Kenny

Wish I could afford a nice nightforce

Hard hitting ft/lbs of a 30cal

I think I might have found the answer. Backlash is slop, movement, or inaccurate and mushy clicks in the turret due to its mechanical construction and placement in the erector tube. The Bushnell Elite LRHS 3-12×44 features a Side Focus for Parallax correction. To prevent backlash, you have to dial the side focus all the way up until it stops. From here you can dial down to the distance you want. If your side focus is set for 400 yards and you want to dial down to 150 yards, you can do that no problem. But, if you want to dial up from 150 yards to 400 yards, you’ll need to start all over again by dialing up and then coming down. The goal is to keep backlash completely to one side. If you decided to calibrate from the bottom end up, recoil will only kick the internal mechanisms in the erector tube out of your intended setting. Always dial up and then come down every time if you’re going from close range to long range.

Thanks for the replies guys, The scope I'm using is a cheap leatherwood hi-lux, It is very clear out to 24x but I have to adjust the parallax to focus in at that power. I'm starting to think that maybe that is my problem. I keep a red dot on my .556 but I wanted to find out how accurate it was at 100 yards so I bought this scope just for that purpose, When I seen how clear it was I decided to mount it on my 308. for a keeper. Maybe I just need to buy a better scope. I don't really understand parallax and focus anyway.

when I zeroed in at 200 yards my shots would hit to the right when shooting at 100. If I zero my scope at 100 yards and shoot at 100 yards it cuts holes. If I then shoot it at 50 or 200 it hits left.

I have a Rock River LAR8 that will cut holes at 100 yards with 168 gold medal match, my problem is that when I shoot at 50 or 200 yards it keeps hitting left. When shooting at 200 I adjusted my scope but when shooting at 100 again my shots were off. I can't understand this, anybody have any ideas?