Riflescope Guide: 7 Ways Your Scope May Sabotage Accuracy

When it comes to precision riflescope features, glass gets the most ink. Marketers paint a picture that glass and lens coatings magically turn night into day and reveal detail that make the impossible shots possible. Afterall, you can’t hit what you can’t see. Most overlook the mechanical components of the scope. If they are wonky, you’ll miss the shot even if you can count the hairs on its chinny chin chin. In my tests, the poorest performing scopes are the ones in which turret tracking and/or reticle scale are out of tolerance. The following are the top 7 errors I have caught while testing riflescopes.

Anatomy of a Riflescope

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