Rifle Scopes Try to figure this one out.

[joedirt14]

Hello. hope you all are well.

I have a Leupold Mk4 fixed 10x TMR, its the perfect scope for my rifle.

just one thing that's been bugging me as my other scopes don't seem to be as finiky, (Vortex HST & PST)

at 100 meters when i adjust the parallax it must be set to infinity to eliminate the parallax, however the target image is a blurry blob.
when I adjust the parallax knob for a clean crisp target image, there is LOTS of parallax movement.

at 15ft inside the house, if i turn the parallax knob right down, the scope will focus very clear on say a wall power socket with almost no parallax movement, 15ft is pretty darn close to be able to get a crisp image at 10x

Is this normal with these scopes?

it seems to me that the image focus/parallax range may have been set at the factory for a very close range.

And yes, the eye piece has been set correct to show a clean crisp reticle regardless of focus knob settings.

just trying to see if its just me doing something wrong, as i have never heard of anyone having anything wrong with the older fixed power Leupolds, if its the scope ill just send it in on warranty.

 

[GotM118LR]

You need to do 2 things:

1) You say the reticle is clear regardless of parallax setting. Its possible you are straining your eye to bring it into focus. There is plenty of instruction out there on how to do this, but basically turn your parallax toward infinity until it stops. Look at the sky, and adjust until the reticle is in focus. Check by relaxing your eye, looking at the sky not thru the scope, then quickly looking thru the scope with both eyes open and seeing if the reticle is instantly in focus. You dont wanna strain your eye to bring it into focus like you would if you put on someone else's glasses. Adjust until you can keep both eyes open and go back and forth quickly from focusing on he sky to thru the scope and not have to take a few seconds to let your eye focus.

2) the parallax turret can be slipped just like the windage and elevation. So it's possible turning it to the infinity mark isnt really turning it to infinitum After the ocular is properly focused, find something at 100yds, adjust parallax knob until its parallax free, loosen the Allen screw on your parallax knob, then slip the parallax turret to the 100yd mark (or the first dot) and tighten the screw.

 

[joedirt14]

You need to do 2 things:

1) You say the reticle is clear regardless of parallax setting. Its possible you are straining your eye to bring it into focus. There is plenty of instruction out there on how to do this, but basically turn your parallax toward infinity until it stops. Look at the sky, and adjust until the reticle is in focus. Check by relaxing your eye, looking at the sky not thru the scope, then quickly looking thru the scope with both eyes open and seeing if the reticle is instantly in focus. You dont wanna strain your eye to bring it into focus like you would if you put on someone else's glasses. Adjust until you can keep both eyes open and go back and forth quickly from focusing on he sky to thru the scope and not have to take a few seconds to let your eye focus.

2) the parallax turret can be slipped just like the windage and elevation. So it's possible turning it to the infinity mark isnt really turning it to infinitum After the ocular is properly focused, find something at 100yds, adjust parallax knob until its parallax free, loosen the Allen screw on your parallax knob, then slip the parallax turret to the 100yd mark (or the first dot) and tighten the screw.

Thank you very much for the reply, I appreciate it.

The reticle is focused correct, I didn't look through the scope for more than 3 seconds at a blue sky before taking my eyes away from the scope for about 10 seconds and looking around before trying again and again while making adjustment to the ocular housing.

I was aware of the turret being able to be slipped, but never seen how it would help, as when the drum is maxed out, you cant adjust any further unless you go back down.

Ill keep fiddeling with it tomorrow, i'm almost certain the problem is me, but can't seem to figure out how... hell there is only 2 thngs to adjust and one of the most simple scopes around haha.

 

[hk dave]

Is it possible your front objective lens moved?

 

[joedirt14]

Is it possible your front objective lens moved?

That's what I was thinking too, seeing as it will focus at 15ft (ridiculously close) and to get it to focus at 100 meters requires the infinity setting. it almost seems like it was set up for ultra short range OR the objective lese has moved/installed wrong.

I know on both my Vortex scopes you can't get a clear picture anything less than about 50 meters, the only time you need infinity is past about 600 meters-ish.

 

[hlee]

Call or email leupold support. Leupold gets a beating around here, but my limited experience has been that they have really good customer support. We can all circle jerk each other about what the problem might be, but CS can have an RMA to you before we come up with a diagnosis. Yes, you’ll be without your broken scope for a week or 2, but you can’t really use it anyway...