Thread: I'm an idiot.

went out in the weekend to give my rifle a check over, I'd taken a tumble with it last time I was out and wanted to make sure everything was ok before I head out next weeked.

set myself up, took a couple of shots and sure enough it was out a little, about 5cm left of the bull at 250m.

so I hit my calculator, worked out it was about three clicks on the windage. makes sense, so I clicked it three to the left to bring the crosshairs into line, took another set of shots.
these were also out to the left.
obviously a screw had come loose, so I checked the torque on them all. no problems.

so I gave it another couple of clicks to the left, just in case my math was wrong, then another three shots.

these were well out, worse than before.

cue me scratching my head wondering if the barrel was getting hot, maybe the supressor...

then I remembered that the dial moves the point of impact, not the crosshair in the indicated direction. I reckon I sat there for a good five minutes just in awe of my own stupidity, I've been sighting in rifles more than a decade now, none of this is new to me. just a complete goddamn brainfart.

please share some dumbass moments so I feel a little less special. I only 31, I can't be going senile this early..