Ever feel like Homer Simpson?

[taylorce1]

I had a HS "DOH!" moment tonight for sure. I went to my gunsmith and picked up two rifles I had being worked on. Brought them home and started pulling scopes and rifles out of the safe. Should have really cleand my surroundings a little better on my bench and maybe I could have avoided it.

Anyway to make a long story short I accidentally bumped the box with my new 3.5-10X40 VX3 and sent it tumbling to the concrete floor. Box was open and when it hit the floor the scope came out and hit the concrete and rolled about two feet away. Scope appears to be for the most part unharmed, so I mounted it anyway. Here's to hoping it'll still shoot. I'm thinking of taking the rifle to OK to hunt in November, and don't want to send a scope back.

Well at least the other three scopes went on without a hitch, I could use any of those others to hunt with as well.

 

[DrMike]

Yup! We've all had those moments. Test it at the range to ensure that it tracks well, and you should be good to go.

 

[CMBTshooter]

It will be fine I'm sure. If not, leupold will probably replace it.

 

[Oldtrader3]

I have had similar moments, I guess we all do? The VX-3's are pretty tough scopes, hopefully it should be okay take it to the range and wring out the zero settings and shoot a few groups. That should tell you if it is okay. Good luck, I hope it is okay!

 

[SJB358]

Yeah, mine have been dropped quite a lot and they seem to hold up fine. I will give Leupold this, their optics are pretty tough.

 

[FOTIS]

I agree Scott!

 

[HomerOz]

G'Day Fella's,

Taylorce1, yes CONSTANTLY but then I do do a lot of work!

Doh!
Homer

 

[pre6422hornet]

Ummm yes.. Back in 2003 while working on the rifle, I set my M70 Supergrade .270 leaning on my bench. I accidently brushed it when I got up and WHAMMO it fell onto the concrete floor, splitting the gorgeous stock and breaking the black forend tip in half. I about cried myself to sleep that night. It now wears a Winny plastic stock..... I really need to find a proper hunk of walnut to wrap around that awesome action.

 

[DrMike]

Ummm yes.. Back in 2003 while working on the rifle, I set my M70 Supergrade .270 leaning on my bench. I accidently brushed it when I got up and WHAMMO it fell onto the concrete floor, splitting the gorgeous stock and breaking the black forend tip in half. I about cried myself to sleep that night. It now wears a Winny plastic stock..... I really need to find a proper hunk of walnut to wrap around that awesome action.

Heck, yeah, I almost cried reading this, Pat. :shock:

 

[Oldtrader3]

I broke a stock that was put in one of those cheap wall racks while I was cleaning the rifle. The single screw rack holder in the back half of the wall rack spun 90 degrees and dropped the rifle. The rifle landed on the top corner of the butt and broke a custom French walnut stock at the hand!

 

[Polaris]

Last winter on a wolf hunt my rifle took a pretty good whack on the scope from a tree along the trail while I snowmobiled to my area at 40 mph. Stopped and checked the zero in the field at a large rock (I was still a few miles from my hunting area). It did move the zero a couple inches, that, and a dent in the turret cover were the only ill effects. Quality scopes are tough, even some of the cheap ones are surprisingly resilient these days.

 

[Wincheringen]

Like the other day when I set a black stock plate on top of my black tool box. I looked for that sucker for 45 minutes.

 

[DrMike]

Like the other day when I set a black stock plate on top of my black tool box. I looked for that sucker for 45 minutes.

There seems to be more of that sort of stuff going on in my world as I grow older. :shock: