CS78 said:
NRH ag 10 said:
Roskilde scope eval
Some highlights:
"Issues started immediately. Boresighted. Fired one round, adjusted, and next round landed in the dot. However, the next round with no adjustment shifted left 1.25 MOA. I adjusted right 1 MOA and moved to the right dot. 2 rounds- it didn't move. Adjusted right 1 MOA again- it didn't move."
"Drop evaluation:
18" drops were fine. Left side 36" shifted left about 4 MOA. Right side 36" shifted off paper."
"Conclusion:
Scope failed totally with drops. Even the last one where it held for the 18 and 36" single drops wouldn't last. At 18in-lbs on the ring caps, the scope looks like it has already slipped a tiny amount. Adjustments were not consistent or correct when zeroing."
Im always torn on these rokslide drop evals. Is it fair to compare scopes that weigh twice as much and are built much more robust to scopes like this one? Many of the scopes that pass with flying colors are prohibitively heavy. Unless you actually need a scope you can drop off a mountain.
I view it as a test of scopes that work and ones that don't. Note the swaro didn't even adjust correctly during zeroing.
I have a 20oz scope that passes the evals easily. I live in Colorado, do not own an ATV, SxS, or horses, so I am carrying the rifle everywhere. I am not trying to sound like a badass because I am not one, and I mostly day hunt from a truck based camp, but have done a 16 mile day on foot that ended with packing out and antelope 5 miles to the truck in the dark, and have done multiple 10 mile days in the mountains after elk or mule deer. A 19oz vs whatever the swaro weighs isn't going to be a real problem, and the weight savings are all for naught if the thing won't hold zero.
I have personally experienced a hunt ruined due to an unreliable scope. Woke up at 3am, drove for several hours through a snowstorm to my hunting spot, sat on a ridge in a mix of sleet and snow all day, had a shot at a mule deer with 10 minutes of legal light left, and straight up MISSED from prone at 200. Not a fun drive back home. Scope was off by 9" at 100 yds. Bushnell LRTSi that was a replacement for an LRHS with a seized elevation turret.
EDIT: I forgot this story. After I replaced that scope with a SWFA 3-9, I was on a 3rd season mule deer hunt. In the morning I slipped down a muddy creek embankment. Cartoon level feet out from under me, slammed down on my tailbone with the butt of my rifle whacking the ground. Killed a buck that evening somewhere between 300 and 400 yds, don't remember the shot distance. No loss of zero.
My main hunting buddy was packing for a 4th season buck tag we both had in 2024, and his rifle was leaned against the wall, muzzle up. It tipped over scope down onto the floor. It was off by either 6" or 9" at 100. he rezeroed and killed a buck at 600 on day 3 of that hunt. I don't remember the exact model, but it's a lower end Sig BDX scope.
Another set of friends and I would needle each other back and forth about SWFA vs Leupold. I'd ask my buddy shooting the Leupold if his scope was still zeroed after driving down the washboard dirt road to get from the pavement to the shooting range we go to. This year, he shot a cow elk 9 times in the stomach with a 7mm rem mag. Straight up had to go back to the truck to get more rounds. Obviously there's another issue in that he couldn't see his hits and adjust, but his scope had lost zero from riding in the back seat of a truck. The other friend has a SWFA 3-15 and killed his elk without incident after experiencing the exact same conditions. The Leupold and 7mm are getting swapped out.
The OP mentioned western hunting use, that's the experience of me and some of my friends on pretty tame western hunts.
