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Ranging appears somewhat consistent on my Hawke Sidewinder Tactical so I adjusted the wheel to be on at 50 yards then used a pencil to mark off shorter measured distances.
I may need to re-calibrated that when I move back to shooting 100 yards.
One thing to remember about that, is it only works well above a certain magnification. It’s been a while, so I don’t remember the exact numbers, but I think it is in the high 20x or low 30x range for range estimation with parallax to work. That is fine for target shooting, but for hunting it is a bit out of the question. Oh, and it only works down below 50ish yards. So forget it for real long range shooting.
Basically, what I am trying to say is unless you are target shooting it is going to be hard to use. It would probably be better to learn to range estimate on your own, or buy a real rangefinder to do it. I just never trusted the parallax thing for hunting.
Just my 2 pennies. 😀
At first I made some sheets with the help of Chairgun PRO software, on the holdover at different zooms at different distances. I had the Hawke scope that had the company’s sidewheel, which was loose and the markings were bad anyway. Sold the entire package.
Now I have a Sightron that tracks superbly, and the focus is so perfect that he begged for a sidewheel, which he didn’t have from the factory. I ordered a custom sidewheel and turret and used the ScopeKnob software to print some tapes for them(20-25 bucks).
I wanted to use the Hawke ChairGun PRO software, which is more than good and further more is free, but it didn’t let me setup a knob that has more than 80 clicks per revolution. Mine being 100c/r I end up with ScopeKnob.
Keep in mind that Hawke only does turrets but not sidewheels. On the other hand, I thought ScopeKnob is expensive until I’ve seen the results. No after-field adjustments at all.
As a side advice. You can use ScopeKnob and print on Self Adhesive Clear Labels sheets and print them with a laser printer. The final product is superb. Just experiment first with plain paper as the SACL are pretty expensive.
Hope this is helpful…
TBH I never look at the graduations. I rotate the focus wheel past focus (turning toward longer range), then rotate back down until the image focuses.
Thats the recommended procedure for side-focus scopes and it works very well.
I have never trusted the markings because that assumes I have taken the time to judge the distance, and I rarely do that either. 😆
You never watched American Airgunner? 😛 Seriously those Side Focus graduations are way off and if you shoot game at considerable ranges it makes a difference.
Why would you need tape on the side focus wheel anyways? 😕
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Nice job. I just ordered the 4″ wheel and suspect the fit will have a slight amount of wiggle as well. Sightron scopes are very good. I’ll check in to Scopeknob. Your link (underline) didnt work.
For the precise long range shooter all of the manual magnification techniques are not good enough and some parallax error will exist. I set distances using the range finder and then set the side focus so there is NO parallax error and and then mark the tape on the wheel.
Then we use both the rangefinder and the wheel for an exact setting. I only did this on my gun that shoots exclusively from a bench rest.
Now I have a Sightron that tracks superbly, and the focus is so perfect that he begged for a sidewheel, which he didn’t have from the factory. I ordered a custom sidewheel and turret and used the ScopeKnob software to print some tapes for them(20-25 bucks).
I wanted to use the Hawke ChairGun PRO software, which is more than good and further more is free, but it didn’t let me setup a knob that has more than 80 clicks per revolution. Mine being 100c/r I end up with ScopeKnob.
Keep in mind that Hawke only does turrets but not sidewheels. On the other hand, I thought ScopeKnob is expensive until I’ve seen the results. No after-field adjustments at all.
As a side advice. You can use ScopeKnob and print on Self Adhesive Clear Labels sheets and print them with a laser printer. The final product is superb. Just experiment first with plain paper as the SACL are pretty expensive.
Hope this is helpful…