I have a couple questions with the 'scope drop test':
-Is this being performed by only one or two individuals...otherwise unsupervised? Is the parameter of the shooter being "on" for each scope being tested accounted for? -Is the surface being dropped onto a constant?. Hard packed dirt. Pad or no pad. Snow pack??
Some of the faked tests are partially on video.
Random drop heights, surface unknown, variable impact points, horrible shooting form, improvised shooting rests, target impacts unknown, the list go on and on.
Traveling with rifle/scope in tool box with random tools.
Using 1.5 MOA rifle and factory ammo to discern .5-1 MOA shifts in zero.
Unsupervised just take his word for what happens.
Well, I'm not going to the length of accusing anyone of flat out faking the tests, but without a constant control group, multiple units of each scope tested, and constant environmental parameters, it could be easy to give more "attention" to those brands that one wanted to see pass such tests, and less to those that might be pandering to the crowd to fail. Just doesn't seem to be very well controlled.
