You might be surprised when you take it out and look at a few things at say 25 to 30 yds, especially on the lower mags of 4, 5, or 6. I was looking through a Hawke Vantage 3-9 this afternoon at my local range which was parallaxed at 100 yds and at 20 yds on x8 mag it was very nearly in full focus, course you had to get your eye alignment spot on every time but I sometimes think that we overlook non AO scopes, at least I used to 'till lately.