I have a new 3.5-15x56 NXS scope with zero stop (NP-R1 reticle), and I'm about 95% certain that it has problems. Before I call Nightforce Monday morning, I wanted to run my symptoms by you all as a sanity check:
1) When I try to set the reticle focus, I end up with the eyepiece cranked fully clockwise. It feels like I need another turn or two to get the retcicle crisply focused.
2) When I point the scope at a textured, off-white wall that is approximately 30 feet away, I can make out the wall texture at 3.5x power (but not perfectly crisply). When I increase the power above about 6x power, the texture rapidly goes out of focus and is completely blurred at 15x. Turning the parallax adjustment through its full range has no effect.
3) If I aim at a point on the same wall at 3.5x, then nod my head slightly up and down or side to side, the reticle always shifts in relation to the target point. I’ve tried adjusting the parallax through its full range, and no setting makes any difference.
NOTE: I have an inexpensive RWS 3-9x40 scope on my air rifle. None of the above problems happen under the same test conditions. The reticle is crisp and I can focus the scope on the wall texture at all powers, and the texture is crisp at all powers.
4) If I set the scope to 15x and point at a tree 74 yards away, I can get a crisp focus on the tree trunk with the parallax knob set at approximately midway. However, nodding my head shows lots of parallax. The parallax is minimal at the low-end stop (opposite end from infinity) but the image is no longer clear.
5) Similar for tree at 60 yards, but focus occurs about 1/4 way from the low-end stop.
6) For tree at 25 yards, cannot get focus at all using the parallax knob.
Is it me, or does that sound like a bad scope?
1) When I try to set the reticle focus, I end up with the eyepiece cranked fully clockwise. It feels like I need another turn or two to get the retcicle crisply focused.
2) When I point the scope at a textured, off-white wall that is approximately 30 feet away, I can make out the wall texture at 3.5x power (but not perfectly crisply). When I increase the power above about 6x power, the texture rapidly goes out of focus and is completely blurred at 15x. Turning the parallax adjustment through its full range has no effect.
3) If I aim at a point on the same wall at 3.5x, then nod my head slightly up and down or side to side, the reticle always shifts in relation to the target point. I’ve tried adjusting the parallax through its full range, and no setting makes any difference.
NOTE: I have an inexpensive RWS 3-9x40 scope on my air rifle. None of the above problems happen under the same test conditions. The reticle is crisp and I can focus the scope on the wall texture at all powers, and the texture is crisp at all powers.
4) If I set the scope to 15x and point at a tree 74 yards away, I can get a crisp focus on the tree trunk with the parallax knob set at approximately midway. However, nodding my head shows lots of parallax. The parallax is minimal at the low-end stop (opposite end from infinity) but the image is no longer clear.
5) Similar for tree at 60 yards, but focus occurs about 1/4 way from the low-end stop.
6) For tree at 25 yards, cannot get focus at all using the parallax knob.
Is it me, or does that sound like a bad scope?
