Have you ever unintentionally dialed your scope on a hunt or otherwise?

[redchinviking]

Another thread made me wonder where everyone sits on this. I feel some think it’s a non-issue and some think it’s a potentially big issue. I have found my turret off a few clicks only a few times in my hunting career but now it makes me prefer a scope with turret locks.

This is really only important when having to take faster shots at shorter ranges because you should or could have more time to check your turrets at reasonably longer ranges but sometimes that’s not a luxury we are always afforded. But in all honesty I would say I usually have time.

Rare as it may be, in my case, this is mostly caused from turrets rubbing on backpack straps as I prefer to use a gun bearer on my pack for long approaches but other times it just happened somewhere along the way with heavy brush and branches.

I guess the next natural question is did it affect the outcome of your hunt? Luckily I can say no to that but a locking turret on a few of my scopes (and a capped windage) now almost always prevents that. Something tells me I’m not alone. Does a turret lock matter to you?

 

[alecvg]

I haven’t personally, but have seen dials get turned while going in and out of scabbards while guiding. I can think of one deer we killed that had several poor shots on it before we figured out what had happened.

 

[LookinforDirt]

Found my windage off 2-3 clicks my last hunt. I’m a lefty and sling my rifle over my left shoulder sometimes when hiking. The dial must have rubbed against my pack. Glad I noticed it because I took a quick offhand shot at a deer a couple hours later.

 

[MCS]

I had the windage turret turn on my old mark 4 when putting a stalk on a deer. I still got the deer but he got hit in the head instead of the chest.

 

[Shortschaf]

Yes they have spun. No I've never been burned. Check your turrets before shooting if you choose to have exposed ones

But yes, it would be better if scope manufacturers would just make them locking though

 

[waspocrew]

Nope, never had that happen. If I was packing in a ways or using scabbards, etc, I'd just make a habit of checking your turret when taking it out.

 

[Ucsdryder]

Yep. Missed the biggest buck of my life because of it, a giant nontypical.

 

[Colterw]

Intentionally? I was showing off the cool zero stop on my scope to a buddy and forgot that I had set the zero stop on my 6.5 rifle's scope and not on my 300.

Oops.

Had to re-zero because I also hadn't reset my turret.