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HELP…. Parallex and Target Clarity?

Parallax Adjust

After many years of doing it the conventional way (ocular first against blank background then parallax against the target) I finally found a quicker and more successful procedure. The best explanation I've seen is from a post on this forum but I've lost track of who posted it so with my apologies to him:
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"The easiest way to adjust for both zero parallax error and sharp target/reticle focus (making no assumptions about the scope's adjustments whatsoever) is as follows:

1. Adjust objective (side focus or AO) for zero parallax error, i.e. no apparent reticle movement on target while moving your eye around behind the eyepiece. (Disregard target image sharpness or focus.) Now the objective is focused on the reticle.

2. Adjust ocular (eyepiece) for sharpest target image focus (and, coincidentally, reticle focus - since they are now in the same plane). This is much easier than focusing on the reticle alone with a bright blank background, but you should still glance at the image for short periods, and trust your eye's first impression, which will also avoid eye fatigue.

Usually, a second iteration of the above two steps pays dividends in fine adjustment, since detecting parallax error (reticle movement on target) is easier once the image is more sharply focused."
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Try it, you will be surprised how well and easily this works to get your scope correctly focused especially if you are using fine cross hairs or fine cross hairs with dot.
I just did this the other day (parallax first, ocular focus adjustment second) for the same reason as the OP and I can confirm it worked.

David
 
Thanks for the help. I hope to try some of these recommendations out soon. The manufacturer suggested method just doesn’t work for me. I do wear bi-focal contact lenses and do suspect this complicates the process. Glad to hear others struggle with the same issue. At least the struggle is real!
 
Thanks for the help. I hope to try some of these recommendations out soon. The manufacturer suggested method just doesn’t work for me. I do wear bi-focal contact lenses and do suspect this complicates the process. Glad to hear others struggle with the same issue. At least the struggle is real!
if you have an old set of single vision glasses try them, that's what I use to shoot with, bifocals for me don't work, but I found a old set of single vision glasses that were new I forgot about and tried them and they worked great. I need to get a pair of shooting glasses custom made but it's hard to get the Opt Doc to get on the same page sometimes
 
I'm always willing to be educated so please explain why. I also have astigmatism and have had for the last 71+ years but it has never bothered me when using peep sights or scopes.

Edit - my 78 years is the reason I'm willing to be educated or re-educated since I may have forgotten much of what I have previously learned. Although I don't remember being absent minded.
I advise my customers that want to put a red dot on a AR platform to also install a flip up peep sight at the rear of the red dot. If you have any astigmatism and the dot looks like a dot with a tail, flip up the peep sight and it will make that red dot sharp and crystal clear.
 
So... I shoot A LOT of iron sight (peep) AND scope...

If you have astigmatism buy and use proper shooting glasses. If offhand, where you are looking across the bridge of your nose, you are not looking through your prescription. If prone, you are probably still looking through at least the upper 1/4 of your lens and that is not where your prescription is.

For prone and offhand I have several sets with various bumps (magnifications) but all have my astigmatism correction.

If I happen to go to the range to sight something in quick and don't feel like digging out a set of shooting glasses, I have the same problem the OP described.

Also, dry eyes will do the same thing...

Getting old isn't for the timid.

;)
 
So... I shoot A LOT of iron sight (peep) AND scope...

If you have astigmatism buy and use proper shooting glasses. If offhand, where you are looking across the bridge of your nose, you are not looking through your prescription. If prone, you are probably still looking through at least the upper 1/4 of your lens and that is not where your prescription is.

For prone and offhand I have several sets with various bumps (magnifications) but all have my astigmatism correction.

If I happen to go to the range to sight something in quick and don't feel like digging out a set of shooting glasses, I have the same problem the OP described.

Also, dry eyes will do the same thing...

Getting old isn't for the timid.

;)
Also, I have found if I take Ibuprofen or some thing like that my vision is not as clear as if I didn’t take anything. My vision is blurry but not real bad , just not sharp like it should be. A muscle relaxer will destroy my vision so I try to stay away from them period. The DRY eyes are a real problem to me.
 
Honestly it could be the scope too. I recently had a scope that i just couldnt quite get clear and adjusted right. It was very difficult. So i sent it back. Also my brother bought a cheap riton 1 and it was bad on parallax adjustment, but it seemed fairly clear throughout the adjustment range which made me think something was wrong with it.
My sightron and nikon however always find focus and parallax fine. Always been clear for me.
 

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