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Dinner Diaries. Find a BTR Scorer. Disabled Hunters. Advertise With Us. About Buckmasters. Email Subscription. Realtree Timber2Table. Current Articles Archives Search. This Thing Called Eye Relief. Handgun optics are best served at 1x or 2x for practical hunting. Long eye relief scopes prove especially useful when aiming uphill. But keep in mind: eye relief naturally shortens when shooting upward. Many hunters spend most of their time on weapons, choosing the stock, the trigger, the ammunition.
But few spend any time figuring out the correct eye relief. To keep things simple, be sure to purchase a scope that has at least 3. Richard Douglas is a firearms expert and educator. In his free time, he reviews optics on his Scopes Field blog. Bushnell Learn Blog Through the Lens. What just happened? Why Is Eye Relief Important? A few come back with bandages over their eyebrow.
In short: If you want to avoid looking like you just finished a boxing match, then get adequate eye relief. Shooting type : Ideal for long-range shooting. Shooting Area : Best for open, flat areas. However, I did not even think twice about how close the scope was to my eye and pulled the trigger.
The ocular ring of the scope connected with my ocular bone just under my right eye and the rest of the ring went into the soft portion of my eye. I ended up with blood coming out of a cut just under my eye and the impact had caused some of the blood vessels in my eye to burst so I also had blood in my eye.
Within about 3 hours, my entire eye had swollen shut and I looked like I had gotten into the ring with Mike Tyson. Again, it was completely and absolutely my fault as I was not paying attention, but it was a lesson I never forgot.
This part gets a bit confusing as the eye relief on a scope is a fixed setting, so you have to actually move the scope either forward or backwards in the ring or rings to adjust the eye relief to that specific shooters personal preferences.
Once the scope is temporarily mounted in the rings, have the shooter close both eyes, mount the rifle or shotgun to their shoulder, put their face on the stock in a natural position that they would normally use. Then open both eyes and see what they immediately see through the scope with their dominate eye.
Normally, for a right handed shooter, the dominate eye is the right eye, and a left handed shooter is the left eye, but there are people who are cross eye dominate so a RH shooter has a dominate left eye and vice-versa. This technique works for standard dominate and cross eye dominate shooters just fine. If you or the shooter looks through the scope at a specific item and sees wide dark ring around the outside of the scope, but can see the entire reticle, then the scope is too close to the shooters eye, and needs to be away from the shooters eye as in moved forward in the rings to adjust eye relief.
If you look through the scope and see a dark ring around the very outside edge of the scope view, and can only see a portion of the reticle; then the scope is too far away and needs to be moved in the rings back towards the shooters eye. See image below. If you or the shooter look through the scope at the target and see a full field of view of the target, then the eye relief is good, and the scope should be marked in the rings at that specific position.
See below. Keep repeating this process until you get the scope to the position where you or the shooter sees a complete field of view without any black rings or dark spots. Once the scope has been adjusted within the rings to the point where the eye relief is optimal, I usually mark the position in the rings with a small piece of masking tape.
Then I place the rifle or shotgun back on the bench and check to ensure that the reticle is level.
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