Thanks, I will. This is about my 20th rifle build and I am having heck finding a decent load for it. Tonight I tried a 180 Nosler BT, let me back up just a little, after this morning session the sights have consistently hit to the right about 2" so I made an adjustment, the first shot was dead 12 o'clock, the next shot about 2 o'clock and I thought here we go again, and then the third shot, it was almost a single hole but not quite. It was getting too late to put together another round so I still don't know if that was really good or really lucky. Who knows at this point. The scope, don't laugh, is a Simmons original Atec that I have sitting atop several rifles. I have had excellent luck with these scopes out to 500 yards and I know them like the back of my hand. With that said I was not surprised once the 3rd shot hit the 2nd knowing that the Simmons can move around like that after an adjustment before it settles in, I just forgot for a few minutes.
I once decided to move up to a high-dollar scope and I bought a Leupold Mark 4 long range 30mm tube scope. I had a turret knob laser etched to my load and had good luck with it until one day it would not hold zero at 100 yds. I sent it off, it was repaired and sent back. Two years ago while on an out-of-state hunt I had a shot at a buck at 300 yds. I made the shot, the deer was standing in snow broadside, and I saw the bullet hit about a foot or more above the deer. Crap this was the second time this hight dollar scope failed me, the first time could have been devastating because of where I worked and what I did, the second time it cost me a buck on my first out of state hunt, which I confirmed on the bench when I got home. Again it would not hold zero at 100 yds and no neither time did I drop or bump or anything else to the Leupold. I sent it back and demanded a different scope in return which we came to an agreement. Moneywise I took it in the shorts but there was NO way I could ever trust that scope to be anything but a paper puncher so that's why I took the deal they offered.
Again the Simmons has never failed me, I know it like the back of my hand, so no reason to hang my head, it works and works well. I just wished I could find a few more brand new ones in the box.
