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

[Qholum37]

It has never happened to me thankfully, but I have seen others forget to dial back down after dialing for long shots and then miss up close.

 

[canyonhunter47]

Does a kid reaching over from his car seat to twist the windage a mil or two count?

 

[voltage]

Does a kid reaching over from his car seat to twist the windage a mil or two count?

I only let my child play with guns without scopes in his car seat.

 

[voltage]

I have never had a dial turn unintentionally. There was a time I shot a whitetail at 650 in Missouri. Following that shot, I put the rifle into the case, took it to Montana, hunted for a couple days, and then shot at a mulie buck at 225. I missed it three times. Fortunately for me, he was significantly more interested in the couple hotties he was hanging out with. After the third miss, I realized the problem, and dialed back to 0. That buck made it back to Missouri with me. I’m very grateful for that experience as it was a good lesson learned with no consequences besides a couple wasted rounds.

 

[actionshooter]

Yes.... Brooks Range float trip for moose/caribou. When I am rowing, the rifle stays tucked between my seat and a dry bag, barrel pointed down toward the front. We had already been on the river for over a week (17 day trip) and had taken 3 caribou previously. As we rounded a bend there was a herd of 20 or so crossing the river but only had 2 bulls, got to the bank and my buddy was out shooting 1st, took an awesome bull. I jumped out, layed over the bow and shot a smaller bull at about 80 yds.... or so I thought. Our other hunting partner was a few hundred yards down river in a raft solo and heard him shot a minute later, I thought there must have been another bull that we hadn't seen. Nope, I looked for blood for a bit while following the direction the heard went and it took me straight to my partner who was downstream with my bull.... well actually it was his. I missed it clean and couldn't believe it, I was 100% sure I hit it. Took me a few minutes but I figured out my VX3 4.5-14 dial had spun a full revolution pulling it out..... that was the LAST time I have hunted with a dial without a lock.

 

[Marble]

I just check it as often as I check my safety. I've had those get hit too.

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[Firestone]

I missed a buck getting a rev off on my windage. Was packing out a bull and saw it moved a few clicks, so I zeroed it and forgot about it, well a few clicks was actually a lot and now I am zeroed a foot right at 100 ended up taping the turret for the rest of the season and never used that scope again

 

[LFC911]

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.

I had this happen to me running around CO one year on an ATV and the bouncing around in the scabbard or pulling it in and out would dial elevation on the scope. It didn't have a zero stop, so i quickly sold that scope after the hunt.

 

[limpet]

Yep. I noticed my turret was off by a mil so I put back to zero, well it must have been off by 9 mils and I didn’t know it because there is no rev indicator on that leupold. Long story short I put 2 slugs below the brisket of a charging bear at 6-8 yards. Thankfully the shot had her abort anyways. After I settled down I went after her thinking I must have wounded her when I ran into her at 20 yards and missed low again. I couldn’t find any blood and went back and found impacts in the dirt right between skid marks from her paws. I went and checked zero and I was a full rev low at my zero distance of 50 yards (slug gun). The gun spent the rest of the year with tape on the turret.