Disappearing cross hairs

[nderfel]

Morning all.

Picked up a nice shiny .22 rf with a meopta 7x50 scope on it. Got it from jgguiness on here, nice bloke and couldn't be more helpful.

I have an issue whereby the centre fine cross hairs and the range finder in the bottom corner disappear completely when looking at anything under about 50 yards.
I can't change the focus so Is it just a case of eye relief and getting it set up for me. Any ideas?

Cheers

Nick

Edited April 7, 2014 by nderfel

[kent]

I have known this happen with these before, I cant quire remember why but I think it might have been to do with Parallax as after all nobody ranges a deer at 50 yards through the scope and those marks are a long way from the centre of a 50mm objective. The centre of the cross hair not being visible is focus, 7x and it should come in just fine when set up correctly quite easy and this is puzzling. Do you wear or need eye correction perhaps?

[nderfel]

thanks kent - nope, no eye correction or glasses, 20/20 vision. it also happened for the other guys with me.

 

can you adjust the focus on this scope then? if not it might just be head on the stock or eye relief or something - time to have a tinker me thinks.

[bicykillgaz]

do you mean both at the same time? i've owned 4 fixed mag meopta with the 4a and 4b reticles, only time i had the cross reticle disapear was either head positioning/mounting the scope to far back or the crosshair was difficult to see when i looked through the rangefinding part of the reticle but thats because you have to angle the scope differently so your not actually looking at the crosshair properly.

 

if you decide you dont like the 7x50 can you let me have first refusals as i want another for my .22hornet depending on condition obviously.

 

gary

[cooter]

do you mean both at the same time? i've owned 4 fixed mag meopta with the 4a and 4b reticles, only time i had the cross reticle disapear was either head positioning/mounting the scope to far back or the crosshair was difficult to see when i looked through the rangefinding part of the reticle but thats because you have to angle the scope differently so your not actually looking at the crosshair properly.

 

I'd go with this.

 

I use one of these Meoptas' and never had a problem.

Recently I was out guiding someone and he asked where the cross hair was on my scope. Once he moved his head back slightly it appeared.

[kent]

thanks kent - nope, no eye correction or glasses, 20/20 vision. it also happened for the other guys with me.

 

can you adjust the focus on this scope then? if not it might just be head on the stock or eye relief or something - time to have a tinker me thinks.

 

 

Of course you can adjust the focus (all is explained now) You focus with the back end, I suspect your all a muddle with PA adjusters and focus they are not the same! This scope is fixed Parallax without adjustment but it still focuses.

While focusing pick a distant fixed object and do not look through the scope for more than a second to discern if its in or out of focus as the human eye will adjust, likewise don't look while you turn until you get down to the final twiddle. You either have a locking ring to loosen before the whole eye-bell or a fast focus that can be altered in a flash by winding in and out

I do still seem to remember they don't like real close focus as they are not really made for precise 25 yards and below shooting, though they have excellent glass quality

[nderfel]

thanks kent!

 

its the former with the locking ring, the locking ring bit is the part that foxed me, i didnt realise there was one and didnt want to start unscrewing things that seemed to be tight for a reason.