Check your rifle zero before season starts

[mfoster]

It was good last year....................................

If it will hit a paper plate it will kill a deer,heard that from ol timers growing up.as a boy I can remember the ol tin building we had as a camp house completely lined up with shirt tails.no way todays hunters would hunt if you were lucky to see a deer in a week of hunting.

 

[mfoster]

I shoot my hunting rifle at least once a week during season its always 1”high at 100 guess just paranoid I done bumped it.

 

[BIKER13]

If it will hit a paper plate it will kill a deer,heard that from ol timers growing up.as a boy I can remember the ol tin building we had as a camp house completely lined up with shirt tails.no way todays hunters would hunt if you were lucky to see a deer in a week of hunting.

todays hunters? they cant even read sign,identify trees or blood trail.Gotta have cameras corn and a cushy seat

 

[GFB]

I wouldn’t take a rifle I hadn’t verified. What’s the drawback to a range trip? You can get some practice with the rifle and have better confidence in your setup after putting some rounds through it.

 

[BIKER13]

I shoot the rifle I deer hunt with all year. Works for me

 

[300_whisper]

Who doesn’t check their rifles? That’s insane. Especially since most hunters use $100 scopes and rest their barrels on a front bag.

 

[GFB]

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.

I think newer scopes are so much better overall.

 

[300_whisper]

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.

Greg, I love you man, but what are you talking about? A $300 scope is significantly better than a $1000 scope from 25 years ago. I would trust an Arken over a luepold MK4 any day of the week. All the old scopes we’ve seen the luepolds, Nikons, bushnells, redfield, etc are nowhere near the quality we see in the cheaper scopes of today. Scope tech has sky rocketed significantly in the past 20 years.

 

[basstracker89]

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.

Live and learn.....

 

[basstracker89]

If it will hit a paper plate it will kill a deer,heard that from ol timers growing up.as a boy I can remember the ol tin building we had as a camp house completely lined up with shirt tails.no way todays hunters would hunt if you were lucky to see a deer in a week of hunting.

It is a different world......