Q 500m Fly Spotting Scopes & Cartridges

[Steve 2141]

Hello Australia from cold and snowy Ohio in the USA. Very nice web forum.

hi jim

welcome to this web site it's great to have you here

cheers

[Rath]

Salt or butter, what's better @ 500m...

[trevort]

who needs a popcorn emoticon now.

hey this is just like AHN

You gotta send the scope back Tony

[curan]

It's like watching top gear.

People arguing about the best super car (scope) while the rest of us drive 10yo bombs

....very good! - I'm still enjoying my bomb!

Also, welcome to James ..... and thanks for your post. I reckon we'll all be interested in finding out how Tony gets on.

cheers, curan

[Ackley Improved]

James... welcome to the forum and I hope you stick around on here.....

Anything new in the Kelbly range of products?

CHeers

[James A Kelbly]

New for Kelbly's is our Atlas action which could be called a Remington clone, but it only has the foot print the same. We have a Stolle thread in it so you can use all those used benchrest barrels that are no longer good for extreme accuracy but still great for Varmint hunting. Check it out at kelbly.com. We will be making this winter some picatiny rings in 34mm and 30mm. They will be 2024 aluminum just as our other rings are made of.

At March they are working on a 3x-24x First Focal Plane scope and we just got the first two proto types and they look amazing. We will introduce them to the public at January Shot Show.

Jim

[Curtley78]

G'day Jim,

Welcome to the forum. Whilst on subject of Customer service, I made a couple of inquiries some time ago in regard to obtaining one of your 1M stocks for a Panda Action, however, I never received a response (I had always thought that being in Australia was perhaps beyond interest).

Regards

Sean

[malcolm]

Hello Australia from cold and snowy Ohio in the USA. Very nice web forum.
Gidday Jim and as all the others have stated "Welcome"
It sure is nice and comforting to know that "the head honkey" is on to us here downunder. I'm sure shooters appreciate a word directly from the factory when someone has a query. It's sometimes very difficult receiving a reply from dealers - let alone straight from the boss.
Merry Christmas
Malcolm

[singleshot]

G'day Jim,

Welcome to the forum. Whilst on subject of Customer service, I made a couple of inquiries some time ago in regard to obtaining one of your 1M stocks for a Panda Action, however, I never received a response (I had always thought that being in Australia was perhaps beyond interest).

Regards

Sean

G day Sean

I purchased a 1M stock direct from Kelbly's a couple of years ago. All done via email without problems. No doubt Jim can answer this. I found their service excellent. They sell gear world wide so we are definately not "beyond interest"

Regards
Cameron

[chopper01]

Very interesting comments , lets talk about the wind in those matches , much more interesting and valuable than all the gadgets, Chop.

[Ned Kelly]

G'Day Chop,
you are right, but you have to have the hardware details sorted out too, then it's only EVER, good bullets and trigger time over good flags and plenty of mirage experience that counts.

It seems to me, whether it is F class, BR, or Full bore, all the great competitors have good well tuned equipment, but more importantly (compared to us mere mortals) it is practice, practice and even more practice in whatever condition mother nature dishes up.

It builds confidence in yourself, your gear and expands your capabilites..............and if you're really "lucky" maybe a podium finish!

I consider myself fortunate that even though I know I dont shoot nearly enough, I still like to think I'm reasonably competitive and in with a chance.

(Yeah I know........tell him he's dreaming!)

Cheerio Ned

[Tony Z]

I have been researching a bit over the last month as to what scope i will purchase for my LG. It has been ordered and will hopefully be here before Xmas and as far as i know there is not one being currently used in long range or FClass competition up our way. As for the March it will sit in the box until i decide what to do with it.

We shot this weekend just gone and the conditions were variable from zero mirage to impossible mirage at 500 meters. There were a number of scopes there from March, NF, B&L, Leupold and i had a look through all at various times as did a bunch of other people. This sort of thing is completely subjective to individual eyesight and day to day viewing conditions. What i can is that our part of the world at this time of the year and the last few months leading up until now are the great equaliser when it comes to optics and where the Alpha Romeo syndrome or marketing hype can and will bring you undone.
As a last comment on this topic, a new shooter would be far further advanced if they bought a mid range scope, one reliable enough to hold zero, and then with the outstounding monies left over from the top end scopes to then go out and purchase two more barrels. When you are standing knee deep in brass and burnt out barrels, you will most probably have a slightly different view to what you may have now and will have improved your aggregates quite a fair bit.

[jimbo]

I have been researching a bit over the last month as to what scope i will purchase for my LG. It has been ordered and will hopefully be here before Xmas and as far as i know there is not one being currently used in long range or FClass competition up our way. As for the March it will sit in the box until i decide what to do with it.

We shot this weekend just gone and the conditions were variable from zero mirage to impossible mirage at 500 meters. There were a number of scopes there from March, NF, B&L, Leupold and i had a look through all at various times as did a bunch of other people. This sort of thing is completely subjective to individual eyesight and day to day viewing conditions. What i can is that our part of the world at this time of the year and the last few months leading up until now are the great equaliser when it comes to optics and where the Alpha Romeo syndrome or marketing hype can and will bring you undone.
As a last comment on this topic, a new shooter would be far further advanced if they bought a mid range scope, one reliable enough to hold zero, and then with the outstounding monies left over from the top end scopes to then go out and purchase two more barrels. When you are standing knee deep in brass and burnt out barrels, you will most probably have a slightly different view to what you may have now and will have improved your aggregates quite a fair bit.

Well that's all very fine Tony, but since you have told the World that there is a problem with your March scope, it is extremely unlikely that any one would want to buy it. After all the warranty is with the original owner.

So, it looks like you just might have to take Jim Kelbly's suggestion/offer and advise the serial number to him, and then get the warranty people in Japan to have a look at it. You can then tell the World about the service you received, and how much better the scope is afterwards.

Should you not do this then we can only wonder, can't we?

Fair enough?

Brendan Atkinson

[Curtley78]

G'day Jim,

Welcome to the forum. Whilst on subject of Customer service, I made a couple of inquiries some time ago in regard to obtaining one of your 1M stocks for a Panda Action, however, I never received a response (I had always thought that being in Australia was perhaps beyond interest).

Regards

Sean

G day Sean

I purchased a 1M stock direct from Kelbly's a couple of years ago. All done via email without problems. No doubt Jim can answer this. I found their service excellent. They sell gear world wide so we are definitely not "beyond interest"

Regards
Cameron

G'day Cameron,

I sent Jim another email this morning and I eagerly anticipate his reply (now that our Dollar is so good).

I would rather the real deal Holyfield as opposed to a laminate knock-off.

Regards

Sean

[BRT]

I As for the March it will sit in the box until i decide what to do with it.

Well Tony, I'm glad to hear you changed your mind about passing it onto to someone else if you really do think there is a problem. I think you should be taking up Jim's offer to get it checked out. We both know you have not purchased any scopes from us or from Jim and he has made a strong statement to everyone that all of us, DEON included, want to stand behind their product and resolve any issue. Jim has made a good point, if there really is a problem then it needs to be resolved.
Send it over.

Stuart