Wow.

At least it wasn’t my dad this time. This was on a rifle he bought a few years ago from a friend of his. I’m gonna have to go to the hardware store tomorrow to find the right size Allen wrench to fix it.

Now that is a prime example of WECSOG - Wiley E. Coyote School of Gunsmithing.

Not enough torque on the ring screws and mounted on a .458 Win Magnum?

Nice and snug!

It was on a 270 Winchester Weatherby Vanguard. I'm guessing my dad's friend never shot it. Surely if he had, he would have noticed the power ring cannot be turned effectively turning his 2x-7x variable power scope into a 2x fixed power scope. Jack O'Conner he was clearly not.

Weird thing is along with the Browning SA-22, it's two rifles in the last week my dad has gifted to me with the scope mounted as far forward as possible. On the Browning, even the mount itself was so far forward it prevented the barrel from turning if you tried to take it down. Forgetting about these scopes' function inhibiting mounting, you still have to crane your neck to get your eye in their eye boxes and you cannot get a good cheek weld on the stocks with your head that far forward.

Some guns/actions can get a little tight with mounting certain scopes. As an example, low power scope, long action, widely spaced bases.

One may need offsets, or a different scope. Was the installer trying to get eye relief right? I wonder if there was room to mount it with allowances?

With it fixed at 2x I don’t believe eye relief was an issue. Move the scope back a 1/4 of an inch and you’ll be able to use the power ring. Whoever mounted the scope just chose poorly:

I pulled this one off my 94/22m. Had a good laugh when I saw how the scope was mounted.

The receiver on a 9422M is fairly short.

I have one pretty close to that, but not right up against the ring. There's room to play with it and I'm still experimenting.

Give em a break, maybe they wanted a fixed power scope.

I suppose it could have been a deliberate choice, but 2x on a 24” barreled rifle chambered in 270 Winchester seems a bit like the choice to chamber a 20” barrel in 25-06:

Nothing wrong with a 20" 25-06, depending on the circumstances.

I've got an 18" .30-06...

Makes for a light and handy hunting rifle. You lose ~150 FPS over the more tradition 22-24 inch hunting rifles, but at the short to medium ranges I hunt at, that doesn't matter. So I'd rather have the more compact size in the heavy brush and timber of my usual hunting areas.

There's no denying the handiness of a shorter barrel, but 30-06 makes more sense in a carbine than 25-06 does at short and medium ranges.

Ugh, no access to the ring screws from the top too huh? Those are such a PIA.

Once had a customer ask me to figure out what was wrong with his scope, the most difficult thing to overcome was how to tell him he put it on backwards.