I agree but that said, wouldn't that be true for rifles staying in the safe between January and October? Best practice is to check from start of the season until you hang it up for the year.
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Check your rifle zero before season starts
- Thread starter Allsmiles
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Yup. I annually check my 100 yard zero anyway, but every time I do, it’s right on the money. Tikka 6.5 PRC and Trijicon scope. Like a laser beam.
Started poppin turtles at my pond in Mississippi. Using a Savage 93 .22 magnum. Sighted it in with 50 gr. Went to a 30 gr varmint. Had to adjust due to the lighter bullet and have been blasting them since. Damn that 30 gr blows them up nicely.
I always checked just before the season starter. That's it
I remember back when I was much younger when scopes were built to last you didn't have to take them out every season and recheck the zero. No matter how many times you took them out they shot the same as last year. I remember old men not touching their rifle till the first day of the season, bag there deer and leave the rifle in the closet till the next season. You just don't get that kind of scope quality these days without having to pay the price of a new car for a scope that can do that these days. We are suppose to be heading forwards not backwards.
We used to do that the frogs in Oklahoma. There was some big old frogs out there in the farm ponds. The old 22 mag would flat blow a frog completely to a puff of green mist.
Hard to beat those Trijicon scopes for this specifically.
Agreed. I used to think that the slightly wandering zero with my Leupold scopes was normal. My Trijicon will put 3 shots through one ragged hole every year without adjustment, providing I use the same ammo.
Interesting. It's my Leupolds that don't need adjusting......Old Redfields and Nikons only a little. Only have one Bushnell left that still works and it's on a 22LR. And one old Tasco, never an issue on a 223
Mine wasn't knocked out of adjustment, just had to zero on a 25 yard range and set it up a little low then. I have a Vortex Viper HS 2.5x10x44 in good Vortex rings and everything was properly torqued down. I dissemble my rifle every time and put it in a discrete carry case for storage. My zero doesn't move, just wasn't set up correctly by me.
One other thing to consider, make sure if you hunt suppressed, that you have your hunting suppressor installed when doing your zero. It's amazing how much POI changes when you remove or add a suppressor with the same ammo.
One other thing to consider, make sure if you hunt suppressed, that you have your hunting suppressor installed when doing your zero. It's amazing how much POI changes when you remove or add a suppressor with the same ammo.
