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B & L BALVAR A ?

MIKE WISKEY
Recently got a rifle with this scope on it, the scope is clear and in good shape as are the mounts. my question is, there are 'bumps' on the cross hairs at regular intervals (similar to mil dots, but not as big). what are these for?
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  • GuvamintCheese
    What else could it be besides a way to adjust your elevation depending on the distance of the target???
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  • Ambrose
    I have one like that, too. I have no idea what they are for.
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  • MIKE WISKEY
    "besides a way to adjust your elevation depending on the distance of the target???".........Well, that's why I'm asking, they aren't evenly spaced like mil dots. they are the same distance from center for each concentric space.
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  • perry shooter
    Hello mike lets say the hairs cross at 100 yard zero the next one down is 200 yards then 300 yards and then 400 yards the first one would be a small distance and then the second one a larger distance to the first one and then the Third one even further to the second one.The drop gets steeper as the bullet gets further away. Just a thought.
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  • rsnyder55
    Are they on the verticle cross hair, the horizontal crosshair or both?

    For my rifle, with a zero at 200yds, the ballistic charts show a drop of 5 inches 300yds and a drop of 15 inches at 400yds. Drop is not necessarily linear with distance.
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  • sandwarrior
    The only way to tell is to put the scope on a 100 yd. target with 1" / 1/2" grid patern and measure what the dots are and then try and figure what they mean. It could be some kind of drop compensator or it could be (as the scope being a Balvar is older?) that they made those dots like mil-dots are made, just a different distance between.

    Is the scope 1st or 2nd focal plane?
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  • MIKE WISKEY
    "Are they on the verticle cross hair, the horizontal crosshair or both?".......both.......not evenly spaced, first a longer distance then a shorter one then a longer one then a longer one again.

    "Is the scope 1st or 2nd focal plane?".......not sure what that means?..............ok, this is a fixed power scope (4x ?)
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  • sandwarrior
    First focal plane the crosshairs stay the same size relative to the target. Even though the target gets bigger or smaller with change of power. In the second focal plane, as you go up and down in power the crosshairs get bigger or smaller on the target with higher or lower power.

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    quote:Originally posted by MIKE WISKEY
    "Are they on the verticle cross hair, the horizontal crosshair or both?".......both.......not evenly spaced, first a longer distance then a shorter one then a longer one then a longer one again.

    "Is the scope 1st or 2nd focal plane?".......not sure what that means?..............ok, this is a fixed power scope (4x ?)



    Sorry, I had it in my mind this was a 3-9x. FFP/2FP don't matter then.
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