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Wilcox Raptar users - step on in and explain this weird thing to me

TheGerman

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  • Jan 25, 2010
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    Noticed something weird.


    Page 86: Alignment Process (aka zeroing the thing to your rifle)

    Steps say to get a target at 100 and simply align the visible laser to the center of your zero'd reticle. Since all of the lasers/rangefinder are slaved, this will zero it.

    But 2 things here....

    1) The instructions they gave you previous to this included a zero target that had you zeroing the laser with an offset.

    2) How the hell does this actually zero the rangefinder as the fucking thing has convergence at 100 but will be going off angle the further you go away from 100 because all you are doing is centering it there without any reference as to where it is at say, 640 yards.

    How does this make any sense over:
    - measuring where the laser is on the Wilcox unit in relation to the center of your optic
    - drawing a circle on a target using that measurement as the offset in relation to a paster on the same target
    - Line up your reticle on the paster and then adjust the laser until its in the drawn circle

    At that point if the laser is at 1.5mil, your reference is the 1.5mil hash when your turret is at its zero distance.

    How do you guys do it?
     
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    Noticed something weird.


    Page 86: Alignment Process (aka zeroing the thing to your rifle)

    Steps say to get a target at 100 and simply align the visible laser to the center of your zero'd reticle. Since all of the lasers/rangefinder are slaved, this will zero it.

    But 2 things here....

    1) The instructions they gave you previous to this included a zero target that had you zeroing the laser with an offset.

    2) How the hell does this actually zero the rangefinder as the fucking thing has convergence at 100 but will be going off angle the further you go away from 100 because all you are doing is centering it there without any reference as to where it is at say, 640 yards.

    How does this make any sense over:
    - measuring where the laser is on the Wilcox unit in relation to the center of your optic
    - drawing a circle on a target using that measurement as the offset in relation to a paster on the same target
    - Line up your reticle on the paster and then adjust the laser until its in the drawn circle

    At that point if the laser is at 1.5mil, your reference is the 1.5mil hash when your turret is at its zero distance.

    How do you guys do it?
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