Sent in my CSX that seemed to loose focus. I knew it had ring marks from previous owner and I was betting they where going to tell me tough luck. Instead 30 days later a nice package arrived. They cleaned, re-sealed, fixed objective, fixed erector, fixed focus, reset parallax, and in exclamation points Reticle at extreme position whatever that means. They basically rebuilt my scope and sent me a German packing slip I can't read as well. All free of charge. The guy I bought it from a few years back must have had it on some kind of extreme caliber ultralight Blaser. No names though

Kahles CS has always been good when I've needed it. They changed out 3 reticles on my CL 2-7 MZs. Yes it has to go to Austria, but I am good with that. Glad they took care of you.

I'm jealous - it cost me $540 for them to refurbish my Helia Super 27, and I'd bought mine new. It was 21 years old at the time, though, near the turn of the century.

That reference to "Reticle at extreme position" suggests someone had mounted it badly and all of the adjustment had to be used up, a situation that is not optically desirable and apparently can lead to misses because of head position.

Alternatively, it might refer to recoil inertia having moved the reticle forward, which may explain why they had to reset the parallax.

I am not sure. It looks like I see lees of the outer posts now but that may just be my perception.

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Originally posted by gremcat:
I am not sure. It looks like I see lees of the outer posts now but that may just be my perception.

That could be commensurate with my second suggestion; that is the middle of the reticle might have bulged forward under recoil and they have reset the parallax to focus at that point.

I can imagine the old #1 reticles doing that as the middle was unsupported. On some old scopes one of the sidebars sometimes appears to have drooped, so why not bend forward?