How often is your scope off after hunt?

[nwmnbowhunter]

I do my best to baby my rifle- scope.

If i bump it, I check zero.

Strong rings and good scopes help a ton with the soft little bumps/ rifle tipping off rest to ground type stuff.

Bedding rifle scope also helps a lot.

 

[trout004]

I run Burris XTR 3's on hunting rigs and haven't had problems with zeros even after many long days on the rough side x side roads.

 

[QuietTexan]

This is the exact reason I tell guys the scope is more important than the rifle. You can function check everything except your zero without firing a shot, so get the best you can to get your feel-goods right.

Sucks this happened with Leupolds, I really like my VX5-HD 2-10x scopes. I've found them to be solid and reliable even when getting bounced and dropped and generally beat up all over the ranch. No bedding or truing rings, and usually with no loc-tite on anything either. Just a fat wrench when I put it together the first time. I haven't driven over one yet, but dropped and fallen out yes.

My "once in a lifetime" Stratton rifle has a Tangent Theta on it. Seemed like any other scope wasn't deserving of sitting on top of something so perfect. He beds everything including the rings and I haven't touched it at all. It was within a a couple clicks of being zeroed out of the case after he shipped it to me, and that was with different ammo than he tested with. That's definitely the rifle I have the most confidence in.

 

[Barrelnut]

Never had a problem. But, then again, I use Vortex exclusively.

 

[nubraskan]

I used to use vortex vipers / razors exclusively. Had trouble holding zero over time, generally it would be fine for a hunt and then randomly one day I'd check zero and it would be off a couple inches. Switched over to nightforce and haven't had an issue yet in the past couple years

 

[toddh1971]

Just got back from a horseback elk hunt. Leupold rode over 100 miles in a scarab. Still holds zero.

 

[coop2564]

Depends on what you mean. Rare - I validate zero and dope before every hunt and sometimes there are small corrections based on where I am, this is normal.
Actually truly off? Only time I can think of is fell off a horse on a backcountry hunt onto the rifle...scope included. Yup it was off! LOL

Yeah, I've had to make small zero corrections from time to time usually. 75" or so, hunting in different elevations or completely different weather. But 2" I had I think we're more than that. I can see the ruger wood stock causing it to get off. It got soaked 2 days in a row. I can see the wood causing the change. The bergara fell right on the windage turret dial enough to dent it. So not very surprised it jumped too. Just wondering how often others had similar experiences. Thanks for your responses.

 

[Jon Bischof]

As you can see from this thread, there are a lot of factors that may cause POI shift other than the scope internals having shifted.

1. It can be the base.
2. It can be the rings.
3. It can be the bedding between stock and receiver.
4. It can be a shift in the stock itself.

Which one of these is the cause of the shift may not be readily apparent until you practice a process of elimination.