Did you ever ask them how they ascertained that it wasn't a gun/stock/platform issue? They may have even changed ammo.
The bottom line is that the casual shooter, most shooters I'd say, aren't a reliable source for determining that the scope is the source of a shift.
It may also explain why to some the drop tests are interesting but ultimately inconsequential. And it may also explain why scopes other than the Form favorites are perfectly suitable.
I read all of the scope tests with interest and think they do a pretty good job of identifying rugged and repeatable scopes. I have had quite a few Leupolds and Leupold made Redfields over the years. Seven right now. Many of them rode in handlebar mounted gun racks on my ATV and were subject...
I just went to Leupold's website to check these out. The housing for the guts on these things is substantially larger than on many of their other models.
I'd get myself dismissed from the case if I knew I was incapable of fairly measuring the facts of the case against the language of the law. Otherwise, I'd have to hear all of the evidence then examine it against the law.
Since you have apparently been exposed to much more of this than I have, what were you seeing that these posters did to eliminate the gun and the mounting system as variables? Or are they simply accounts like yours. "I was just riding along with a gun in a case on my seat, and just like Form's...
I wonder what has caused more misses, scopes losing zero or a bunch of Arem Von Benedikts who overestimate their ability to hit at long range. I'd go with the latter.