How To Focus Your Reticle

For me everything is a little fuzzy past 10 yards. I wear corrective glasses. My question is should i set up my scope focus with or without my glasses? Also what zoom should you set the focus on or does it matter?

Excellent – thats helped me – Thanks

This is a very helpful video! I have been focusing my optics wrong for a long time. I will have to give this a try! Thank you!

SIMPLE, EXCELLENT.
Now just mark it so you don't lose it.

Thank you very much. i use contact lenses and i thought i might need to go and see the eye doctor. This fixed it perfectly. Awesome video for us corrected lens people.

Thanks I’ll be doing this tomorrow was having trouble getting crosshairs and target both in focus

Do you look at reticle or background while adjusting eyepiece?

Thank, perfect video.

Does it matter what power your scope is set at?

Thx – I had NO idea how to focus this scope – u saved me much frustration

While adjusting the diaptor do the recticle want to be clear or the object(sky)

Wow..you should be president..!! Nicely explained

Great explanation. Thanks!

Wait, What? I was supposed to take the caps off?

Does this work on airsoft sniper scopes?

Thankyou this information is critical. Quick and to the point. Perfectly explained.

Great abvise cheers!

great tip…I have been looking for instructions like this…thx

THANKS YOU SO MUCH, this video helped me a lot with my blurry scope ( Nikon )

Thank you, I had no idea how to use this feature. Very helpful video.

My cross in my scope desapirs in 6 seconds

What exactly are you focusing on when you are looking at the sky?

Great video, and easy to understand. Many thanks……from south Australia.

THANK YOU ! I have a screw type eyepiece. I followed your instruction, clear through every move of AO.

when i look at the sky with the scope the reticle looks nice, but when i look at a tree for example, the tree is sharp but the reticle is not.. how can i fix that?

No matter what I do the radical will be in focus for two seconds and then stop and it is non existent

is the picture on the background need to be clear or are we talking about just the reticle lines need to be clear ? Also, what power range do you set it on for focus?

Another tip for improving reticle focus:

If the reticle is not mechanically centered relative to the lenses within the scope, this will introduce a slight blurriness or distortion to the reticle. It can be so minor as to be almost imperceptible. HOWEVER, if you are a stickler for small details, you can use the following procedure to ensure the reticle starts off from a perfectly centered position in the scope prior to zeroing it at the range.

1) Find a mirror, preferably a hand mirror.

2) Place the mirror flat on a table.

3) Place your scope vertically on the mirror so the objective end (the end of the scope furthest from you when mounted on your rifle) is resting on the mirror. Keep a hand on it so it's stable and doesn't fall over.

4) At equal intervals around the edge of the scope resting on the mirror place some coins to slightly lift it up off the mirror's surface. This will allow a little bit of light to leak in so the image you're about to look at isn't black.

5) Look through the scope.

6) If your reticle isn't already perfectly centered you will see two reticles; one is the reticle inside of the scope, the other is a mirror image reflection.

7) Adjust your windage and elevation knobs to move the reticle inside the scope until it and the mirror image align with one another so you see only a single reticle.

8) Remove your scope from the mirror and – following your scope manufacturer's instructions – rezero your windage and elevation knobs.

9) You now have a mechanically centered reticle. Proceed to refocus with the eyepiece as per the instructions given in this video.

THANK YOU, my scope was very blurry. I tried this out, and it was fixed 😀

Wow. Been doing it wrong. Thank you sir!

so once you do that you leave it alone ?? even when you change the parelex?

Great instruction – thanks!