Are air gunners more informed on ballistics and scopes?
I've been to out local shooting range many times talking to other shooters about bullet drop and noticed most have no clue what their projectile does after it leaves the barrel.
I'm on the hunt for a small scope to fit on my Dream Tact. I do have a small Discovery scope but the scope rings block the mag.
I thought about buying a cantilever rings but I first thought about looking if our local Sportsman's Warehouse had a magnified short range AR scope. Something with holdover points.
While I was there, a sales-dude asked if I had any questions. I was looking at Vortex's prismatic scope and asked if the 5x scope had parallax error at close range.
The guy looked at me and said, "You only need to adjust your parallax if you don't have perfect eye sight, you have astigmatism, or if you shoot with one eye close."
I tried not to laugh but I asked him where he heard that, and was told the sporting goods manager told him that's what parallax was for.
In a polite way, I told him the reason you adjust parallax is to focus two lens inside the scope to your target you are trying to hit. You can notice parallax error if you move your eye up and down and see if the reticle moves. If you take out the parallax error at a certain distance, the reticle shouldn't move. He looked at me and said I was totally wrong and walked off.
I've been to out local shooting range many times talking to other shooters about bullet drop and noticed most have no clue what their projectile does after it leaves the barrel.
I'm on the hunt for a small scope to fit on my Dream Tact. I do have a small Discovery scope but the scope rings block the mag.
I thought about buying a cantilever rings but I first thought about looking if our local Sportsman's Warehouse had a magnified short range AR scope. Something with holdover points.
While I was there, a sales-dude asked if I had any questions. I was looking at Vortex's prismatic scope and asked if the 5x scope had parallax error at close range.
The guy looked at me and said, "You only need to adjust your parallax if you don't have perfect eye sight, you have astigmatism, or if you shoot with one eye close."
I tried not to laugh but I asked him where he heard that, and was told the sporting goods manager told him that's what parallax was for.
In a polite way, I told him the reason you adjust parallax is to focus two lens inside the scope to your target you are trying to hit. You can notice parallax error if you move your eye up and down and see if the reticle moves. If you take out the parallax error at a certain distance, the reticle shouldn't move. He looked at me and said I was totally wrong and walked off.
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how would they know the difference?
