While messing with tracking... I have the scope clamped to a board that has a boresight on it. This way neither can move in relation to eachother and tracking can easily be measured...
Right now I have the scope zero'd on mechanical center.
I used to think I had a lot more adjustment than I did when I was counting knob clicks. However, while looking through the boresighter I learned that on far up and far right, I don't move... so I based mechanical center not on the knobs but between the points that the reticle is actually capable of moving to.
I don't think this would really be a problem seeing as it leaves me with a little more than what they said for total adjustment range.
One thing I found out of curiosity is that on the bottom end of the elevation adjustment when I gently wiggle the turret side to side my reticle does a small arc.
It seems to have an issue tracking sometimes when going left... over 3 mils and I can see it being as much as 0.1 mil off... Every other direction seems to be fine.
Basically, should I have the scope checked out by someone?
[edit] Oh, and when I gently squeeze the turrets into the scope body using my thumb and index finger, I can actually move the crosshair about 1 mil, unless it's bottomed out already.
[edit 2]
I just set it up to do some tracking tests at around 100 yards... I clamped the scope into a gun vise on a tripod and aimed it at things such as stop signs, tree branches etc...
Tests showed that adjusting windage to the left showed 0.1mil error w/ 3 mils adjustment, 0.2mils @ 4mils, and 0.3mils at 5mils... each time when returning adjustment back to zero I came right back to where I was to start with.
Elevation test passed with satisfactory results.
Right now I have the scope zero'd on mechanical center.
I used to think I had a lot more adjustment than I did when I was counting knob clicks. However, while looking through the boresighter I learned that on far up and far right, I don't move... so I based mechanical center not on the knobs but between the points that the reticle is actually capable of moving to.
I don't think this would really be a problem seeing as it leaves me with a little more than what they said for total adjustment range.
One thing I found out of curiosity is that on the bottom end of the elevation adjustment when I gently wiggle the turret side to side my reticle does a small arc.
It seems to have an issue tracking sometimes when going left... over 3 mils and I can see it being as much as 0.1 mil off... Every other direction seems to be fine.
Basically, should I have the scope checked out by someone?
[edit] Oh, and when I gently squeeze the turrets into the scope body using my thumb and index finger, I can actually move the crosshair about 1 mil, unless it's bottomed out already.
[edit 2]
I just set it up to do some tracking tests at around 100 yards... I clamped the scope into a gun vise on a tripod and aimed it at things such as stop signs, tree branches etc...
Tests showed that adjusting windage to the left showed 0.1mil error w/ 3 mils adjustment, 0.2mils @ 4mils, and 0.3mils at 5mils... each time when returning adjustment back to zero I came right back to where I was to start with.
Elevation test passed with satisfactory results.
