P223 turret fell OFF!

This happened on my brother's P223 as well a few weeks ago. I sent a few emails a week ago to Nikon, no response. Not lookin good Nikon customer service… not good.

Mine fell off on my P308 and thanks to you I now know it's a left hand thread on the top piece

I had what I thought was a loose screw (gun not me) when I tightened it I thought I had stripped it out. Now I’m thinking I just loosened the reverse threads. I’m not a huge fan of this scope because of the exposed turrets. I have to tape mine to keep them from turning all the time going to and from the field or range. I have a bunch of Nikon stuff and love it. However, I don’t think I would buy this scope again. Clarity is awesome just hate the turrets.

Just bought and had it snap off as well. Not too happy so for. Second Nikon i've owned and the first (a prostaff 5 fps) was absolute garbage. Not sure if I'm willing to give them a third chance.

Thanks for the info on how to fix the problem an it worked out thank you great video.

The windage turret fell off my P223 3×32 while shooting over Thanksgiving after having been on my AR-15 for at least a couple years. I called Nikon and they shipped me a new screw since I lost mine in the woods…only problem is I have no idea what to use to insert it.

I had the same thing to happen to my newly purchased Nikon 3-9×40 p223 scope from Optics Planet. I sent it back for an exchange.

I purchased this scope (the 4-12×40) about a month and a half ago. After outtings in the field target shooting (200 rounds), my windage turret fell off just like yours! However, I lost the parts! Nikon will not send parts to replace, but require the entire scope to be sent in for service under warranty. 3-5 weeks turn around time..Sheesh a long delay. Scope has been fixed now, though.

I'm going to keep an eye on mine, thanks for the heads up. I would send it back …

Easy fix. Return that puppy.

yeah Rob if you have no immediate need for that scope, I would send it to Nikon for sure. Likely they will just send you a whole new one.

Sounds like a good plan to me – I haven't used nail polish as Locktite before but hey, it should work!

Let them fix it man…..then you'll have piece of mind

Wish I could help….but mine's in the mail and now I am nervous I made a mistake.

I probably would just contact them and send it in. I'm sure they have the special tools for it. Plus that might fall under their guarantee, at least it should. If you try to fix it and some thing else goes wrong then you might be SOL. Keep us posted.

Contact them first! Would love to know about the customer service; In the future, one word, Vortex 😉

If I wasn't going to be shooting for a bit I would ship it back to the factory and let the warranty take care of it. Good luck buddy!

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