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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
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How much eye relief is enough?
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<blockquote data-quote="Coldzero" data-source="post: 292023" data-attributes="member: 16601"><p>Sight picture is also something to consider in this. You just want to get to the point where you have no black around the edges of your sight picture. You'll get a perfect circle of picture with no black edges and once you get that...stop. </p><p> </p><p>Alot of people keep putting their eye closer once they have already gained the sight picture, one of my friends did and he ended up with an "eyebrow". Once you have that sight picture you can measure it. Most scopes generally offer about three inches of eye relief.</p><p> </p><p>So it can be trial and error on finding scopes that have enough eye relief when you use rifles with more recoil. I have had a mate who bought a rubber eye piece just in case and I had another friend put a muzzle brake on because he didn't want to spend more money on another scope. </p><p> </p><p>I believe alot of eye relief problems come down to poor sight picture with people creeping on the scope till they are an inch away. It can also be funny shooting positions ie going from benchrest to field positions and eye relief changing with a different stock weld.</p><p> </p><p>Cheers,</p><p> </p><p>CZ</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Coldzero, post: 292023, member: 16601"] Sight picture is also something to consider in this. You just want to get to the point where you have no black around the edges of your sight picture. You'll get a perfect circle of picture with no black edges and once you get that...stop. Alot of people keep putting their eye closer once they have already gained the sight picture, one of my friends did and he ended up with an "eyebrow". Once you have that sight picture you can measure it. Most scopes generally offer about three inches of eye relief. So it can be trial and error on finding scopes that have enough eye relief when you use rifles with more recoil. I have had a mate who bought a rubber eye piece just in case and I had another friend put a muzzle brake on because he didn't want to spend more money on another scope. I believe alot of eye relief problems come down to poor sight picture with people creeping on the scope till they are an inch away. It can also be funny shooting positions ie going from benchrest to field positions and eye relief changing with a different stock weld. Cheers, CZ [/QUOTE]
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