What do you focus on crosshair or target

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foosurdaddy

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In bullseye pistol we are tought to focus on the front sight.( I was tought to hold at 6 oclock.)
That means the target is fuzzy, because our eyes can not focus at 2 distances at the same time. I am not use to holding dead center.

My question to you is .....When shooting BR with a scope what are you focusing on? Crosshairs or target?

So far, this has been the most challenging part for me. I never really shot much with a scoped rifle. At least not any kind of target shooting.

Also are you just cuting the X ring into 1/4's

Joe Lipari
 
With the eyepiece adjusted correctly and the parallax properly dialed out the crosshair and the target image are on the same focal plane and both are sharp. The windflags, sighters and experience tell you where to put the crosshair on the target for the hole to magically appear when you touch off the shot. You also have to take into account where the gun is zero'ed [ Is the gun shooting to the crosshair or is there some holdoff involved ?].
 
As said above, if the rifle scope is properly adjusted both the crosshairs and target will be in focus. Adjusting the rear (crosshair) focus is a one time thing. Do it by the book then lock it down.

Adjusting parallax out is far MORE important than a clearly focused target. After you have adjusted focus on the scope to see the target clearly move your head a bit side to side or up and down. If the crosshair moves you have parallax. Adjust focus until the crosshairs stay in the same spot when you move your head. Do this every time you hang a new target.

Now, everyone is different when it comes to Point of Aim POA and Point of Impact POI. I want to set the dot on my scope crosshairs to intersect the X ring at 6 O-Clock. That is my POA. I want the bullet to impact at the center of the X ring. Thats POI. (When I am setting up a new scope once I have POA and POI where I want them in dead air I set the turrets to read 0.) When shooting sighters I might have to crank on the turrets to get my POA and POI where I want them. From then on its hold off for wind, different lots of ammo, air temp, humidity etc etc. When I am finished with the target or match I can reset my turrets to 0 so i have a consistent starting point next time out. bob
 
Adjusting parallax out is far MORE important than a clearly focused target. After you have adjusted focus on the scope to see the target clearly move your head a bit side to side or up and down. If the crosshair moves you have parallax. Adjust focus until the crosshairs stay in the same spot when you move your head. Do this every time you hang a new target.

Now, everyone is different when it comes to Point of Aim POA and Point of Impact POI. I want to set the dot on my scope crosshairs to intersect the X ring at 6 O-Clock. That is my POA. I want the bullet to impact at the center of the X ring. Thats POI. (When I am setting up a new scope once I have POA and POI where I want them in dead air I set the turrets to read 0.) When shooting sighters I might have to crank on the turrets to get my POA and POI where I want them. From then on its hold off for wind, different lots of ammo, air temp, humidity etc etc. When I am finished with the target or match I can reset my turrets to 0 so i have a consistent starting point next time out. bob

This has to be the best answer I have received since being here on this forum. Thank you Bob.
 
bob finger said:
Adjusting parallax out is far MORE important than a clearly focused target. bob
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After adjusting out the parallax if you find that the image is not sharp this is a good indication that you don't have the eyepiece adjusted correctly.
 
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