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Accucover's
By: babbyc1000 Date: February 26, 2013, 1:48 pm
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I use these on all my scopes, theyre an excellent bit of kit and
cheap considering how useful they are
HTML https://www.alanrhone-store.com/images/Accucover-onrifle.jpg
apart from being a flip up cover its also an excellent and easy
way to improve accuracy and reduce parallax errors, take a look
;) you dont have to worry about your head beng in a different
position when taking a standing shot or a prone shot, also
doesnt matter if youre using a scope someone else has zeroed,
your shots should hit the exact place their shots do. i normally
dont go mad over pieces of kit but i have to say this is one of
the most useful things ive ever found lol
heres a link to the site for all the info -
HTML http://www.accucover.com/concept.aspx
and heres the ebay shop -
HTML http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AccuCover-fits-Bushnell-Leupold-Burris-Nikon-Redfield-Hawke-BSA-riflescope-/151002056297?pt=UK_SportingGoods_Hunting_ShootingSports_ET&var=&hash=item23286c8669
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Re: Accucover's
By: muffinman Date: May 11, 2013, 1:09 pm
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Do you use this for hunting or target shooting?
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Re: Accucover's
By: BenBlaker Date: May 11, 2013, 6:02 pm
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No good if using a night vision that fits on the scope though
;D
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Re: Accucover's
By: babbyc1000 Date: May 14, 2013, 4:27 pm
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if thats the only thing you cant moan about ben then these must
be a quality bit of kit! though personally i prefer night vision
that fit on the front of the scope, save messing about with your
shooting position ;)
you use it for everything muffinman, though i mostly hunt; well,
no, technically i seem to spend most of my time zeroing the
bloody rifle with the intention of hunting lol all the accucover
does is make sure youre looking directly though the scope, so
eliminates parallex errors, and negates the old problem of a
scope being zeroed to one persons eye and being off for anothers
:-\
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Re: Accucover's
By: muffinman Date: July 30, 2013, 4:40 pm
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just order one lol
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Re: Accucover's
By: babbyc1000 Date: July 30, 2013, 6:34 pm
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you wont regret it lol let me know how you get on ;)
funny story thats happened me recently. i got my .222 in may and
didnt put an accucover on right away (had a load of other things
to buy). wasnt happy with the gun, some nights it was bang on,
others i was missing simple shots. came to a head about 2 weeks
ago when i zeroed at 50 yards one night, every shot was bang on.
about an hour later i had a shot at a fox and missed. admittedly
it was a standing shot and the fox was moving about 70ish yards
out from me, but still no excuse for missing so ordered an
accucover as soon as i got home. took the gun out to rezero last
week and i found that it was about 4" high and a couple of
inches right at 50 yards, where it should have been 1/2 an inch
low :-\ so got rezeroed and the accucover seems to have sorted
it, the proof was the next night when i shot a rabbit at 250
yards - and its only a 9 power scope lol ;D
HTML http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s76/babbyc1000/1069152_680516115297154_257695746_n_zpsb70491da.jpg
heres a pic of it on the scope, bit awkward getting the camera
angle right but gives you an idea - if the arrows dont line up
with the crosshairs youre gonna miss lol
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Re: Accucover's
By: Al Dunn Date: July 31, 2013, 3:09 am
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If you're using a side or front parallax adjustable scope, you
can eliminate parallax error simply by ensuring that your ret
and the target are in sharp focus to each other. This way, it
doesn't matter who's using your gun, the scope will be zeroed
for them.
Al.
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Re: Accucover's
By: babbyc1000 Date: July 31, 2013, 3:33 am
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Yep that's true, but only works with parallel adjustable scopes,
and only if you have the time to adjust for the shot
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Re: Accucover's
By: Al Dunn Date: July 31, 2013, 9:44 am
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True about you can only do it if the facility's there, but as
for for time, surely it's better to take an extra few seconds
and be sure rather than rush a shot, with parallax error, and
risk missing or worse - wounding.
If your scope is a fixed parallax rifle (as opposed to air
rifle) scope, then it's easy to reparallax it to the distance
that you normally shoot at. That would improve things. As I'm
sure you know, most fixed parallax rifle scopes are set to 100
yards. If most of your shots are taken at around 50 yards, then
set it to 50.
Al.
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Re: Accucover's
By: babbyc1000 Date: July 31, 2013, 1:06 pm
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yes its easy enough to reset parallax, but unfortunately unless
youre talking about target shooting theres no set distance for
shots taken when hunting, ive had shots as close as 10 yards and
as far as 330 yards just in the one night. and admittedly while
rabbits are a bit more forgiving (mostly, but not always) ive
yet to find a fox that likes to oblige you while you sit around
fiddling with a rifle scope, not to mention the fact that trying
to set parallax when shooting at night takes more than a few
seconds. apart from actually remembering to do it, its fiddly as
hell trying to do it in the dark, and also consider it involves
holding a lamp on the target longer than is generally a good
idea, so theres a good chance the target will have buggered off
by the time youre set. even if it doesnt totally run off and
just moves youre back to square one, as it has to either be
reset, or you risk taking the shot and missing or wounding :-\
so what it boils down to is personal choice (whatever floats
your boat, its a supposedly free country), you can either go
through all that bollocksin about, or you can (which is my
personal choice) fit an accucover to your rifle for about £23,
which means that you simply put the crosshairs on the target and
pull the trigger (after all the usual safety checks etc etc) and
still be confident that youre parallax free.
maybe im just lazy, but i prefer the simpler way of doing things
;)
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