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Posted: 5/4/2026 10:42:58 PM EDT
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This is not my picture but it is similar to what I experienced on two different DD rifles. Had a Stryker hd 1-6 in a ADM recon qd mount. Put it on two different rifles and when it was zeroed, when it was dialed back to 1x, the crosshairs were off center. Barrels were centered in hand guard for both rifles. What caused this just a bad mount/lpvo combo or something with the rifle? https://imgur.com/a/YMFD8Ik Picture taken from Reddit. |
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The reticle appearing off-center is not an indication of a problem, but rather a reality of some scopes. To build the scope with all of the lenses aligned to the reticle and remove parallax, it will appear this way sometimes. Other factors that may (but don't always) have an impact on your experience include diopter setting, mechanical zero, and mount choice (ie. 0moa vs 20moa). It's not something to worry about, if your rifle is properly zeroed and maintaining POI. |
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Originally Posted By phlegm: The reticle appearing off-center is not an indication of a problem, but rather a reality of some scopes. To build the scope with all of the lenses aligned to the reticle and remove parallax, it will appear this way sometimes. Other factors that may (but don't always) have an impact on your experience include diopter setting, mechanical zero, and mount choice (ie. 0moa vs 20moa). It's not something to worry about, if your rifle is properly zeroed and maintaining POI. Good to know. Thanks |
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Your reticle has to move to be zero’d. Unless your upper, barrel, mount, and optic are all perfectly centered, this is normal to a certain degree. Usually it’s not enough for people to notice, sometimes it is. There is likely an outlier there, but it’s nothing to worry about if you have adequate adjustment for your realistic needs. I had a Leupold in a somewhat respected but cheap UTG mount years ago that I only had a few clicks of elevation before it bottomed out. Once I put it in a better mount I had to adjust it WAY back towards dead center. Both mounts were 0 cant. Ilya did a Q&A with a Guntuber about this a couple years ago but I couldn’t find it. |
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You have two issues that combined to make the issue so bad, on your example photo, judging strickly from that photo. 1. The mount looks like it cants to the left when viewed from the shooter position. This is not that unusual. All scope mounts cant to one side or the other, as nothing is perfect, but usually by such a small degree you dont notice. For this mount it leans to the left when viewed from the rear quite a bit. This directly results in the scope body being offset... which does not matter if your reticle is aligned to level. It litterally just translates to to a permanent offset to the side the gunsight leans to, which you would leave in your zero if you had unlimited resolution of clicks. Usually this is under 1/8" so even with a 1/4 MOA scope zeroed at 100 yards a single click would over shoot if you tried to correct for the offset. 2. The bigger issue is that scope has a canted reticle. And the reticle is shifted clockwise. And a lot! This places the bottom edge of the reticle further left than the aiming point if you aligned the turrets vertical. These two factors have combined to make that reticle appear to be aligned very far to the left. A different scope mount will fix part of the issue, but the canted reticle issue will remain. If you ensure the reticle is perfectly level, your turrets will track significantly off as you dial them if you have the aame issue. From the photo, it looks to be several degrees on that scope. So MOST of the issue is with the scope in that example. |
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