Many of us have no need or desire to "shoot the box".
Example: 1978 I purchased a Win 670 in 30-06 and equipped it with a 2-7x32 Weaver V7. No, it did not move exactly to the clicks. It took ten or twelve rounds to sight it in.
Zeroed at 300 yds with 165 gr Speer hot core and later ballistic tips, it was good to go for over a decade. I killed hundreds and hundreds of ground squirrels with it from 20 yds to 300. It was lethal on big game to 500 yds. The trajectory matched the card on the stock exactly.
I certainly could never ask anything more of a scope.
Then I replaced the 30-06 with a 7mm STW and a 264. Scopes were upgraded to 4-12x40. Only then they were zeroed at 350 yds, and never moved again.
Sure, if one is shooting competitively or professionally beyond 500 yds, you are going to require dependable and repeatable turrets. But what percentage of us actually do that?
Before I went sheep hunting I purchased a dialing scope and practiced at various ranges for weeks. I shot the sheep at about sixty yards.
