shrewd
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so a few months ago I decided, after having my carbine all squared away, that i should totally try out variable scopes and swap out the aimpoint, and picked up one of the new SWFA 1-4s that came out around black friday.
i mounted it and took it to the range and made sure i was around 2 inches low at 25 yards at my indoor, but havent had a chance to properly zero it at range. still, i'm digging it. An unexpected plus, since i focus the diopter to my right eye, its helped tons with my natural cross dominance, and i've startled my dog dozens of times running around the house dry firing with it.
i've noticed a couple things though. First, and it's probably my error in mounting the scope, but when i zoom up to 4x, i have to place my face closer to the eyepeice. i figure it's not a big deal as if i'm at 4x i'm probably proned out anyway and my face will naturally be a little closer anyway. last night, while dry firing in the house (that poor thermostat and fridge magnet have so many imaginary rounds through them...) i noticed that when i zoomed in to 4x, the crosshairs would get blurry on what i thought was the correct diopter focus. After playing around with it a good bit i may have found a better spot, but it feels a little strange on 1x now. More fiddling, target blurry at 4x but all good at 1x.
Now, the target was just a magnet on my fridge, no more than 15 yards away....is this to be expected? Will it be all clear at 100 yards?
It makes me question if i mounted it/focused it right from the beginning. Do you let your eyes focus on the crosshairs, or hard focus on the target like a red dot? The instructions i was given for setting the diopter was to look at a while wall, bring up the rifle, and adjust until the crosshairs appear crisp naturally, which is what i did the first time.
Any pointers/thoughts/concerns/you dude you're totally stupid you're supposed to do it this way comments?
i mounted it and took it to the range and made sure i was around 2 inches low at 25 yards at my indoor, but havent had a chance to properly zero it at range. still, i'm digging it. An unexpected plus, since i focus the diopter to my right eye, its helped tons with my natural cross dominance, and i've startled my dog dozens of times running around the house dry firing with it.
i've noticed a couple things though. First, and it's probably my error in mounting the scope, but when i zoom up to 4x, i have to place my face closer to the eyepeice. i figure it's not a big deal as if i'm at 4x i'm probably proned out anyway and my face will naturally be a little closer anyway. last night, while dry firing in the house (that poor thermostat and fridge magnet have so many imaginary rounds through them...) i noticed that when i zoomed in to 4x, the crosshairs would get blurry on what i thought was the correct diopter focus. After playing around with it a good bit i may have found a better spot, but it feels a little strange on 1x now. More fiddling, target blurry at 4x but all good at 1x.
Now, the target was just a magnet on my fridge, no more than 15 yards away....is this to be expected? Will it be all clear at 100 yards?
It makes me question if i mounted it/focused it right from the beginning. Do you let your eyes focus on the crosshairs, or hard focus on the target like a red dot? The instructions i was given for setting the diopter was to look at a while wall, bring up the rifle, and adjust until the crosshairs appear crisp naturally, which is what i did the first time.
Any pointers/thoughts/concerns/you dude you're totally stupid you're supposed to do it this way comments?