by Apollo » 08 Dec 2022, 7:17 pm
I was going to add that the only scopes I can remember that had the 1/4" 100 Yards markings were budget price range types and that confirms it really. They were also the ones that companies sold that were Made In China if / not that makes any difference. Fairly sure many decades ago on a 22LR I had a Nikko something which wasn't too bad for a cheap Norinco Rifle but I upgraded everything to the likes of a Brno and Zeiss Scope.
Also many decades ago I had a mate that was involved with a Scope Repair Business and this story came up. From memory I think he described the internals of any Scope as being "Angular Adjustments" ie MOA but for the not so educated and save confusion they marked the dials in Linear...ie 1/4" /100 Yards. Really it makes SFA difference to daily use and it's not worth arguing about. Who cares, as long as you know how to adjust it to what you want.
The only Scope I have really not liked belonged to a mate, It was a Zeiss Duralyte the had 1/3 whatever adjustment, the rifle being used was very accurate but I could not get the scope on centre... it was either a tad left or right.. what a pain but he lives with it aiming a tad back. Glass is very good.
Bit like telling people it only takes 3 shots to set a scope to zero on target. One for a marker, second to adjust to zero and if you want a third to confirm your zero then you can adjust to a set distance to suit where you want.