Originally Posted by
djc227
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.
You missed in deflection, which is rare. Most of the misses are in elevation.
Maybe your scope got solidly bumped during transport of the rifle. I'm always pretty careful about that. Scope mount screws come loose? I really like my Kahles scopes, built like a brick. Somebody pushed my car door shut when I had my rifle leaning with the butt on the ground and barrel on the seat back. It put a ding in my scope tube, but luckily enough my zero didn't change any. Like I said, built like a brick.