Dropping your rifle during a hunt?

[FLHTCUI]

There are two types.
The ones that have .
Then the ones who have yet too.
Rob

 

[apu]

I had a cheap Tasco on a 336 that I hunted for over 15 years and took countless deer and elk. The mount on rare occasion would loosen up and I would blame loss of zero because of this. Finally I "upgraded" the scope to a vintage K4. It wasn't until I took it in as a trade for a promotion that gave you $100 off on a new scope that I noticed that the old Tasco had a banana bend in the tube. Kinda felt bad when I only realized at the counter it was garbage but they still took it knowing about the damage. Got a sweet Nikon on sale with additional $100 off. To this day I have no idea where I must of dropped it hard enough to cause that bend. Oh well the old $75 Tasco literally owed me nothing.

Then there was an old Remington semi 308 with a huge objective dent on the attached Bushnell scope chief that I bought for cheap at an estate sale(largely because of the scope's condition). Clearly it had been dropped once or twice in its life and I thought for sure the scope was done, to my great surprise it shot fine. That old scope ain't pretty buts its tough as nails.

 

[WhelanLad]

One rule is if you ever drop a firearm you have to immediately pick it up and kiss it

Quoted for truth!

I'd never heard it mentioned before , is this the Backwoods Law ! if so, Im in.

 

[fingers284]

I dropped a scope (6-24 Tasco) on the floor a couple weeks ago, wasn't mounted to the rifle yet, when I looked through the damn thing it has a 1/8 moon shadow at the 12 o'clock position but the x hairs were still sharp, so thought "what the hell" , mounted it up to try it on a 45-70....fired three shots with it and that shadow disappeared and it still holds "O".

 

[Falconflyer]

And you know what they would fix that for ya to if you needed them as a hammer.

It could be said it’s a testament they can even fix them rather than replace.

Brand loyalty and emotions meh.

I've only ever sent one Leupold back despite haveing had quite a few of them. This scope was on a pre 64 M70 243 varmint rifle ever since it was new in 1954 (if memory serves) It had lots of truck cab bumps and bruises and went for a few horse rides. I took the scope off to put it on another rifle and I couldn't get the windage cross hair to move so I sent it to Korth and a few days later there was a brand new scope delivered to my door step. That old scope had seen years of use and abuse and owed nobody anything but yet Leupold replaced it with no questions asked! That sort of service does promote brand loyaly but if I had sent as many back as you claim to have then my loyalty would go somewhere else.

 

[cantgetright]

I drove away in my truck forgetting my rifle and Leupold VX1 was sitting on the tonneau cover. Didn't get stopped in time when I heard it sliding. Right away to the range, 2 shots touching at 100yds, just an inch low. Could have been worse if the ground wasn't so wet and soft.

 

[hawk-i]

Sent two In this year all ready.

Dropped cross hairs
Not straight cross hairs
Wondering 0s
Adjustments not tracking.
Plugs falling out.
Metal flakes on internal glass.
parallax issues.

All fixed in a very timely manner and at 0 cost to me they don’t keep a warranty fella on staff because he has nothing to do.

Are you buying those "less expensive" ones off E-Bay, you know, the ones that come from China?

Over the years i've had varying brands which required warranty work, including Swarovski.

 

[droid1963]

Slipped on some ice and down I went, cracked the stock of my Model 70 right at the grip.

 

[Isobar1999]

Hey , plenty of us have knocked the Scope about whilst climbing over , under around or ontop of something out in the Bush, it happens... but how many of you have "dropped" your rifle before and thought, Gosh it must be shooting a foot to the L or R for sure.......

only to have lined up a target an Poleaxed that target!?


i did, i was tryin to juggle the ruger 1 and kimber from the gun safe to the lounge room when i lost grip an fumbled my kimber, within moments i heard the big crash as it landed on the floor....... carpet this time.

i was ment to hunt it in the following morning, so thats why i ended up grabbing the 35 Whelen for a run (boy is that thing heavy)

anyway

this afternoon during our #5 covid lockdown state wide for -100 cases, i got to line up a target at 100m an fired.... an i fired again thinking it must be a fluke....

they landed touching, precisley 2 inches above the X...........


Talley Rings must be good eh!??

and the Burris fullfield ii has not let me down yet!

i wsa amazed.

Whats your story?

I hunt with a milsurp Swedish Mauser , I could drop that Phukker off a cliff and not have a worry in the world lolol