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click or friction adjustments which are more durable on holding zero?
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Both may work and work well. Yet, we have seen both take a dump. When they fail, the failure most likely not all the same.
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I prefer clicks, if for no other reason that you can adjust them by feel, without having to break your painfully acquired (old guy joke)shooting position. That presupposes that they work properly of course. I can live with friction on set and forget optics as long as they hold zero, have for decades. Accurate clicks make zeroing and changing zero for different ammunition etc an easy pleasure.
Adjustments that don’t hold make a scope useless. Just discovered one of those a few weeks ago and it’s going back.🤞🏻
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The first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread title in the list was Leupold "fiction" adjustments!
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I have had scopes with both styles that held zero for several years. I prefer clicks.
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I have had scopes with both styles that held zero for several years. I prefer clicks. ditto
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The first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread title in the list was Leupold "fiction" adjustments! Sometimes they are fiction, even when they are click..
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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I have had scopes with both styles that held zero for several years. I prefer clicks. I prefer clicks as well for sighting a scope at the range. Set and forget. Friction is a little bit more tedious for this but not impossible.
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The first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread title in the list was Leupold "fiction" adjustments! ditto
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The first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread title in the list was Leupold "fiction" adjustments! They have mastered fiction adjustments, Brother buck.
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Both may work and work well. Yet, we have seen both take a dump. Holding zero has been about a wash for me. The actual adjustments is where I get prickly. I’m much more forgiving of a friction scope not going exactly where I want it to the first time. For new-production click adjustment scopes to do the same, I find inexcusable in this day and age. FC
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Leupold's patent (with drawings) for their detent adjustment. It's not the only way it's been done. But I believe this is how Leupold does it now. https://patents.google.com/patent/US6519890B1/en
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The first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread title in the list was Leupold "fiction" adjustments! ditto Same. At least with the clicks you know for sure that it’s them and not you..
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