I milled out an aluminum tab last night and secured it with some red RTV to a scope ring. Then, I turned off the finish from a parallax wheel. Now once the wind stops blowing, I can zero at various ranges and record different elevation settings ontovthe wheel for quick reference. It's not exactly a high end system, but it works, and is easily changed should I want to shoot a different pellet in the future.
Home made range adjustment setup
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"Now once the wind stops blowing"? And that happens....when? 
Kidding aside because our range is "wind city" in the hot weather, that's a great idea.
I made similar "wheels" for a different purpose, from Plexiglass and Lexan. I'm going to revisit that for the purpose that you described.
Kidding aside because our range is "wind city" in the hot weather, that's a great idea.
I made similar "wheels" for a different purpose, from Plexiglass and Lexan. I'm going to revisit that for the purpose that you described.
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Still blowing!"Now once the wind stops blowing"? And that happens....when?
Kidding aside because our range is "wind city" in the hot weather, that's a great idea.
I made similar "wheels" for a different purpose, from Plexiglass and Lexan. I'm going to revisit that for the purpose that you described.
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We often find wind shifts of 6 feet horizontally, and 2-3 feet vertically at 125 to 160 meters, depending on the wind. When it holds, one can figure out hold and get back to hitting the silhouettes, but your system would allow better logging of the horizontal holds. At (76) memory is becoming an issue so cannot always remember what was the hold, but your system would make that simpler.
I just realized that I left out the important part. I'm talking about using this system as is, as well as on the windage adjustment of one of my AO scopes.
I just realized that I left out the important part. I'm talking about using this system as is, as well as on the windage adjustment of one of my AO scopes.
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Interesting - But why the rather small parallax wheel and the huge elevation turret. You will get more out of a larger Parallax wheel for ranging and then just a smaller turret for elevation.....Below is my standard setup for all my rifles - ø46 mm Scope turret and ø150 mm parallax wheel.
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These two wheels fit nicely together in this configuration, and I'm using my archery range finder for distance. The larger wheel gives me more room to hand write distance on and every click is well defined.
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I also don't find that using parallax for range-finding to be ideal, to use my range finder. We shoot at fixed distances, and record any different ranges.
I find that using parallax for range-finding makes my eyes strained after a short time, so simply redial to the recorded distances.
I also find SF scopes unsatisfactory because the numbers are tiny, and having to use a large wheel creates additional hassles. My AA S510, has the magazine instertion on the left so the SF wheel had to go very soon.
OTOH, I intend to experiment with a similar windage and elevation "large wheel" setup to see how that works out.
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The parallax on this scope isn't so sensitive that I could use it as a range finder, so the wheel is just fine.
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