Originally Posted by Cluggins
Originally Posted by mathman
Originally Posted by Cluggins

What percentage of shooters of any center fire rifles have round counts in the thousands? Hell, we can kill a deer a day for much of the hunting season here, and I still don't burn a box per year between my several rifles.


So then what percentage of shooters have a good basis for evaluating scope reliability?


What is reliability, what does it take to establish it, and what percentage of shooters ever get enough experience with a single scope to pronounce it reliable?


A buddy of mine dropped his rifle 18 ft. out of his tree stand season before last. It landed butt first and sheared the stock at the pistol grip. I bedded the barreled action into a new stock for him last summer. It still wears the same old Denver Redfield that was on the rifle when it fell from his stand. He killed four deer with it last season so I guess the scope passed the durability/reliability test.