Ha, no worse feeling and it suxs when that happens. Was it rings or scope?

Right before this years sheep hunt I was practicing shooting out to 700, and to get over 600 I had to get more elevation so decided to climb on top of my mule pro roof. Long story short after shooting, I fell off and dropped a NF NXS8 7’ from roof of a mule directly one to a rocky tank dam as I fell. I about [censored] my pants, I crawled off the ground looked at my rifle cried and then checked zero and it was dead on. scope cap was scratched pretty good though.


The Leupold that quit me on my last bear hunt never fell but was in saddle scabbard for a bunch of miles. Leupold sent me a new one. It’s my daughter’s gun so I replaced it with 2.5-10 NF.

Someone needs to up their inch pounds.

You are correct. Come up 5, reshoot. If it's still a 1/4 low, come up again.

I was after this one.......never saw him again.....



My son got this nice buck though.......Tikka CTR 260/130 AB's

Yeah, but does it have a Vortex scope?

Here it comes........it's yet another scope that the internet will tell you sucks......a 3-15x Tract Toric. It's been bombproof for 7 years.

Two beautiful deer Jgr!

The thing I hate about the “independent” drop test is it’s a sample of 1. Bottom line is if you drop a scope, you better check it…I don’t care who makes it.

I dropped an old vx2 off a shooting bench on concrete, scratched the hell out of it. Shot it and it was off…rezeroed and shot it a full year with no ill effects.

I have a Tract Toric UHD 4.5-30x56 ELR. Almost unused because the rifle it's on is having problems. I think I'll like the scope despite it being the wrong one for the rifle and shooting distance. The scope is way too much and too big. Other than that it checked all my boxes.

That a boy!! Suxs that’s 190 plus frame,

I’m jealous, I was supposed to be in NM chasing tail end of rut with bow, but wife snuck a family trip in…. Unfortunately it’s her entire family

Think a lot of rings fail/slip and scope gets blamed.

They have been drop testing each shipment of the Maven, I think I’ve seen 4 or 5 now. But it would be insanity not to check zero on a bad drop, and there is a drop point that all scopes will fail.

Over the years, I’ve only had two significant ‘drop’ tests. The first one had the rifle strapped to me. The ladder stand broke and I fell backwards for a couple of feet and landed on my Leupold Vari-X III 4.5-14 and my beloved Sako 270, landing on rocks. That hurt. Scope was fine. The other time was when I was off to coyote hunt. I had to open a gate, so I left my 220 and Leupold 6.5-20 leaning on the seat. The Kubota vibration caused the rifle to slip and fall. Made quite a clatter. The scope zero was knocked off pretty bad. Yes, the gun was not loaded.

Most of my scopes are Leupold, with a Burris or two, a Vortex PST-1, and a couple of Athlons. I’m not a turret twister. Don’t need it for what I do. But, if I was gonna spend big bucks and hunt hard in hard places, I’d probably upgrade to something indestructible. Maybe even with turrets.

Jgr, great bucks. Especially the live one. Wow.

603 this is a good point, on my blind hunting gun- which I use 95% of the time I also use a Leupold. I never have to use anything but zoom. 100 yard shot almost always. For this application I still like Leupold.

I had a Razor Gen 3 6-36 out at my place (buddy's scope) recently. It was one of the clearest scopes I've ever seen, and I've seen nearly all of the really high end stuff. I have no idea how build quality stacks up against the big dogs. I'm confident brands like Nightforce have less issues than most others. On the filp side, I've heard of more than a few issues with Kahles, S&B, Minox, etc., and compared to the number of Vortex scopes out there, you don't hear of many issues in the Japanese or American made Razor scopes (Chinese made Razor spotters is a different discussion). I'm not sure what's eventually going to replace my Japanese-made Delta STryker, but I'd consider the Vortex Razor for sure.

The Vortex Gen 3’s are bad az$. If they ever make one not a 10x or 36x I might be in