At what Distance are you ZEROED at ?Are you using any sort of bubble level ?
The markings on the side focus are rarely if ever even close. As long as the target is clear and focused, don't worry about it. If you plan to use it for rangeing, then measure your distance and focus. Some people use white tape on the knob and mark it.
Ok so I am confused here I am having really odd spreads with this scope. Idk if I am doing something wrong or what. All of the shoots at the below targets were taken with my new .177 Benjamin Armada sporting a monster 4-16 x 50mm scope and I was using a bipod with no wind. It was a nice calm morning. This is my first time with a scope that has parallax adjustment so maybe I am wrong there. The big Brichwood Scoping target I used to zero my scope done to where I zero all my scopes 50'. Following the scope instructions I set my parallax to make the target clear and crisp which was just about the 15yards scribe mark on it. All was fine.Today I shot at 4 ranges, 25, 50, 80, and 150 feet. The 80 foot target I didn't include a photo of was a resetting squirrel target. Had no issues hitting it accurately with a parallax setting of little over 50yards and a half mil downThe 150 foot target is the the white target and I had parallax at roughly 150 yards mark to get a clear target picture. I couldn't get a consistent grouping and I wasn't using any mil hold over.The 50 foot target is the orange one with the wide spread. I was parallaxing at 25 yards. And kept hitting high even with 2 full mils down.And the 25 foot target is the orange one with the string of hits. I parallaxed at 15yard mark and was hitting good aiming true no use of mils.Is all of that normal or am I not using parallax adjustment correctly. Because the parallax yardage isn't adding up to the distances I was shooting at.
Quote from: Airgunsniper8698 on August 23, 2022, 01:20:51 PMOk so I am confused here I am having really odd spreads with this scope. Idk if I am doing something wrong or what. All of the shoots at the below targets were taken with my new .177 Benjamin Armada sporting a monster 4-16 x 50mm scope and I was using a bipod with no wind. It was a nice calm morning. This is my first time with a scope that has parallax adjustment so maybe I am wrong there. The big Brichwood Scoping target I used to zero my scope done to where I zero all my scopes 50'. Following the scope instructions I set my parallax to make the target clear and crisp which was just about the 15yards scribe mark on it. All was fine.Today I shot at 4 ranges, 25, 50, 80, and 150 feet. The 80 foot target I didn't include a photo of was a resetting squirrel target. Had no issues hitting it accurately with a parallax setting of little over 50yards and a half mil downThe 150 foot target is the the white target and I had parallax at roughly 150 yards mark to get a clear target picture. I couldn't get a consistent grouping and I wasn't using any mil hold over.The 50 foot target is the orange one with the wide spread. I was parallaxing at 25 yards. And kept hitting high even with 2 full mils down.And the 25 foot target is the orange one with the string of hits. I parallaxed at 15yard mark and was hitting good aiming true no use of mils.Is all of that normal or am I not using parallax adjustment correctly. Because the parallax yardage isn't adding up to the distances I was shooting at.Here is the procedure I use to set up my scopes for my particular eyes.............https://www.bcsportsmen.org/ft/A_Team_Parallax_adjustment_procedure.pdf
Quote from: nced on August 23, 2022, 05:59:02 PMQuote from: Airgunsniper8698 on August 23, 2022, 01:20:51 PMOk so I am confused here I am having really odd spreads with this scope. Idk if I am doing something wrong or what. All of the shoots at the below targets were taken with my new .177 Benjamin Armada sporting a monster 4-16 x 50mm scope and I was using a bipod with no wind. It was a nice calm morning. This is my first time with a scope that has parallax adjustment so maybe I am wrong there. The big Brichwood Scoping target I used to zero my scope done to where I zero all my scopes 50'. Following the scope instructions I set my parallax to make the target clear and crisp which was just about the 15yards scribe mark on it. All was fine.Today I shot at 4 ranges, 25, 50, 80, and 150 feet. The 80 foot target I didn't include a photo of was a resetting squirrel target. Had no issues hitting it accurately with a parallax setting of little over 50yards and a half mil downThe 150 foot target is the the white target and I had parallax at roughly 150 yards mark to get a clear target picture. I couldn't get a consistent grouping and I wasn't using any mil hold over.The 50 foot target is the orange one with the wide spread. I was parallaxing at 25 yards. And kept hitting high even with 2 full mils down.And the 25 foot target is the orange one with the string of hits. I parallaxed at 15yard mark and was hitting good aiming true no use of mils.Is all of that normal or am I not using parallax adjustment correctly. Because the parallax yardage isn't adding up to the distances I was shooting at.Here is the procedure I use to set up my scopes for my particular eyes.............https://www.bcsportsmen.org/ft/A_Team_Parallax_adjustment_procedure.pdfA diagram would really help this 'how to' out.
At each distance, after the target is clear and crisp, when you move your eye, up/down or right/left, does the reticle move on the target? If no, you don't have a parallax problem. If yes, you should contact the vendor and return the scope to have the warranty procedures. Just forget about the discrepancy between real distances versus what the focus wheel says..; don't ask me why, but this undesirable discrepancy is very usual.Parallax apart, for sure you are having something really wrong.For instance.. The mount is ok and properly attached?Are you abusing the scope adjustments when zeroing? Even for a PCP, it's not good when needing a lot of adjustment to each turret. Do you trust the pellets you're using? HN and JSB are good brands to try. The trigger is too hard?You should shoot through a cronograph to know the speed consistency.Keep tolding what you tried and we will try to help.
Quote from: mpbby on August 24, 2022, 01:21:37 AMAt each distance, after the target is clear and crisp, when you move your eye, up/down or right/left, does the reticle move on the target? If no, you don't have a parallax problem. If yes, you should contact the vendor and return the scope to have the warranty procedures. Just forget about the discrepancy between real distances versus what the focus wheel says..; don't ask me why, but this undesirable discrepancy is very usual.Parallax apart, for sure you are having something really wrong.For instance.. The mount is ok and properly attached?Are you abusing the scope adjustments when zeroing? Even for a PCP, it's not good when needing a lot of adjustment to each turret. Do you trust the pellets you're using? HN and JSB are good brands to try. The trigger is too hard?You should shoot through a cronograph to know the speed consistency.Keep tolding what you tried and we will try to help.No, there is no reticle movement once clearly on target. And I seen someone yesterday mentioned the discrepancy part and said to use tape and measure out set points and sight the scope at each point and mark on the tape so that I have a better reference there.So the scope is in it's mounts securely and the mounts attach to the top rail snuggly no wiggle jiggle. Amazingly I haven't made any elevation adjustments yet. I made I believe it was 6 clicks right and been good.I trust my pellets because took at a 80 feet and shot 3 targets with my top 3 pellets I shoot the most exact same grouping with barely a half inch difference on the ones that didn't go in the main group, so I think those where shots I pulled. I haven't made any adjustments to the 2 stage trigger since I got the rifle. I really like the factory setting on it. Nice short first stage and a steady even second stage. I don't have a chrono so I can't do that.Sadly I can't shoot for a while because the farmer has started harvest and he needs his dirt road right now. I am going to shoot 4 matching targets when he's done and see what I get. I'll shoot one at 50' where my scope is Zeroed in at, and then one at my 80' marker, and one at my 100' marker. Depending on those 3 I'll either come in to closer or do that 4th one a little bit farther and yall can see what's happening.
Forget about feet, do everything in yards or meters. That is part of the reason that you are messed up.Use a consistent unit of measure. Your scope is calibrated in yards! Use them. -Y