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Sold my scoped .06 to my nephew next door. I just now have only my 336/30/30 with iron sights. It has never failed me in 43 years!
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I hunt in many places that I don't get a second chance if a big game animal was missed because the rifle was not zeroed in. I make it a practice to eliminate that. Even if I just walk out the door of my house or cabin I want the confidence to know that rifle is zeroed in. No thought process that hell it was right on a year, two years, etc. ago.
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I go hunting [900 miles from home] a week early to have a sight in day with no wind.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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Gunsmith boresighting and zeroing are NOT the same thing. Boresighting only gets you "on the paper" zeroing confirms the rifle is shooting to point of aim.
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Always. Checked the zero on my AR-15 350 Legend yesterday. I'm ready for gun season the Monday after Thanksgiving.
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I hunt in many places that I don't get a second chance if a big game animal was missed because the rifle was not zeroed in. I make it a practice to eliminate that. Even if I just walk out the door of my house or cabin I want the confidence to know that rifle is zeroed in. No thought process that hell it was right on a year, two years, etc. ago. This, while typing from a walk tent hoping to get a single crack at a buck. But I know where he lives...
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Rockinbbar: Absolutely - my Rifles are checked every year before season. And sadly I check "the zero" anywhere from 4 to 7 Rifles for my (lazy) friends - mostly the ones with 300 Weatherby's and various 300 Magnums! I do NOT enjoy the latter but I respect the game (Antelope, Deer & Elk) to much to let my friends go afield with guns not sighted for two years or longer. Of course I am retired and have been for a long time and word gets around amongst my still working friends. Use caution when agreeing to "double-checking/sighting-in" your friends guns - word WILL get around. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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I like to shoot. I shoot year round. Several of the rifles I hunt with I rarely shoot when "shooting". Some of the hunters I'll only shoot to check zero....like the .358 I've used the last couple of weeks. Others I'll shoot off/on all year. I do always check zero, either from the front porch or driveway.....there's steel hung and painted, it only takes a minute and I like knowing for sure.
The last couple of years I've learned I really dislike reloading....but because I love to shoot I do it.
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I hunt in many places that I don't get a second chance if a big game animal was missed because the rifle was not zeroed in. I make it a practice to eliminate that. Even if I just walk out the door of my house or cabin I want the confidence to know that rifle is zeroed in. No thought process that hell it was right on a year, two years, etc. ago. Me too, usually I go out back, smack my 300 yd gong and roll, this year I just loaded er up, drove to Wyoming and went huntin.
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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I do but then I shoot year round so I'm almost always up to date. Put on a different scope a week ago friday though so last Saturday I zeroed it. Season opens next Saturday so I'm ready.
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I have one rifle that I've killed 9 deer with in the past 8 years. It was sighted in prior to killing the 1st deer, it has only been fired in anger since then.
I killed one last year with a rifle that hasn't seen paper since 2006. This stuff isn't complicated
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Yes, and if I travel somewhere very far I check again.
Figures don't lie, But Liars figure Assumption is the mother of mistakes
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Yes, and if I travel somewhere very far I check again. Yep.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
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Confirming zero is easy, cheap and a salute to general murphy. Finding stuff to kill is fun but a lot of work and I know who to blame if I botch an opportunity mike r
Don't wish it were easier Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that. Craig Douglas ECQC
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I $hit you not, 😁 we had an old codger, I mean a real nedreck, shoot his rifle one day at the camp and he hit about 10” left. He said, “good to go”.
Everyone standing around asked, “aren’t you going to move it to center?” And as serious as a heart attack, he answered, “naw, if they’re running I won’t have to lead ‘em as much”. 😳
And away he went to his stand.
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I have one rifle that I've killed 9 deer with in the past 8 years. It was sighted in prior to killing the 1st deer, it has only been fired in anger since then.
I killed one last year with a rifle that hasn't seen paper since 2006. This stuff isn't complicated Whose sock-puppet?
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I check em every year. Just in case.
Also check ammo of differing lot # for repeatability.
Last edited by hookeye; 11/06/21.
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I have one rifle that I've killed 9 deer with in the past 8 years. It was sighted in prior to killing the 1st deer, it has only been fired in anger since then.
I killed one last year with a rifle that hasn't seen paper since 2006. This stuff isn't complicated Whose sock-puppet? What? Does what I do offend you? Are you a better hunter if you do something different?
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I check em every year. Just in case.
Also check ammo of differing lot # for repeatability. Why don't you check them daily? Did something happen between the last day you hunted and today? How about between the 2nd to last day?
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