Ep. 190 | What Is “Parallax” and Does It Really Matter?

Really enjoy the pod cast, for a guy that is reinserting himself back into the hunting world after a 25 year hiatus. Your knowledge has been priceless. THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR TIME AND EFFORT!🤙

In the airgun world we use parallax to estimate distance and find out how much to aim above or below. Set parallax to infinity and magnification to maximum. turn the parallax to smaller numbers. If you have a good image, you can read the distance from your parallax. It's not very correct, but good enough to determine the trajectory of the bullet.

I'm completely new to glass, and these podcasts have been invaluable to me. You've sold at least one scope. Thank you!

For the maximum parallax error calculation, you forgot to divide by the fixed parallax setting (in this case 100)? We're talking 157.5" versus the correct answer: 1.57".

I’ve recently gotten back into shooting after many years (kids, time, moves) Your podcast has been extremely helpful as I dust off my firearms and head back to the range.

Calling customer support to say “I completely missed a deer because my parallax is off” pfffttt sure you did buddy 😂😂😂

Been binge listening to your podcasts. Great info and entertaining. Quick question…Can focusing the parallax be roughly used as a range finder?

Great job, love the info...two questions, what is the optic on the AR in the picture behind Mike's head, and what kind of Spam you got up on the shelf?

Just wanted to say that this is a great class on parallax. I was attached to our companies SS platoon and vaguely remember that they had us dial in our parallax against a blank white wall as well. Good Sh*t.

I did get a few questions answered on this one, well done.

I love y’all’s scopes and binoculars. The first vortex scope i used was the diamondback 4-12x40 on a 17 HMR and I brought it out to 280 yards no joke. Then I went on to by my first vortex scope witch is the crossfire 2 3-9x40 and I got me a deer last season with it. Then I got my brother to by him the same scope for his rifle and I got my neighbor to get him and his son two diamondback 4-12x40, and just a couple months ago I went and got me a new rifle and the VIPER HS 4-16x44 with the Crossfire HD 10x42 binoculars and my neighbor is fixing to go and get him one of the VIPER HS 4-16x44 as well once he gets his new 7mm-08

Thanks for more schooling on parallax or also called objective focus. I have come to the conclusion that on a variable scope of 14x or less, the parallax adjust is not really a huge advantage, and when shooting at 100-300 yards mainly. I think I will focus my money more so on optical quality, for say a 4-12x scope. Everyone however does love to have the ability to focus the scope at any range for view ability and parallax minimizing, but as pointed out, but not as necessary unless shooting very long range small targets or varmint at 14x and much greater optical power.

This podcast was very helpful.

Really enjoying your podcasts. Thanks for the tips on setting up the scope I had no idea what it actually entailed. Very new to rifle. When you all brought up archery and talking about how it it improved your rifle shooting. You hit home. I would buy a rifle couldn’t stand shooting shooting them was getting frustrated so I would sell them. When I finally started with archery everything clicked with rifle and now I am enjoying shooting rifles.

If you’re geekin’, how about some reckoning on trans-sonic transition and why/how is instability is imparted on the boolit. Thanks!

Show Idea.... Could you guys do an 10 minute episode on the internals of scopes, and how they work. The number of lenses, how they move and are adjusted. Maybe a cut in half scope body that allows us to visualize what's happening inside the body. What if any shortcuts cheep scopes use in comparison to a quality scope. And do fixed power scopes have less parts, or lenses inside the body? Does one less lens make them transmit more light? PS.. my last 4 scopes have been Vortex scopes, they are a better value than the Leupold scopes I have always purchased before, great products, with fantastic clarity.

Scopes are an imperfect, invaluable tool that we all can’t live without

i love your pod cast i think i have seen most of them i am older than dirt u guys talked me into a 5x25x56 venom on a kidd classic 22 im going to need some help be call you guys in a few this is a far better scope than i am use to thanks again u r the best

Fixed parallax. Duplex reticle, can i use the front adjustment to focus?

Inducing scope shadow!!! That's so awesoem