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poison dwarf
Hawk 10x42 tactical from a HFT perspective ( First Impression)
Setting the parallax for HFT shooting ( I chose 25 yards) You can get the crosshair to move out of a 40mm kill at 10 yds by moving your head. So head position for shorter tartgets is critical.
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Basically, if you do the 'head bob' and your reticle appears to move when you move your head/eye up and down and side to side there is one thing wrong, and it aint the scope.
Basically you have not matched the front lense focus with the eye piece focus correctly and the scope is not set paralax free at your intended range.
It is imperative when setting up paralax adjustable scopes that you get the eye focus right as the very 1st step, Ignore what they tell you about setting focus to infinity and pointing scope at the sky then getting a sharp cross hair image, that is not correct.
Point you scope at a target at 15yds, paralax set for infinity, now adjust eye piece focus until crosshairs are sharp, note: if you wear glasses you must wear them when looking through the scope as it will all go to #### trying to get rid of paralax if you dont!
Next start to use adjust the paralax until the target is sharp, forget about the crosshairs being sharp, once target is sharp then adjust eyepiece agin untill crosshairs and target are both sharp, this will now be paralax free at that range, do the head bob and side to side and if there is still movement of crosshair repeat or adgust paralaxe and eyepiece again, its the eyepiece focus that is the key to getting rid of paralax.
If I try this without mu glasses on I can get the yepeice focused up great, but once I adjust the sidewheel to get target in focus it al looks good untill I mofe my head around, then, like you say, the crosshairs move.
But if I do this with my glasses on, im short sighted, then I have no problems at all, target ans crosshairs all rock solid.
Cheers
Mark
. I couldn't get much PA error going at all
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