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Brian... You're a recreational or competitive civilian shooter and God bless you for that. You're probably a much better shot than I. I'm sure you have perfectly acceptable results with a much less expensive rig. As do most others. I was simply justifying the cost of a good Tactical Rig.
Of course your scope adjusts and returns just fine and dandy. If they didn't adjust they would be useless. Inexpensive scopes just don't adjust consistently. I'm talking about using, say, a Mildot reticle to range a target, adjusting your scope using only whatever MOA clicks it employs, taking one shot and having it be on target. Then using the same number of clicks to return your scope to its original zero and having it still be on-target at the original range it was zero'd at. Most inexpensive scopes are not precise enough to do that accurately. If you have a physical "Stop" at the original range it will come back fine... Maybe. But if you don't, it won't. a Sniper has to KNOW his equipment will function precisely and consistently EVERY TIME.
Even though Snipers try as hard as they can to not mis-treat their equipment, sometimes circumstances don't allow for that. It's those times that the equipment needs to be as rock-solid as possible along with being precision. There's just a price tag that comes with that kind of assurance.
No disrespect to the vast majority of shooters. I know a lot of you can shoot "Bug-holes" at 300yds. "all day long" with your $500 Savage and $250 scope...(sarcasm). Just passing along what I know... From experience.
Of course your scope adjusts and returns just fine and dandy. If they didn't adjust they would be useless. Inexpensive scopes just don't adjust consistently. I'm talking about using, say, a Mildot reticle to range a target, adjusting your scope using only whatever MOA clicks it employs, taking one shot and having it be on target. Then using the same number of clicks to return your scope to its original zero and having it still be on-target at the original range it was zero'd at. Most inexpensive scopes are not precise enough to do that accurately. If you have a physical "Stop" at the original range it will come back fine... Maybe. But if you don't, it won't. a Sniper has to KNOW his equipment will function precisely and consistently EVERY TIME.
Even though Snipers try as hard as they can to not mis-treat their equipment, sometimes circumstances don't allow for that. It's those times that the equipment needs to be as rock-solid as possible along with being precision. There's just a price tag that comes with that kind of assurance.
No disrespect to the vast majority of shooters. I know a lot of you can shoot "Bug-holes" at 300yds. "all day long" with your $500 Savage and $250 scope...(sarcasm). Just passing along what I know... From experience.