Do you tap your scope to settle in the crosshairs?
04-25-2008, 06:36 PM
#21
Nontypical Buck
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RE: Do you tap your scope to settle in the crosshairs?
ORIGINAL: James B
I agree with RR I have always done it when I make adjustments of more than 3-4 clicks. It doesn't matter what brand of scope I am using. It's a habit I got into many years ago when variable scopes first hit the market. The first variables left a lot to be desired. POI varied a lot with power changes.
I agree with RR I have always done it when I make adjustments of more than 3-4 clicks. It doesn't matter what brand of scope I am using. It's a habit I got into many years ago when variable scopes first hit the market. The first variables left a lot to be desired. POI varied a lot with power changes.
I have always done the same thing. More of a habit I guess.
04-25-2008, 07:55 PM
#22
Nontypical Buck
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RE: Do you tap your scope to settle in the crosshairs?
Depends on the scope, my Nikon's and Leupold's I don't feel the need to, go two clicks past and backup. For the Bushnells I do even though I go past and backup.
04-26-2008, 08:03 AM
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RE: Do you tap your scope to settle in the crosshairs?
Never done it and never had a problem with point of impact shifting, and I've had my share of cheap 40 dollars scopes from simmons, bushnell, tasco, barska and BSA. I have read about it, and maybe it was an issue back in the 60's and 70's but I have never had a scope that needed it since the early 80's.
If my scope needs be beat on to work correctly I'm going to return it and get a different one.
Now I have heard with the side focus parallax scopes you need to turn it one way, then back. Which is why I like the objective adjustable scopes better.
Paul
If my scope needs be beat on to work correctly I'm going to return it and get a different one.
Now I have heard with the side focus parallax scopes you need to turn it one way, then back. Which is why I like the objective adjustable scopes better.
Paul
04-27-2008, 07:54 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Do you tap your scope to settle in the crosshairs?
I know it probally does not make any difference,But it is an old habit I got into 30 or 40 years ago with the old BS scopes .Everybody else did it so what the hey .Old habits.......LOL .Still catch my self afteran adjustment tapping the dial with the dime.
