Originally Posted by
ctom
I don't like hearing of injured animals. In my opinion if you are consistent at 200-300 with a .243, then you should be practicing how to stalk to those distances and call it good enough to keep your shots inside those parameters. It may be such a thing that
"as long as no one touches, bumps, breathes on the scope after I zero!" isn't really the gun or scope. Think about it.
It's not the shooter this time. We have a rifle range at the ranch and when I took it back it was off 5 MOA from the zero I put on it 2 days earlier. Had the scope kept its zero it would have hit the antelope right in the kill zone. Have you ever tried to stalk antelope on completely flat terrain wearing blaze orange? 400 was as close as we were going to get to this one. It hit him right in front of the back leg. Looked like he was going to bleed out and then he recovered and ran away with the herd.