Scrounger
02-23-2007, 01:59 PM
Several years ago I bought an RWS Model 48 Air Rifle with scope. I sold the scope off of it but was unable to remove the mount because some idiot had put it on with a quart of Red Loctite. Heat didn't help and the hex head screws were soon stripped and I ended up drilling them out. I called the company which imported the mounts, Unarex or something like that. They said to send the mount in and they would refurbish it. Yesterday they called to tell me to send them $19.95 so they could return the mount. Oh, by the way, there are no screws, this is an older model mount and the screws we have in stock won't fit it. They said I could buy the screws at a hardware store but I'm real doubtful of finding them at ACE when I don't even know what they are. Probably metric of some kind. I don't resent paying them the money, they earned it, but it is really odd that they don't have screws of the right size available. Contrast that with what BSA Optics did recently. Someone had listed a BSA 2 to 7 Air Rifle scope on EBAY. Nice one, target knobs, parallex, beautiful. Except for a dent in the tube. It didn't look too bad in the picture and Midway sold the scopes for $65, so I figured I could live with the dent for $10. Ended up getting it for $14 with the shipping. That dent looked a lot bigger in real life, so big it distorted the tube so much it wouldn't fit in the rings. So I called BSA and told them exactly what had happened. I didn't expect any warranty service but at what I had in it, it was worth paying for it's repair. They said,"no problem, send it in with $10 to cover return shipping, we'll take care of it." When they returned it, "it" was a brand new in the box scope. I'm glad to see they are as reputable a company as the other scope people.