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    Rifle Scopes For the experts - scope tracking issue or something else?

    You simply cannot establish a POI with so few rounds with the accuracy people expect. I know people try to do it all the time, but 3 shot groups just don't cut it. You may get lucky, but you may just as well be further off than you would expect. Questioning your scope's tracking because the...
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    Rifle Scopes FFP scope cost

    All that means is that the reticle with field lens has to be positioned exactly in the right axial location in order to remain in focus throughout the magnification range, but the same is true for a SFP scope, which also has a first focal plane that has to remain in focus throughout the...
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    Rifle Scopes FFP scope cost

    Can you prove that invisible pink unicorns do not exist, or is that just a belief of yours? All I can tell you is that there is no difference in the optical layout of FFP vs. FFP as a matter of principle that has to do with the number of elements. The numbers vary depending on the individual...
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    Rifle Scopes FFP scope cost

    Urban scope legend.
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    Rifle Scopes optical spec on scopes?

    As for aberrations, there's about half a dozen different ones that would be interesting to an expert. You keep asking for "aberration" (singular) and seem to think that it is somehow related to diffraction (which usually doesn't play any significant role in a scope to start with). This is where...
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    Rifle Scopes Field of view is offset at extreme ends of elevation adjustment... Normal?

    No it is not, for the reason I explained in the linked post. The erector "looks" at an image that is upside down (the image created by the objective system in the first focal plane), that's why it has to move counter to what intuition tells you. I understand your puzzlement, because I used to...
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    Rifle Scopes optical spec on scopes?

    You are making a few simplified assumptions that about camera lenses (which only consist of an objective) that do not apply to scopes (which consist of an objective, an erector system with a certain (possibly variable) magnification and an ocular). A few points in no particular order: FoV...
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    Rifle Scopes Field of view is offset at extreme ends of elevation adjustment... Normal?

    No, the text is correct, see explanation here: http://www.snipershide.com/shooting/snipers-hide-rifle-scopes/188037-reticle-travel-within-scope.html#post2470771
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    Rifle Scopes S&B Ultra Short

    Those are ERA-TAC rings by Recknagel. They are available as seperate rings or one-piece mount and with normal bolt/nut attachment or QD levers. Pretty much the default choice for heavy duty picatinny mounts in Germany/Europe. ERA-TAC one-piece mounts
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    Rifle Scopes Premier

    http://www.snipershide.com/shooting/snipers-hide-rifle-scopes/180815-questions-about-updated-2012-2013-premier-1-8x4-other-1-8-options.html#post2399691
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    Rifle Scopes Who makes highend high powered glass in MOA

    Premier 5-25x56 ist available with MOA reticle and knobs.
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    Rifle Scopes Question on elev spring tension

    Very well put. This is one of those cases where physics trumps "common sense". Springs do not "tire" from being subjected to a constant force like a muscle would, they tire from compression/expansion cycles. So by "relieving" the erector spring after shooting, you're actually doing it a...
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    Rifle Scopes questions about updated 2012-2013 PREMIER 1-8X4 and other 1-8 options.

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    Rifle Scopes Reticle Travel within the Scope

    Yes. You are "scanning" the upside down image in the first focal plane with the erector so to speak. Move the erector up (physically) to point the reticle at a lower point on (upside down) target. this will cause you to raise the reticle up to your target (together with the gun this time) and...
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    Rifle Scopes Comparing field of view

    That's exactly right. Also, you can visualize the tunneling this way. If you calculate from high towards low power and generate your graph, you will reach the maximum FoV at some point before minimum magnification is reached. From that point on, the graph will just be a horizontal line until...
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    Rifle Scopes Comparing field of view

    This is what a diagram like that looks like with (almost) real data. I took three scopes with overlapping magnification ranges as an example (scopes without tunneling to keep it easy for starters). You can see that if you just connect min. and max. FOV with a straight line, things will look very...
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    Rifle Scopes Comparing field of view

    There's several things that don't add up with those graphs. First of all some of the scopes (at least ATACR, NXS F1, PMII) have tunneling, so the FOV stays constant from low power for a while, then declines proportionally as with the others. There is a formula how to calculate this, but it's not...
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    Rifle Scopes Mrad IS Meteric

    Hint: "Milli-" is a decimal prefix.
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    Rifle Scopes Usmc scope

    You should have included a picture of your sister with that statement, would have helped others to make up their mind.
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    Rifle Scopes Usmc scope

    After parting ways wit S&B and developing their own scopes, Premier submitted the 3-15x50 to the USMC for testing as required by the "engineering change protocol" (what that means is that a supplier that makes changes to a contract item has to get those changes approved, which is basically a...
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