Great advice I love all the videos you guys share. I just recently got a 2-7x35mm for my first AR. I found that my eyesight just isn't good enough with a 1-4 unless I'm within 75 yards or so at 4x magnification. Wanting to reach out a bit further and more clearly identify targets I went with something a bit more. Even at 2x I noticed I can still acquire close up targets very rapidly. Maybe not as fast as an unmagnified reflex sight, but fast enough once I figured out a consistent cheek weld and shoulder position each time. Small trade off but I just don't like the 1-4's as much as some people do.
Thanks! New to scopes and this helped a lot!👍kept hearing terms I was unfamiliar with. And learned the difference in scout scopes vs regular, more common seeming scopes
Am I right in thinking that when the rifle is mounted in a comfortable/natural shooting position, you then set the scope on the rifle to suit your eye, I have a Simmons white tail classic3.5x10x50 and a Leupold 6x42, the position of the scopes on the rifles are totally different, the Simmons having to be set much further back.
I different have this problem My Question is that I have done a lot of lawn works 35+ years and retirered I have abrasion on my pupils both eyes will this still give me problems and how can I get this right
Good video that could have been great if you had shown what it actually looks like looking through the scope. Also, would have been better if the scope guy didn’t keep getting his words mixed up. He’s probably not used to being filmed because he was in the video I watched previous to this one and he did it in that one as well
Tim O'Connor should NEVER teach anything to anyone. What a terrible teacher and he didn't intuitively understand the host's questions. He just spills out a whole bunch of technical terms.
4:00 I don't think the guy understood his point. If the magnification is turned up, he's asking how that changes things. He can't explain things for crap and he didn't understand the old man's question. Yes, you do need to move your head closer. He's not asking about whether the scope was mounted properly ya dimwit. What he wants to understand is that if you turn up the magnification, the eye relief (or whatever) will move forward (ie your head will have to move forward). If you turn down the magnification, you'll want to move back. Therefore, if you want to set up your scope properly, at high magnification you want to be as far away from the scope as possible and at low mag you want to be as close as possible.
The whole point was to set the scope where you don't need to move your head at all. The ranges (of a decent scope should) overlap, and if you put the scope where your eye is in the part that overlaps, you don't have to move your head.
@@Bob5mith Yes, that's obvious. The rep didn't understand the host's question. The host was asking what happens when the mag is increased in terms of how to set the scope up properly. When the rep said "No", he didn't understand where the host was going with the question. It was ALREADY mentioned you don't want to move your head at all earlier @2:50. The host obviously wasn't saying at 4:00 that he's suppose to move his forward when he increases the magnification....
@@Bob5mith I've noticed people saying the host...but the issue wasn't the host...it was the Leupold rep. He did a TERRIBLE job explaining things. I'm an engineer and when I explain things...I don't use technical terms. For Christ's sake, you first relate the terms and explain things in plain english. When I talk about what I do I never say things like "Modulus of Elasticity", "Moment Arm" or "Resonance Frequency from the FEA". I EXPLAIN things so people understand. Most of all, I understand WHAT a person is asking and trying to understand. My pet peeve are bad teachers if you haven't noticed already. I enjoy making sure people understand things and it's hard for me not to despise bad teachers.
I “knew” all of this in separate details. However, this tied it all together in a super useful way.
Great video, thanks for posting this. I'd kind of intuited what eye relief was, but now I understand it and the concept of the eyebox precisely.
Great advice I love all the videos you guys share. I just recently got a 2-7x35mm for my first AR. I found that my eyesight just isn't good enough with a 1-4 unless I'm within 75 yards or so at 4x magnification. Wanting to reach out a bit further and more clearly identify targets I went with something a bit more. Even at 2x I noticed I can still acquire close up targets very rapidly. Maybe not as fast as an unmagnified reflex sight, but fast enough once I figured out a consistent cheek weld and shoulder position each time. Small trade off but I just don't like the 1-4's as much as some people do.
Thanks! New to scopes and this helped a lot!👍kept hearing terms I was unfamiliar with. And learned the difference in scout scopes vs regular, more common seeming scopes
This is the best explanation I've yet seen as to how I can determine the proper forward/back position for mounting my scopes. Thank you!
I tested a Walmart scope on my .30-06 yesterday. 'Eye Box' was located within the 'Loss of Eye Zone'
...$60 scope broke my $300 glasses.
Bingo! Great explanation!
Am I right in thinking that when the rifle is mounted in a comfortable/natural shooting position, you then set the scope on the rifle to suit your eye, I have a Simmons white tail classic3.5x10x50 and a Leupold 6x42, the position of the scopes on the rifles are totally different, the Simmons having to be set much further back.
I different have this problem My Question is that I have done a lot of lawn works 35+ years and retirered I have abrasion on my pupils both eyes will this still give me problems and how can I get this right
Good video that could have been great if you had shown what it actually looks like looking through the scope. Also, would have been better if the scope guy didn’t keep getting his words mixed up. He’s probably not used to being filmed because he was in the video I watched previous to this one and he did it in that one as well
I'm so confused..................sheesh
Guy explaining things is terrible and can't teach properly.
This confused me I have to admit
Tim O'Connor should NEVER teach anything to anyone. What a terrible teacher and he didn't intuitively understand the host's questions. He just spills out a whole bunch of technical terms.
4:00 I don't think the guy understood his point. If the magnification is turned up, he's asking how that changes things. He can't explain things for crap and he didn't understand the old man's question.
Yes, you do need to move your head closer. He's not asking about whether the scope was mounted properly ya dimwit. What he wants to understand is that if you turn up the magnification, the eye relief (or whatever) will move forward (ie your head will have to move forward). If you turn down the magnification, you'll want to move back. Therefore, if you want to set up your scope properly, at high magnification you want to be as far away from the scope as possible and at low mag you want to be as close as possible.
The whole point was to set the scope where you don't need to move your head at all. The ranges (of a decent scope should) overlap, and if you put the scope where your eye is in the part that overlaps, you don't have to move your head.
@@Bob5mith Yes, that's obvious. The rep didn't understand the host's question. The host was asking what happens when the mag is increased in terms of how to set the scope up properly. When the rep said "No", he didn't understand where the host was going with the question. It was ALREADY mentioned you don't want to move your head at all earlier @2:50. The host obviously wasn't saying at 4:00 that he's suppose to move his forward when he increases the magnification....
@@felixchien1664 I'm pretty sure the host was playing dumb to set up questions for the guest. But he overdid it and it all became confusing.
@@Bob5mith I've noticed people saying the host...but the issue wasn't the host...it was the Leupold rep. He did a TERRIBLE job explaining things. I'm an engineer and when I explain things...I don't use technical terms. For Christ's sake, you first relate the terms and explain things in plain english. When I talk about what I do I never say things like "Modulus of Elasticity", "Moment Arm" or "Resonance Frequency from the FEA". I EXPLAIN things so people understand. Most of all, I understand WHAT a person is asking and trying to understand. My pet peeve are bad teachers if you haven't noticed already. I enjoy making sure people understand things and it's hard for me not to despise bad teachers.