Maybe the scope. Have you tried a another ?
Scope.
Wire reticle ? Or maybe a bad erector spring or assembly..
Quote from: cosmic on May 19, 2017, 11:53:54 PMWire reticle ? Or maybe a bad erector spring or assembly..Ray I believe its an etched reticle.I did some more digging around after the OP and it seems the manufacturers claim its from the springs in the erector tube. And may be "perfectly normal" with some models under "certain conditions". Of course they would! Anyway, thanks for your help in getting to the root cause. I"ll probably try swapping it around with an isolation mount, and/or on another gun, and see if that makes any difference. Along with shooting Hawke an email and see if they've more recently changed their opinion on the "cause and effect".
Don't know as this will help any but after I got my HW95, looking at the overly large (at least to me anyway) scope stop holes in the receiver and debating ways to work with them, Jeff at Trenier Outdoors suggested trying a Sun Optics recoil scope stop so I bought one.The pin in it is a perfect fit for those holes and the nylon inserts on both sides are for butting one or both rings up against to help diminish effects of recoil on scopes. So far it seems to be working very well as I used a set of reversed Hawke Reach Forward match mount rings to use with the Hawke Airmax 3-9x40 AO scope I have on the rifle. I've got close to 1000 rounds through it so far and have never had a problem with vibration, pinging or anything else with the rifle and scope.Here's pics of the rifle, scope and mounts plus a link to that scope stop if you're even remotely interested:https://trenieroutdoors.com/mounts/sun-optics-recoil-stop-11mm-dovetail/
When I machined a custom stop pin with an "enlarged tip close to stop pin hole size", the side of the "tip" interfered with the HW95 receiver dovetai. To "solve" this issue the stop pin was screwed into the receiver stop pin hole after mounting the base. This meant that the tip of the stop needed to be perfectly aligned with the stop pin hole before screwing into place and the scope was then secured to the base saddles. This created a situation where I couldn't remove the scope and mount as a unit but had to remove the scope from the rings first, then unscrew the stop pin, then loosen the dovetail clamp to disengage the base.