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POI shift - what happened here
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<blockquote data-quote="Bravo 4" data-source="post: 1268581" data-attributes="member: 8873"><p>As Greyfox said, confirm it on another day. And bigngreen is right as well that even a Nightforce can go bad, it's just not as likely as most other brands.</p><p>Something I didn't read about is any time between groups to cool down...?</p><p>If it shoots poi as it should on your next outing I would suspect a heated barrel may be changing the poi. Example: While shooting in a long range match in Missoula MT a hand full of years back with an issued M24, I realized that somewhere at rounds 10-12 the poi would drop 1 solid moa. I would run strings fast and it was predictable, but only enough that at round 10 I knew to look for it and knew it would drop that one round and I would have to add 1 "click" up at get it back into the 10 ring. </p><p>Point is, if the zero is back to normal next outing either heat it up and see or just don't let it heat up again. If it's a hunting/target rifle and not for competition then I wouldn't let it heat up again anyways. Hunting rifles I won't usually shoot more than 3 rounds at a time before it cools. I don't care what it'll do at round 5 or 10 or 20, totally different with a rifle that'll get 20 round strings through it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bravo 4, post: 1268581, member: 8873"] As Greyfox said, confirm it on another day. And bigngreen is right as well that even a Nightforce can go bad, it's just not as likely as most other brands. Something I didn't read about is any time between groups to cool down...? If it shoots poi as it should on your next outing I would suspect a heated barrel may be changing the poi. Example: While shooting in a long range match in Missoula MT a hand full of years back with an issued M24, I realized that somewhere at rounds 10-12 the poi would drop 1 solid moa. I would run strings fast and it was predictable, but only enough that at round 10 I knew to look for it and knew it would drop that one round and I would have to add 1 "click" up at get it back into the 10 ring. Point is, if the zero is back to normal next outing either heat it up and see or just don't let it heat up again. If it's a hunting/target rifle and not for competition then I wouldn't let it heat up again anyways. Hunting rifles I won't usually shoot more than 3 rounds at a time before it cools. I don't care what it'll do at round 5 or 10 or 20, totally different with a rifle that'll get 20 round strings through it. [/QUOTE]
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