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snozzberries
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Location: King County Joined: Thu Oct 16, 2014 Posts: 4012
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Assuming you are right handed/eyed, which hand do you use to adjust your scope?
To dial aperture, zoom, windage, elevation.
Does it change based upon the position you are in?
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usrifle
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Location: RENTON Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2011 Posts: 20754
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Whichever one you are more comfortable using. Unless you are hanging upside down under a deuce and a half while sighting, it should generally be your left as a RH person.
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Isildur
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Location: The banana belt of Sequim Joined: Thu Feb 25, 2016 Posts: 2299
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Same one as I lube up to... err, wait, wrong discussion.
Whichever is handy, different hands are free depending if I am slinged up in a position vs. benched on bipod or bags.
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survivor
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Location: Kent Joined: Wed Mar 13, 2013 Posts: 1653
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Windage - Right hand If I were efficient at dialing for elevation. I would try to use my left hand. For zoom or power - Left hand. Side focus - Left hand
AO - Left hand. But after you use a scope with side focus you’ll never go back to AO
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Beardsli
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Location: South Snohomish County Joined: Sat Jan 16, 2016 Posts: 825
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snozzberries wrote: Assuming you are right handed/eyed, which hand do you use to adjust your scope?
To dial aperture, zoom, windage, elevation.
Does it change based upon the position you are in? Are you looking at the Kahles 5-25x and want to decide LSW vs RSW? If so, I think LSW is the way to go. I rarely use illumination, but when I do I can just use my right hand to set it. With LSW you can do everything else with your left hand (including parallax and elevation), and you can see the windage dial right away with your left eye and know if it's not zeroed if you forgot to reset it.
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Fri Sep 17, 2021 8:56 pm |
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usrifle
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Location: RENTON Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2011 Posts: 20754
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The same hand you use to feed your bore scope down the bore...
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Sinus211
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Location: Marysville Joined: Thu Mar 22, 2012 Posts: 13483
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I use marked reticles. The only adjustments I make when shooting are magnification and parallax left handed so my shooting hand stays on the grip. Everything else is hold off.
I’m right hand/right eye.
As long as your parallax is dialed moving your shooting position around shouldn’t matter too much.
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usrifle
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Location: RENTON Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2011 Posts: 20754
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It's Friday night and your right forefinger is knuckle deep in your nose. Your left forefinger is tapping the keyboard to add a Poll to the post. Your butt itches but you are looking through the Rifle scope at the TV playing an episode of Band of brothers and you are out of focus with the parallax and magnification. Booger, butt itch, or poll? What to do.....and which hand to do it with? Was it easier right handed or left, be honest.
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NWGunner
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Location: South Seattle Joined: Thu May 2, 2013 Posts: 12419
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Okay, now that was funny...
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usrifle
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Location: RENTON Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2011 Posts: 20754
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NWGunner wrote: Okay, now that was funny... I was being serious..
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Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:22 pm |
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snozzberries
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Location: King County Joined: Thu Oct 16, 2014 Posts: 4012
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Beardsli wrote: snozzberries wrote: Assuming you are right handed/eyed, which hand do you use to adjust your scope?
To dial aperture, zoom, windage, elevation.
Does it change based upon the position you are in? Are you looking at the Kahles 5-25x and want to decide LSW vs RSW? If so, I think LSW is the way to go. I rarely use illumination, but when I do I can just use my right hand to set it. With LSW you can do everything else with your left hand (including parallax and elevation), and you can see the windage dial right away with your left eye and know if it's not zeroed if you forgot to reset it. I'm definitely considering it. Got into a conversation with a buddy, that was saying the left hand holds the rifle, and the right hand that operates the bolt also adjusts the scope. I just couldn't see how that works, and was curious if I was doing it wrong by using my left hand.
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Beardsli
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Location: South Snohomish County Joined: Sat Jan 16, 2016 Posts: 825
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snozzberries wrote: I'm definitely considering it. Got into a conversation with a buddy, that was saying the left hand holds the rifle, and the right hand that operates the bolt also adjusts the scope. I just couldn't see how that works, and was curious if I was doing it wrong by using my left hand. It is personal preference as well. When using a traditional scope, I do use the RH for windage, but I also rarely touch windage.
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SporkBoy
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