Here's an update.
I have one of the 4-16 that had been riding on top of a 6-BR for a few months.
It's never failed to do exactly what it's supposed to do.
I decided since my wife and a couple of friends have been shooting their 22s at 400yd plates, that I'd have to jump into the game.
Pulled the optic off of the BR and torqued it down on the DIP rail on my Annie.
I was carrying it out to the garage and holding my coffee cup in one hand and had grasped the rifle by the base plate of the bipod with the other.
The rifle has the little hand stop rail on the bottom. I've been using one of the inserts that is a bipod stud.
This one doesn't have a set screw like the one on my B&C stock.
Does anyone see where this is going?
Yep, you guessed it. The stud slid out of the rail because I had only finger tightened the bipod.
My hand was chest high as it started the slip. Of course I tried to raise my arm to stop it. It didn't work.
The rifle landed on the concrete, right on the parallax knob...
Fuck, fuck, fuck!!!
A 4+ foot drop on concrete.
The barrel and the stock took a hit also.
Anyway, I pulled it off and attached it to my scope checker.
By all accounts, other than a severely scratched battery cap, it didn't suffer any damage.
Took it to the range the next day and it's perfectly fine.
Crazy shit.