Re: Tall Scope Turrets?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: David S.</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: al22300</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So you are telling me that in some cases these turrets are packed full of internal parts for certain features.</div></div>
I'd say in almost all cases where people are complaining about the size, yes.
The bigger part of the design time of the mechanics of a scope isn't spent on coming up with a mechanism that performs the desired functions, it's making the damn thing small and light enough so that the target audience will actually buy it.
A "hunting" style turret for sighting in the scope has no features at all except for maybe a scale that can be set to zero. That is the most simple design, and it is also the smallest by far. Depending on the basic design of the turret, a zero stop can be added almost without size/weight penalty, or you need a fairly complicated contraption. Now the catch is that the design that makes it easy to add a zero stop will require a sophisticated mechanism to allow the turret to go beyond one revolution, and indicate that to the shooter. So you can choose wheter you want an easy zero stop, or easy multiturn capability, but you can't have both at the same time.
Now add more tactile clicks every full mrad, locking turrets, tool-less re-zero or even something like the NF +0.1 mrad lever, and shit gets taller, fatter and generally a much bigger pain to design and manufacture. Maybe downsizing the mechanism would be possible, but this would require more expensive parts, or would cause too many problems with durability and/or ease of use. It's all a multi-dimensional tradeoff, and in the end there's always someone who just looks at the thing and says <span style="font-style: italic">"Why didn't you make that smaller/lighter/cheaper/with integrated automatic blowjobs?"</span>
This doesn't mean that all compromises that different manufacturers have arrived at are equally well thought out, but chances are they aren't completely random.
Elevation range of the scope doesn't have much of an impact on the necessary size of the turret, but most modern scopes with huge elevation range tend to have more features especially in the elevation turret (zero stop and/or multiturn function), which is therefore oftentimes taller than the windage turret. </div></div>
Well it is good to know that there is a purpose for all that height other than some dude thinking hey that looks super cool man let's throw that on there
As for me, when I can, I will support those that manage to keep the profile of their scopes reasonable. I sure would like to try the razor though......
