Jordan;
Good afternoon to you sir, I hope this Victoria Day finds you and yours well.
If you're so inclined, I'd like to hear your opinion on what I just did with two different scopes I picked up for a buddy, both of them procured from various parts of our country via gunnutz.
What I came up with was that I clamped a 1" dowel rod into my Workmate bench, then screwed two Weaver bases into the dowel rod and mounted the scopes thusly.
My testing was to stick a target on the porch of the house which is 30 yards or so from the garage, move the target and the Workmate until they were sorta lined up and then I cranked the dials to see if the reticle moved.
It did in both cases - up/down and left/right - so I believe that the scopes should work okay and sent them on to my buddy.
Did I miss anything testing that way?
Thanks in advance sir and all the best to you all. Stay well.
Dwayne
Dwayne,
I hope all is well over your way. As long as your target has straight grid lines on it and the scope was mounted so that it didn't move even a little bit when you were touching the turrets, and the reticle and grid lines were aligned perfectly, then what you did confirms that the reticle is not canted relative to the erector, and the turrets move in the direction they should. But to take it a step further you can measure the angular subtension of the grid lines on your target (or mark off angular subtensions that you would like) and use them to measure the reticle subtensions, and you can also test that the turret adjustment increments are what they are advertised to be using the same technique. You can then dial back and forth and see that the reticle returns to the original spot to confirm that the erector tracks straight and repeatably, and returns to zero.
Jordan;
Thanks kindly for the reply sir, I very much appreciate it.
After reading your reply twice, I now see that while my testing proved that the scopes adjusted, I didn't confirm if the adjustments were repeatable or if there was error in how many minutes the scope moved vs what the turrets indicated they should.
Thanks for explaining it to a semi-old guy sir - but not too old to learn!!
My late father used to tell me, "If you're not learnin' something Dwayne, best look around as you're likely dead!"
Then he'd chuckle deep down, give me a pat on the arm like old guys do and say, "But you know, you're going to find out some days you don't want to learn that again.."
Luckily this isn't one of those times sir and again I believe it made good sense.
My targets have 1" grids, the Workmate can easily be made solid - couple boxes of lead and wheel weight ingots will do that fine - so I believe I'm set for next time.
Thanks so much again sir, all the best to you folks and stay well.
Dwayne