How many have missed animals due to a failed scope?

[magnum44270]

Never a scope, but rings yes

 

[The Guide]

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@The Guide

Let me spell this out for you in crayons: no scope failures meaning no misses because of it. Doesn't surprise me you thought I referred to it as never missing since the very topic of the thread is about misses due to scope failures.

Complete flyby on both, wasn't it....

You didn't even know that you missed!

Jay

 

[JGRaider]

Been big game hunting since 1971, and guided over 1960 hunters decades later. There are many reasons for missing an animal your shooting at. 99% of the time it wasn't the scope's fault.

 

[roosiebull]

I know I have made a bad shot from losing zero, liver shot a buck a few years ago, ended up shooting him 4 times not understanding what was going on. The last shot I decided to shoot him in the neck to get him dead and that shot ended up being a good shot behind the shoulder, other 3 were back. Luckily I had some room to see him after the initial shot, if he was on the edge of brush, it would have been a tough deal

Was shooting about 4” right and a little high at 100yds when I was able to shoot. That was a vx3 with a cds elevation I never used, but man that scope really robbed confidence

I don’t think it ever stayed zeroed. Had a fixed 4 I used for a short while that was seemingly solid, but that was the only leupold that I have had that didn’t lose zero often. Usually not a bunch, but always 1-2” in some direction (never long periods between checking)

 

[Tx_300wsm]

I have twice. Once with a vortex diamondback, and the other time was with a leupold VX-3. The diamondback was a scope failure, couldn’t get it rezeroed afterwards, the leupold sits on my .22 now. Since switching to a Nightforce SHV and Warne rings the only time I’ve had to rezero is when I put on a suppressor.