XOTIC 4-16x56 Mission Complete

   It can't hurt to try, but I'd guess that you'd need some pretty specialized  equipment to do that accurately enough to matter.

 The correct angle would be equal to the amount of drop the bullet falls while traveling the length of the targeted scope.  Rather miniscule at 100 yards even for a .458.

 

U.S.Optics XOTIC 4-16x56 Mission Complete

 

As many of you know, Chris sent me a subject scope for destruction (I'm good at that).  As with the Simmons Blazer, the objective was to try to recreate the "shoot the sniper" shot, through the scope.  I set up an identical shot to the one with the Blazer, 100yd, scope at "sniper hide" position.  I had to rezero the Lott, because for this shot, I used the heavy loaded 500gr dangerous game ammo.  Results were nearly identical.  The convex lenses, I believe, will nearly always deflect even the slightest off-center impact, virtually eliminating the possibility of a complete penetration through the ocular lens.  However, I am now searching for a 1960's vintage Russian sniper scope to test this again.  The scope that Gunny Hathcock, according to legend, shot through would have had flat glass lenses and fewer lenses, partially due to the fact that it was most likely a fixed 4x.  Once again, I do not believe, even though the bullet did not penetrate the ocular, that the opposing sniper would have survived... he at least would have been blind in one eye.  The U.S. Optics XOTIC scope traveled about 20feet through the air for this shot, further than the Blazer.  

Anybody got one I can shoot??