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My Coonass buddies take good care of me, taking me fishing on Toledo Bend, and saltwater fishing in the Gulf of LA. I take good care of them by taking them whitetail deer hunting in the TX Panhandle. We had weather ranging from 70* to 18*, sunny, ice, sleet. I like hunting off of a bluff overlooking a pretty dense creekbottom. It is very rocky. One morning when we were making our way to this vantage point, my buddy slipped on a slick rock, taking a spill and dropping his rifle which caromed off a couple more rocks. It is a Tikka 695 7mag, Optilocks, and a 3.5-10x VX3.





Naturally we wanted to check zero, and lo and behold the POS Leupold hadn't budged. Yes, I would expect most any scope to need adjusting after that, but his one did not. Later he smacked this bruiser......weighed almost 250lbs before field dressing. My buddy weighs 235, for reference.