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Exposed windage turrets for hunting.
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<blockquote data-quote="brant89" data-source="post: 2215529" data-attributes="member: 49553"><p>I have had two separate issues with windage turrets moving on me during a hunt. 2015 in Wyoming I lined up a 500yd shot on a pronghorn doe with my .260AI and hit nothing but air with no idea where the bullet went. Assuming I overcorrected for wind I made an adjustment and still hit nothing. I chalked it up to a terrible wind call and at this point I was questioning everything I thought I knew about long range shooting . The following day I crawled to the top of a ridge to get into position on two does bedded at 240 yards and sent a bullet right into the larger doe's guts. This was followed by several failed attempts to put her down until finally connecting AMAX to spinal cord. Went back to the range to check zero and found that my windage turret had spun nearly a half rotation WITH A NEOPRENE COVER ON in my scabbard. Even if I had checked the turret I would not have been confident on which direction it had turned since it was basically 180 degrees from where it should have been. Immediately after that hunt I sold off all hunting optics with exposed windage turrets and replaced them with Vortex Viper HS LR FFP scopes. Fast forward several years and I borrowed by stepdads 6.5CM to eliminate a coyote that had been hitting a bait pile right at twilight where I needed an illuminated reticle (illuminated scope was in for repair but that's a story in itself). Saw a beautiful chocolate colored coyote on my deer carcass at 220 yards, grabbed the rifle out of the safe, and got set up. Touched one off and watched the dog take off, which is not what usually happens when coyotes take a frontal hit with a 129SST. First thing I checked was the windage turret, and sure enough, half rotation off even with a neoprene cover on sitting in a gun safe. Lesson re-learned. In summary, windage turrets can get rotated even with a scope cover and the only sure way to make sure this doesn't happen is with locking or capped turrets. Scopes in both scenarios were Gen 1 Viper PST's.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brant89, post: 2215529, member: 49553"] I have had two separate issues with windage turrets moving on me during a hunt. 2015 in Wyoming I lined up a 500yd shot on a pronghorn doe with my .260AI and hit nothing but air with no idea where the bullet went. Assuming I overcorrected for wind I made an adjustment and still hit nothing. I chalked it up to a terrible wind call and at this point I was questioning everything I thought I knew about long range shooting . The following day I crawled to the top of a ridge to get into position on two does bedded at 240 yards and sent a bullet right into the larger doe's guts. This was followed by several failed attempts to put her down until finally connecting AMAX to spinal cord. Went back to the range to check zero and found that my windage turret had spun nearly a half rotation WITH A NEOPRENE COVER ON in my scabbard. Even if I had checked the turret I would not have been confident on which direction it had turned since it was basically 180 degrees from where it should have been. Immediately after that hunt I sold off all hunting optics with exposed windage turrets and replaced them with Vortex Viper HS LR FFP scopes. Fast forward several years and I borrowed by stepdads 6.5CM to eliminate a coyote that had been hitting a bait pile right at twilight where I needed an illuminated reticle (illuminated scope was in for repair but that's a story in itself). Saw a beautiful chocolate colored coyote on my deer carcass at 220 yards, grabbed the rifle out of the safe, and got set up. Touched one off and watched the dog take off, which is not what usually happens when coyotes take a frontal hit with a 129SST. First thing I checked was the windage turret, and sure enough, half rotation off even with a neoprene cover on sitting in a gun safe. Lesson re-learned. In summary, windage turrets can get rotated even with a scope cover and the only sure way to make sure this doesn't happen is with locking or capped turrets. Scopes in both scenarios were Gen 1 Viper PST's. [/QUOTE]
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