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What a coinkydink! Yesterday at the range a guy comes over to the 50 from the 100 because he can’t get his Axis on paper. Still not on paper at 50, so I tell him to remove the bolt and drag my Hart rest over and we put his gun in it. It’s a foot right at 50, sighting through the barrel. He holds up one of those dinky laser thingys and asks what I think of it, like he doesn’t already know. Anyway, I helped him boresight it, showing him how instead of just doing it for him.

That .30/06 Axis was kicking his ass BTW, and everything he tried doing with it was a struggle: dropping the mag and removing/replacing the bolt. He fussed about that some, so I asked how much he paid for it. “$200”, he said. I said, “well, there you go”.

Our local Wal-Mart's manager was a personal hunting friend. He increased his sporting goods department. He expanded the hunting merch, including firearms. He hired knowledgeable personnel & would special order items upon request. It was good while it lasted.

I usually bore sight at 25 yards and typically find the first shot within an inch or so at that range. I’d never hunt without shooting, but that accuracy would kill very many of the deer I’ve taken. They are pretty big and are often shot at close range.

I've seen that myself, but only once at the B. Amateur
Shop. I forgot exactly what it was because it's been
a long time and I don't usually go there.
I requested to look at some something, and the
"Pro" picked it off the rack and was looking it
over before handing it to me and was having
trouble looking through the scope for whatever
reason. He diddled with it and diddled some
more, and another "pro" walked over and they
both diddled. I finally asked what the deal
was and he told me that the scope was defective.
He got close enough to the counter that I
could see it was mounted backwards. There
were like 3 or 4 together on the rack with the
scopes mounted backwards in the same way.

One of the many reasons I've tried to get
others to patronize the local businesses

Wow! That reminds me of a similar event.

It was about 18 years ago that a coworker dropped a bunch of $$$ on a stainless Ruger #1 and scope setup at a very large and well known sporting goods retailer here in Michigan. He was proudly showing it to me when it was noticed that the scope had been mounted with a cant. Knowing that I'm fairly "gunny", he asked if I had the right screwdriver to fix it. I did, and proceeded to loosen all 4 screws on the rear ring cap, then moved to the front cap, where I found all 4 cap screws loose; not even snugged.

This is just another reason why I and alone mount my scopes and sight my rifles.