Hi there.
I have just spent a small fortune on one of the above scopes and, having focussed the eyepice reticle diopter accurately at infinity (on the sky), I cannot get the scope to focus on targets closer than 35 yards (parallax turret bottoms out at this range) and there is unacceptable parallax between reticle and target at all distances below about 60 yards. The parallax is much worse than on many sub $200 scopes, at these short ranges.
Below 35 yards, I can use the eyepiece diopter to focus the target (after bottoming out the parallax turret at the so called "10 yard" setting), but of course the reticle is completely out of focus if I do this, and the parallax is, well, horribly bad. Terrible, in fact.
Has anyone else had this issue? I should also add that I am 53 years old, have no remaining eye accommodation, so that is not an issue, and have had no problems at all setting up parallax turrets, for short ranges, on much cheaper scopes. I've been shooting rifles with iron sights and scopes since I was 7 years old. I have a wife who made sacrifices so I could have this scope, and was expecting me to be happy with it.
Are Vortex just hoping that we all shoot .50 calibre centre fire with this scope, and don't bother with anything under 200 yards?
Any Ideas?
Dr Chris Kear
Somerset, Tasmania.
