Thread: Scope problems
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Old 05-30-2019, 01:42 PM
rick w. rick w. is offline
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I once had a Redfield hunting scope with the very limited movement of reticle, the rep had to tell me such though.......was not smart enough at the time.

Some folks will zero(center) a scope on a known apparatus before mounting on the rifle/mounts of the day. There is some precision in the drill tap and mounting systems. I run an adjustment knob to the max, then back it off to the reverse max counting some reference, clicks; marks. I then move half way back. I do such for both x and y knobs. One then should be able to set the scope in a known apparatus, v-blocks, whatever you got, and spin the scope, the reticle should be pretty steadily centered with a little run out perhaps. One would think if one adjustment is against its stops already, the other movement might be hindered, but not thought much about that.

I then put the touched(centered) scope onto the rifle of the day and its mounts, one can repeat the whirl check if so wanted on the bags. With the scope mounted, bore sight the scope thru the bore(bolt guns etc) to the target. Where is the scope reticle at this time to the target. If the poi visually thru the glass is way more than the bore sight, then one might take a looksee in the mounts. I have never grown to like shimming, but just my opinion. As said before, there is some precision in the drill/tap/mount business, sadly sometimes is lacking.

I once saw scope mounting procedure by T.J. Jackson, kinda a particlar gunsmith, his procedure was several pages long, pretty intense most of it.

A 6x24 in some models has no parallax adjustment fwiw.
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