A lot of people like to blame their misses on the scope. It's convenient. Any time I have ever put the plus sign of a Leupold on an animal and pulled the trigger, the animal died. That's what scopes are for.
Paul, had my dad lined up on a coues buck once. At 200 yards. He got steady, took the shot, and missed. I checked the rifle later that day. Was 4MOA off to the right. Hadn't been dropped or hit hard or anything, since zeroing just before the hunt. A few days later, got back on the same buck, one drainage over, and he killed it. It had a graze across it's throat, where the POI would've been, with the scope being off 4MOA. I'll hedge my bets with scopes which don't shuffle on me. A click off here and there, sure, but doing the zero shuffle is overrated.
