Optics Guide 9/17 - Scope Turrets and Controls

The growing feature sets of modern scopes might solve your problems...or add weight and complication. Remember to keep your scope's PURPOSE in mind!

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Options include capped or exposed turrets, zero stops, BDC turrets, locking turrets, graduations, zoom levers, side parallax adjustment, adjustable objectives, and illuminated reticles. Whatever you choose, try out the controls - including the diopter adjustment - and feel what they're like. Smooth or clunky? Easy or hard? What do the turret clicks feel and sound like? And do they track reliably? These qualities might seem inconsequential now, but once you get in the field they become much more important.

Featured Scopes:
1. US Optics TS-20X 2.5-20x50mm: https://shrsl.com/2d741
2. Nikon FX1000 4-16x50mm FFP
3. Simmons ProHunter 4x32mm Pist0l Scope: https://shrsl.com/2yvvd
4. Mueller 8.5-25x44mm Mil Dot: https://shrsl.com/2y0fh
5. Falcon S8i 1-8x24mm SFP LPVO: https://bit.ly/3t7p75J
6. Bushnell Forge 4.5-27x50mm FFP: https://shrsl.com/2csun
7. Bushnell Nitro 4-16x44mm FFP: https://shrsl.com/2ygcc
8. SWFA SS 12x42mm: https://bit.ly/2PSRYgi
9. US Optics TS-8X 1-8x24mm FFP LPVO: https://shrsl.com/2ha1u

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:55 Diopter Adjustment
03:48 Zoom Ring
05:55 Turrets
10:40 Zero Stop
11:20 Side Parallax Adjustment
13:00 Adjustable Objective
14:50 Smoothness
16:14 Who Needs Illumination?
22:35 Locking Turrets
23:53 Special Cases
27:20 Final Thoughts

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