Varminterror
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I've chased my fair share of wrong rabbits.
As have I - which SHOULD be one of the points of having forums like this; so others don’t have to learn the hard way on their own by chasing the same wrong rabbits which have already left others of us hungry, so they can save time and energy by learning from our collective experiences.
Barrels heating up don’t throw shots 3-4” at 100yrds in random directions. Pod hop doesn’t cause random direction flyers. Parallax error doesn’t elicit 3-4” flyers...
Troubleshooting is a pretty straightforward process. We look in the most likely places first, and triage our way down the tree until we find resolution. SPJ did a nice job laying out various sources of error, with associated qualifying and disqualifying attributes, and likelinesses.
Busted optic, poor load/rifle match, loose action screw or optic mount/rings, and shooter skill are the only 3 things which make sense until they can be eliminated as sources of error - so chase those rabbits. If none of the above solve this, then we’re really talking about some fluke which doesn’t actually make sense, and then we all get to learn something new here together.