I’m not complaining, just enjoying what folks have to say, especially the hunting stories.
When someone has a scope failure during a hunt in one week of the year, I wonder what happened the other 51 weeks that gave them the confidence to use it on a hunt. Scopes follow simple physics of how they are handled and shot - they don’t know what tag you have or know the difference between a bump against something at the range or a tree. If a rifle is carried around shooting rock chucks, rocks, or coyotes, that’s pretty close to the same handling it encounters hunting, with many more rounds down range.
Honestly it would be entertaining to watch videos of the life of a scope showing every event in its history that knocked it off kilter. I bet it would show some bad habits people didn’t realize they have. It’s like the first time a kid shoots a crease in the hood of dad’s pickup when leaning over the truck to poke at a critter way out there. The number of low bipods is an easy source to point to for many malfunctions blamed on scopes. I stopped hunting with low bipods, primarily because they struggle to be tall enough to reach over things, and also when at the absolute lowest level to the ground where awareness of dirt, rocks, low branches, or whatnot is critical, the mechanics of setting a rifle down on the bipod and rotating the butt up to the shoulder helps to hide these things. Giant miss shooting down hill ups the odds even more.
Don’t get me wrong, if scopes are going crazy I wish guys would do a better job of documenting it over time. A notebook with a history of every elevation and windage adjustment is so much more interesting. Most ranges I’ve been to are pretty windy and it’s easy to lose track of how many guys shoot and complain the groups keep moving back and forth 1/2” from week to week, or even throughout the day. Duh, wind does actually affect 100 yard groups. It’s entertaining that they adjust scopes back and forth so much, and I’ve even caught myself wanting to do it without confirming it’s a wind issue.
