Mtc viper lens cover puzzle!

[lensman57]

Hi guys I'm looking for some kindly advice regarding my recently purchased Mtc viper 4x16x50 scope. I bought it second hand it came with a sunshade that is fitted with a removable metal Mtc lens cover, but I've found the cover does not fit the front of the scope without the sunshade, can anyone advise me if there is some kind of adapter to enable me to do that, also looking for a large parallax wheel for it too, here's hoping. Cheers Adrian

Out of the box the MTC Vipers and Mambas have an adaptor ring attached to the front of the scope that needs to be removed if the sunshade is to be fitted. That ring will then attach to the front of the sunshade so that the flip up cap can be attached to the front of the sunshade. If your scope has the flip up cap attached to the front of the sunshade then just remove the adaptor ring and reattach it to the front of the scope.


A.G

[shakeysimon]

Glad you got it sorted,I had to remove one off my viper to fit to a Springer,took me a while to figure it out

[Solvo]

Lucky you have one that fits.
The Viper i have it is impossible to fit the lens cover to the sunshade; doesn't have a removable ring on the shade, just badly threaded and wont start.

[angrybear]

Lucky you have one that fits.
The Viper i have it is impossible to fit the lens cover to the sunshade; doesn't have a removable ring on the shade, just badly threaded and wont start.

So either clean the thread or file it back a bit

[Solvo]

It is clean. it's in mint condition as it was when new a few years back and has had this issue the whole time.

Either way it doesn't change the fact that from new the two part cannot be fitted together. I stopped buying MTC after that since the build quality is noticeably worse than my original viper. If you ever had the need to take a file to a £250 optic when it's new out the box it's time for a change of manufacturer.

Sadly i have purchased a £300 Niko recently and found that has appalling build quality compared to 3 others I own from about 15 years ago.
I don't know what you have to pay to get the same level of build and optics these days but either the manufacturers are sliding or I don't have the cash for nice glass anymore.