F T/R Competition Forgetting to adjust your parallax will...

[XTR]

hurt your score.

haven't been behind the trigger in over a week. Flew home late (very late with the Charlotte delays) Friday night. Did family stuff all yesterday. Got up thins AM grabbed my bag and rifle and headed to the range to do an 800/900/1000 match.

Started in the pits, rushed to get setup. I've never shot at 800/900 before so I've only got JBM. Noticed that I had left dope on the scope from 200 yds, dialed it back to 100 then to the estimated 800 dope. It was hot and I was expecting mirage, low wind, mirage dancing everywhere. This is my NF BR scope, so you adjust parallax with the obj., completely forgot it, I even dialed the mag back a little so I could see better. Never occurred to me to focus.. Gaahhh! Shooting at 800 with your parallax set at 200 <span style="text-decoration: underline">will</span> give you flyers that will make you lose your mind trying to figure out how the hell that pullet got over there!

It cost me a lot of points, I was the only F/TR shooting today, so I got grouped with the F/Os and placed 3rd, but I'd have needed 10 points to get 2nd. I don't thing that I'd have gotten the extra 10, but I did drop 13 points that match. I think I'd have gotten at least 1/2 of that back.

 

[supratt96]

Re: Forgetting to adjust your parallax will...

I'm a little confused. Wasn't your sight picture blurry? I have a NF BR scope too. If paralax even a little off, I all I see is blur.

 

[XTR]

Re: Forgetting to adjust your parallax will...

Yep, it was blurry, but I got behind the rifle expecting to have a mirage problem.<span style="color: #FF0000">Forgot this part. When I came up from the pits I scored before I shot. I was using the spotter that was set up when I got there. It was a low end Bushnell, when I got behind my scope the view looked the same as I had been seeing with the spotter.</span> It was already in the upper 80s when I started shooting, we ended the day today at close to 95. I just shot through it with the magnification turned back to about 25.

I usually shoot from 1000 and we don't have to deal with mirage much at that range because we are shooting over a shallow valley with a creek in the bottom at about 900. At 800 we're back at ground level again.

It's one of those things that you look back and think how did I do that.

 

[head2h2o]

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Well, look at it this way. You made the mistake and you will probably think about it almost every time you lay down at the line again. I doubt you it happens to you again. As soon as you see a blurry image, I bet the first thing you think about from now on is the parallax.

 

[lovain1932]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: head2h2o</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Well, look at it this way. You made the mistake and you will probably think about it almost every time you lay down at the line again. I doubt you it happens to you again. As soon as you see a blurry image, I bet the first thing you think about from now on is the parallax. </div></div> +1 I did that one time starting @ 200 then out to 600 never forgot it again

 

[PLeighton]

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Priceless lesson learned...
You will never forget it again!!!

After getting spun out on my elevation at a match a few years ago I now mark the zero rev on all my scopes without zero stops and always take my dope off after every COF.

Sucks learning lessons that way, but think of it as cheap training.
How many hundreds of rounds of practice would it take to engrain good habits like that?

Thanks for sharing.