You don't know what your talking about. To determine if you have parallax your move your eye up and down, left and right in the ocular, and if you have parallax the reticle will move. Move the parallax adjustment until it stops. If you want to set the ocular for your eye the best way is to look through the scope at a clear sky until the reticle is sharp and clear. And you will have better results.
And what, good sir, do you think reticle moving due to a failed parallax adjusting knob does down range? Your answer would be this here. Thanks for coming out. You are very old school in your approach and it leaves some open doors for failure at range. The modern target/tactical scope is designed to operate at specific ranges instead of guesswork. That means, if I dial to 500 yard dope, and dial my parallax to 500, my picture, should be clear, my reticle should be crisp, and parallax error should not be present at that range specified on the dial, and the elevation and windage should be as I input the dope. This scope fails that test for parallax.
+1 - I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but I do believe your testing method for parallax is a bit off. When people talk about the parallax problems in Sig scopes, they’re referring to the #’s being about 7 yards off the actual #. If you ignore the #’s and simply dial until the image is in focus, you will have no parallax problems. I believe you know this, but your testing method is flawed.
@aaronm3531 I'm open to some suggestions but let's go through it here. So I set my scope parallax to 100. Known yardage. I then adjust my diopter until the target and the crosshairs are in sharp relief. How exactly then do I dial from 100 to 200 to 500 to infinite and have any reliable guarantee of parallax being precise in a long range target scope? See the vortex pst viper I have, you dial parallax to 100 yards, and shoot 100 yards from any position and the group marks on top of the others through the same hole. Move out to 200, set the parallax to 200, same story. Out at 700, set parallax to 700, same story. 1000 is just "infinite" with that scope and I only am good for 1000 prone so I'm not sure if I could reliably test for parallax, but my gun shoots about 4 inch groups at 700 so the tests are reliable. So suggestion time. What about the testing method needs improvement and how do I fix it or make it compare to a product that works as advertised?
That’s really disappointing as it is a decent scope for the money other than that, and that parallax adjustment is extremely important
You don't know what your talking about. To determine if you have parallax your move your eye up and down, left and right in the ocular, and if you have parallax the reticle will move. Move the parallax adjustment until it stops. If you want to set the ocular for your eye the best way is to look through the scope at a clear sky until the reticle is sharp and clear. And you will have better results.
And what, good sir, do you think reticle moving due to a failed parallax adjusting knob does down range? Your answer would be this here. Thanks for coming out. You are very old school in your approach and it leaves some open doors for failure at range.
The modern target/tactical scope is designed to operate at specific ranges instead of guesswork. That means, if I dial to 500 yard dope, and dial my parallax to 500, my picture, should be clear, my reticle should be crisp, and parallax error should not be present at that range specified on the dial, and the elevation and windage should be as I input the dope.
This scope fails that test for parallax.
+1 - I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but I do believe your testing method for parallax is a bit off. When people talk about the parallax problems in Sig scopes, they’re referring to the #’s being about 7 yards off the actual #. If you ignore the #’s and simply dial until the image is in focus, you will have no parallax problems. I believe you know this, but your testing method is flawed.
@aaronm3531 I'm open to some suggestions but let's go through it here.
So I set my scope parallax to 100. Known yardage. I then adjust my diopter until the target and the crosshairs are in sharp relief.
How exactly then do I dial from 100 to 200 to 500 to infinite and have any reliable guarantee of parallax being precise in a long range target scope?
See the vortex pst viper I have, you dial parallax to 100 yards, and shoot 100 yards from any position and the group marks on top of the others through the same hole.
Move out to 200, set the parallax to 200, same story.
Out at 700, set parallax to 700, same story.
1000 is just "infinite" with that scope and I only am good for 1000 prone so I'm not sure if I could reliably test for parallax, but my gun shoots about 4 inch groups at 700 so the tests are reliable.
So suggestion time. What about the testing method needs improvement and how do I fix it or make it compare to a product that works as advertised?