inspect the insides and true to form another mishap! The front action screw fell out, landed on the floor somewhere in the loading bench area and just flat disappeared! I looked high and low for an hour, gone! No doubt it will turn up someday, but in the meantime I found an ebay guy who had both screws so ordered from him and also ordered just the one from Numrich and both came today. Both are the right threads but the one from Numrich is the proper length, the ones from ebay guy are a tad long, so will keep them for spares.
As I had planned to swap scopes on this anyway thats not huge so will shoot initially with the Meo 3-9 which is a really good scope.
If this one shoots like the others I have had, I should probably hang onto it... at least for more than a few months!!
Anyway, snagged this off GB recently sporting a Leupold Rifleman 2-7X scope in the rings shown. Sadly when it arrived the Leupy was toast, the eyepiece being broken off and laying in the box!
Rifle had a couple layers of bubble wrap around it and then stuffed into a box, scope on and bolt in, two no-no's in my view. I accepted it anyway for the rifle which as we all know the 550's are getting scarce.
Emailed the seller, didnt hear anything for nearly 2 days, but finally replied that he could send me a Leupy 4-12 scope, model unknown. OK, fine. He decided it had to go to my FFL guy instead of directly to me necessitating an extra trip to get it. Thanks!
I asked if he wanted the busted Leupy back, crickets again, finally emails back today, and says, and I quote, "You can keep the broken one!" Not sure if that means with his blessings or put it where the sun dont shine, but whatever, its going back to Leupold and they have said they would take care of me.
When I got the rifle home the other day I took it apart to inspect the insides and true to form another mishap! The front action screw fell out, landed on the floor somewhere in the loading bench area and just flat disappeared! I looked high and low for an hour, gone! No doubt it will turn up someday, but in the meantime I found an ebay guy who had both screws so ordered from him and also ordered just the one from Numrich and both came today. Both are the right threads but the one from Numrich is the proper length, the ones from ebay guy are a tad long, so will keep them for spares.
As I had planned to swap scopes on this anyway thats not huge so will shoot initially with the Meo 3-9 which is a really good scope.
If this one shoots like the others I have had, I should probably hang onto it... at least for more than a few months!!
