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<blockquote data-quote="Bravo 4" data-source="post: 1094404" data-attributes="member: 8873"><p>Most guys don't check their scope adjustments. It can play into the whole "junk in-junk out" response to truing your ballistic apps. If you don't know to input the correction to your turret adjustments then you will end up tweaking your BC or velocity numbers to compensate for the correction and not even realize where the correction needed to be applied in the first place. </p><p>Is it usually enough to throw you off if you make it up elsewhere? No, especially if you aren't going to be shooting some crazy freaking distances and expecting your app to get you a true solution for first round hits. I have checked some rather expensive scopes and found their adjustments to be off by as much as 10%! That is huge and this optics company when contacted said "What's the problem with that?" </p><p>You can also find out if your adjustments stay true through the whole range of adjustments. I check from top to bottom, I've heard that the adjustments can go astray towards their outer most limits. I haven't found one that does that, but I will check because I have had a setup that only had 4 moa left with a 100 yard zero. It was at the outer limit of its adjustment range and I needed almost all the rest to shoot past a mile if so wanted.</p><p>You can also check for any reticle cant, which some scope manufacturers seem to have crappy acceptable tolerances for. One of them being the same company stated above.</p><p></p><p>Now then, with all of that said I think that as long as everything is repeatable then it is functional. You can compensate for pretty much anything. It's a system and if you change something (like your rangefinder, how many guys check their rangefinders?) then you need to verify again. </p><p>The process is time consuming because I will do it many-many times to verify any findings.</p><p></p><p>As stated above, I will make a target like Mr. Litz but taller and with .25 moa or .1 mil marks and strap the scoped rifle (or maybe just the scope) to a gun cradle and bench so that it will not move when I turn the turrets and go from there. The set up process is the time consuming part, getting everything lined up and strapped down just right. Sometimes I get my youngin to aid me with this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bravo 4, post: 1094404, member: 8873"] Most guys don't check their scope adjustments. It can play into the whole "junk in-junk out" response to truing your ballistic apps. If you don't know to input the correction to your turret adjustments then you will end up tweaking your BC or velocity numbers to compensate for the correction and not even realize where the correction needed to be applied in the first place. Is it usually enough to throw you off if you make it up elsewhere? No, especially if you aren't going to be shooting some crazy freaking distances and expecting your app to get you a true solution for first round hits. I have checked some rather expensive scopes and found their adjustments to be off by as much as 10%! That is huge and this optics company when contacted said "What's the problem with that?" You can also find out if your adjustments stay true through the whole range of adjustments. I check from top to bottom, I've heard that the adjustments can go astray towards their outer most limits. I haven't found one that does that, but I will check because I have had a setup that only had 4 moa left with a 100 yard zero. It was at the outer limit of its adjustment range and I needed almost all the rest to shoot past a mile if so wanted. You can also check for any reticle cant, which some scope manufacturers seem to have crappy acceptable tolerances for. One of them being the same company stated above. Now then, with all of that said I think that as long as everything is repeatable then it is functional. You can compensate for pretty much anything. It's a system and if you change something (like your rangefinder, how many guys check their rangefinders?) then you need to verify again. The process is time consuming because I will do it many-many times to verify any findings. As stated above, I will make a target like Mr. Litz but taller and with .25 moa or .1 mil marks and strap the scoped rifle (or maybe just the scope) to a gun cradle and bench so that it will not move when I turn the turrets and go from there. The set up process is the time consuming part, getting everything lined up and strapped down just right. Sometimes I get my youngin to aid me with this. [/QUOTE]
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