How many have missed animals due to a failed scope?

[sierracharlie338]

Why is your turret cocked to the left? I can see the reticle is not inline with the turret but what's with the scope.

Possibly an illumination control as seen on the early Vortex lines. They sat at a 45 angle on the ocular housing.

 

[bigsky_hunter]

In 2020 shot at my PB whitetail with muzzleloader and 3-9x40 vortex viper. Scope was zeroed prior to season and no noticeable drops or hits to it.
Deer was at 100 yds broadside and I hit it in front knee. Stumbled away on 3 legs. I was able to track it down and finish it thankfully. I wasn’t sure if it was buck fever or equipment. Confirmed a week later scope had shifted the same as my POA to POI on the deer.
In my opinion it was a miss and led me to re-evaluating my gear and making changes. Also got me reading on this forum that my experience with vortex is not an isolated incident.

 

[S-3 ranch]

In 1982 I had a used rem 700 .270 with a redfield wide field 3x9 my dad had my uncle buy as a Xmas present and it never held zero ever, missed a few deer with it and then the reticals broke
Replace it with a leupold 3x9

 

[TxLite]

Why is your turret cocked to the left? I can see the reticle is not inline with the turret but what's with the scope.

That’s the illumination knob on the gen 1 pst

 

[ChrisAU]

In 2017 I had one of my target bucks step out at last light around 150 yards. Had the ol trusty Leupold 3-18 VX6HD on 3x, went to zoom in a bit and a lens shattered internally turning the image black. That was the last primary use Leupy I had.

 

[hunterjmj]

That’s the illumination knob on the gen 1 pst

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I see

 

[Seeknelk]

Yep...drew a nice muley tag finally back in 18. Ended up hitting a nice buck way too high...barely clipped his back I think. Checked zero and it was no longer zeroed. Was hitting high. Vortex PST. Absolutely loved the warranty that day! Came in so clutch. Never used it again.

 

[robtattoo]

I had a Vortex diamondback on my last Savage .223. It fell over in the safe & by fell over, i literally mean the muzzle shifted 6" before stopping against the rifle next to it. I never gave it a second thought.
I hunted with it the next day & wound up missing 3 deer with 10 shots, the furthest being 80yds.

Took it to the range & I was hitting 4 FEET left at 100yds.

That was the last Vortex I had & I didn't even mess with the warranty (id already sent 4 or 5 things back) I tossed the damn thing & I've been SWFA all the way ever since.

 

[roadrunner]

Zero failures, zero misses.

 

[Thegman]

I (mostly) missed a black bear once with one of my Redfield Revolutions that was on my Tikka 30-06. I say mostly because there was a little blood, but nothing fatal apparently. Got home and checked it and it was about 3 inches off at 100 yards from where it should have been. Sent it to Leupold to check and they said it was fine and returned it.

I put one of my Leupold 2-7s on the Tikka, none of which have ever lost zero in 15 years or so. I've long since lost track of exactly which Revolution scope that was (I have a few of them) but I still use them and that hasn't ever happened again with any of them...?

 

[JDBAK]

Me, 4 deer on 2 hunts. Shot about 2-3 MOA low, missed and had to correct. Leupold 1.5-5.
Partner, zero shifted 6 MOA right. Weaver K-4
Partner, zero shifted about 12 MOA high. SWFA 10x.

In all cases zero was checked after the hunt

 

[JDBAK]

There are probably more, but those are the ones that come to mind that I actually went back and confirmed zero on after being baffled. All shots were prone with rest.

 

[RockAndSage]

A heck of a lot more people have probably missed game because of scopes shifting than they actually realize.