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<blockquote data-quote="Paladin300" data-source="post: 2976398" data-attributes="member: 115299"><p>Rant, forthcoming! OK, boys, men, ladies and gentlemen, let me explain something as simple as I can for those who don't understand. Most of your POI shifts have nothing to do with the scopes. It has everything to do with you. if you have poor form and don't line up behind a scope, exactly the same, get too far up in it, get too far out, to far left or right of the eye box, you're cheek welds not to same, or you don't shoulder that rifle the same, you cant the rifle, squeeze or grip the rifle differently, put your figure on the trigger differently, any of those things that you do can change your POI from one range session to the next. Every input you put into that weapon affects where that bullet is going to land. Your breathing, did drink a Red Bull, nerves etc. If you have poor form or technique and all of those things are different at every session your going to have a shift in POI, at 600 it will be a miss. You could own a $10000 piece of kit and it wouldn't help you. It ain't the scope. It is you! You can't shoot for beans. It does not take much to hit stuff on a single outing but to do repeatedly takes consistently good form. You have to do it the same every time. Just a slight right/left cant can cause a shot to be off a 1/2 inch which could translate into a miss further down range. I can't tell you how many guys show up at camp with a brand new Uber magnum $3000 scope $5000 rifle go out and miss a moose at 100 yards and blame it on the rifle because they shot it five times before they showed up at Camp, had somebody else sight it in and then thought they were gonna get it done, piece of cake, horse ****! They shoot and missed and then say "There must be something wrong with it." It ain't the gun! I was recently out in the mountains hiking and jumped down off a ledge I thought was about 3ft, it was 5ft. Slipped and fell and hit the back of my head. It wasn't a hard fall, no equipment damage, no broken bones but it disoriented me for a moment. You take a tumble like that and have to try and make a shot, even with good form, it could be difficult. 90% of misses and I would say shifting zeroes aren't equipment related! Rant over…</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paladin300, post: 2976398, member: 115299"] Rant, forthcoming! OK, boys, men, ladies and gentlemen, let me explain something as simple as I can for those who don't understand. Most of your POI shifts have nothing to do with the scopes. It has everything to do with you. if you have poor form and don't line up behind a scope, exactly the same, get too far up in it, get too far out, to far left or right of the eye box, you're cheek welds not to same, or you don't shoulder that rifle the same, you cant the rifle, squeeze or grip the rifle differently, put your figure on the trigger differently, any of those things that you do can change your POI from one range session to the next. Every input you put into that weapon affects where that bullet is going to land. Your breathing, did drink a Red Bull, nerves etc. If you have poor form or technique and all of those things are different at every session your going to have a shift in POI, at 600 it will be a miss. You could own a $10000 piece of kit and it wouldn't help you. It ain't the scope. It is you! You can't shoot for beans. It does not take much to hit stuff on a single outing but to do repeatedly takes consistently good form. You have to do it the same every time. Just a slight right/left cant can cause a shot to be off a 1/2 inch which could translate into a miss further down range. I can't tell you how many guys show up at camp with a brand new Uber magnum $3000 scope $5000 rifle go out and miss a moose at 100 yards and blame it on the rifle because they shot it five times before they showed up at Camp, had somebody else sight it in and then thought they were gonna get it done, piece of cake, horse ****! They shoot and missed and then say "There must be something wrong with it." It ain't the gun! I was recently out in the mountains hiking and jumped down off a ledge I thought was about 3ft, it was 5ft. Slipped and fell and hit the back of my head. It wasn't a hard fall, no equipment damage, no broken bones but it disoriented me for a moment. You take a tumble like that and have to try and make a shot, even with good form, it could be difficult. 90% of misses and I would say shifting zeroes aren't equipment related! Rant over… [/QUOTE]
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