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Myriad ways and settings in which to hunt big game. A 3' drop isn't uncommon when carrying a rifle in hand while walking the better part of a day over rough terrain. When snow tracking through blow down infested timber and swamps and/or limb strewn cut overs, I would say that it's not uncommon for most to experience several trips and slips in a day, some of which will eventually result in a rifle drop or impact.

You Drooling CLUELESS Fhuqktards are a HOOT,as you "live" vicariously. The bench is 1" steel plate,were it MPAJ,I'd of simply cited same. Hint.

Keep filing Hurt Feeler Reports,waxing eloquent upon your very WELL founded Brokedick Insecurities and Fantasizing wares wayyyyyyyyyyy beyond your "means","abilities" and "comprehension". Fortunately for you gals,Imagination and Pretend are free,so even Crying CLUELESS Kchunts can "afford" to "contribute". Hint.

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Failure to have a consistent cant. A missed 3mph. "Shouldering" the rifle. Poor NPA. Poor reticle focus, astigmatism. Lack of follow through.

My brother is fifty years of age and has been hunting since he was sixteen, I know he hasn't had any scopes fail as I supply his gear. He shot camels for coin and didn't have any failures then either.
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3' drops probably happen with some regularity to guided/outfitted hunters using horses/stock and scabbards they don't normally use. Probably happens to the regular users of same from time to time as well. Horse/Mule gives a wiggle while the rifle is going in/out of the scabbard and the rifle is out of your hands.

People hunting afoot in any sort of slick conditions. Snow/ice, mud, that nasty-slick bentonite/gumbo, pushing/walking/deer-drives through CRP or Cattails is still common in the prairie states and any of that stuff can wrap around your feet and trip you. Then of course if you add "steep" to "slippery" anywhere you're hunting afoot, drops can, do, and will happen.

Scopes it's let me down at the worst time I've been the same sort of two different Nikon monarch UCC.. the last ones I ever owned there may be a reason they're out of the rifle scope business. they made it right they sent me new ones but I never mounted the new ones.

They sure did not for me. Maybe it's different now, This was in the later '90s.

What kind of hunter wouldn't check zero anyway after one of these "common use" mishaps? If you don't you're an idiot.

Thank you. Exactly my point.

Even if a drop test under controlled conditions didn't result in any POI shift, the next drop or fall could move it 2 feet

I check zero on my whichever rifles I’m hunting with before season.
Had a few eye openers.

I've had my fair share of disappointments,by simply taking a NIB Reupold out of it's wrapper and shooting it atop Splendid Wares,hunting for a zero,tracking and repeats to no avail. Hint.

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One of the little touted uses of a Collimator such as the Bushnel bore sighter is to note where your cross hairs are on the grid when sighted in. If you have a misfortune while hunting and have the device with you, you can check and see if the scope has moved. Not much extra weight in your pack/side by side.

I'm sure you've had MORE than your share of disappointment.

I was wondering who was going to swing at the easy pitch over the plate. I half expected an "every morning when you look in the mirror" response......

It is fascinatingly HILARIOUS,how very often Whining CLUELESS Kchunts think about me,as they "live" vicariously in Brokedicktitude. Hint.

Reupold's puke easily and often. Hint.








Though they are handy for (1) thing. Hint.





Flagship puke. Hint.





Play your cards right though and you'll get your Reupold Spotter returned with a rebuilt erector assembly. Hint.



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I don’t think it’s realistic to recheck zero every time the rifle takes a common knock or after it rides in an ATV, truck or horse in some rough conditions. When I’m backpacking hunting in the mountains for sheep or goats, my rifle gets knocked and bumped on rocks often. It’s almost impossible to avoid and it’s impractical to recheck zero after every incident. At least with some testing beforehand, one can get some confidence that the scope and mounts can handle being used in tough conditions. The tests done in the link I provided are not extreme at all and if a scope and mounts don’t hold up to them, then it probably shouldn’t be trusted on a tough hunt.

^^^^^ This.

There have been hunts I'd run out of ammo if I checked my scope after every fall. Steep slopes, snow, rocks/logs make for more than a few falls. Add before/after daylight and a fall or two is almost guaranteed. Id much rather own a rifle and scope capable of a few bumps and bruiss.

The stuggle boat floats with the current.

I went to NFLD this last fall, walked something like 72 miles in 6 rainy foggy days, shot my caribou on the last morning. In that 6 days I walked 72 some miles. I had my feet go out from under me many times and probably landed on my butt or back with a slung rifle pretty much every day. You can add in the typical, in and out of boats etc. In my case my shot was dead on on day 6, and I checked zero when I came back (for deer season) and and there was no shift.
A rifle/mount/scope should be able to hold zero through that kind of thing. It not practical to shoot to confirm zero every time you bump a rifle or fall on your butt.

I will say a hunt like my caribou hunt probably had about the same amount of scope abuse in it as what I do in a decade of hunting deer.