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