Leupold Mark 5 M1C3 Rifle Scope 35mm Tube 7-35x 56mm

[hicap40]

specification calls out 100 moa elevation travel, I noticed it only has 70 moa of clicks on turret, Am i missing something?

Thanks for the help in advance

John Hiller

 

[mike a]

If the windage isn’t centered it could be holding you up.

 

[coldboreshot]

specification calls out 100 moa elevation travel, I noticed it only has 70 moa of clicks on turret, Am i missing something?

Thanks for the help in advance

John Hiller

Refer back to the scope's specs and confirm if 100moa is full travel or 200moa 100up, 100down. I'm pretty sure it's 100 full from bottom to top. You can aquire additional elevation with the use of a canted scope. Many offer large degrees of moa.

 

[coldboreshot]

Refer back to the scope's specs and confirm if 100moa is full travel or 200moa 100up, 100down. I'm pretty sure it's 100 full from bottom to top. You can aquire additional elevation with the use of a canted scope. Many offer large degrees of moa.

Sorry, canted scope ring base

 

[hicap40]

Leupolds response:


John,

100 MOA is the total amount of travel available while the dial can adjust up to 71.5 MOA. The scope can adjust about 50MOA up or down. So if you were to use a 20 MOA base, that would allow you to use 20 MOA more Down to sight in, and would let you access the full travel of the dial. But that nothing will allow the dial to travel more than that 71.5 MOA. The advantage of having 100 MOA total travel is that you don't have to correct the scope with as steep of a mount to get the full travel of the dial. Hope that helps.

Best regards,

Chance


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Leupold Mark 5 M1C3 Rifle Scope 35mm Tube 7-35 56

Literature says it has 100 moa of elevation adjustment, yet I only see 70 moa of clicks on the turret. Am i missing something ?

John Hiller

 

[jelenko]

100 MOA is the total amount of travel available while the dial can adjust up to 71.5 MOA. The scope can adjust about 50MOA up or down. So if you were to use a 20 MOA base, that would allow you to use 20 MOA more Down to sight in, and would let you access the full travel of the dial. But that nothing will allow the dial to travel more than that 71.5 MOA. The advantage of having 100 MOA total travel is that you don't have to correct the scope with as steep of a mount to get the full travel of the dial.

I don't know what that response is actually saying.
If the travel of the dial is max 71.5 - the scope isn't going to have more than 71.5 MOA of adjustment regardless of how high or low the scope starts out with.

I would have expected the response to include that the 100MOA of travel is a combination of elevation and windage.

 

[eric32]

Reset your zero stop on the scope.

 

[M W R]

Shouldn't matter. Turn the scopes elevation counter clockwise til it stops. Now turn it clockwise and count the clicks till it stops. 400 clicks is 100 MOA. (Assuming 1/4 MOA/Click) 71.5 MOA would be 286 Clicks or so.