I recently bought a used Leupold M8 4x extended eye relief that I mouted on my SRH. It will be used for load development mainly. Problem is that there seems to be a paralax issue, when moving my head sideways and up/down the crosshair moves significantly on the target (I would say several inches on 25 yards). I'm totally new to handgunscopes but in a scope for a target rifle this problem is because of wrongly adjusted paralax (or focus as it may be called in the us).

-At what distance is this scope paralax free?

-Is there something wrong with my scope or is it allways like this on a handgun scope?

Most handgun scopes are set for 50 to 100 yd's. I never shoot 25 yd's and do all load and accuracy work at a minimum of 50 yd's. You are wasting time at close range! I can take my worst boolits and loads and put them in one ragged hole at 25 yd's. That gun will shoot way less then 1" at 50 yd's and I have hit pop cans at 200 yd's with it.
Back off and you will learn a whole lot more. There is just no way to tell the difference between loads at that close a range.

I just found out that the scope is paralax free at 90 yards...

I go shoot to night and I will try it at 50meters (about 55yards).

Is the SRH a .44? I have great loads for it.

Its a 454. It seems the scope is broken, the paralax error at 50m is about 50cm (about 55 yards and 20")

I shoot groups that are way too big (12") and I even got a few misses on the target....

No wonder I got it cheap...

Any Idea if Leupold can fix it? No idea how old the scope is and I'm not the original owner...

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Originally posted by Thomas M:
Its a 454. It seems the scope is broken, the paralax error at 50m is about 50cm (about 55 yards and 20")

I shoot groups that are way too big (12") and I even got a few misses on the target....

No wonder I got it cheap...

Any Idea if Leupold can fix it? No idea how old the scope is and I'm not the original owner...

Leupold has a lifetime warranty you don't have to be the original owner Leupold has product service in Sweden & Germany listed on their web site.I had an accident with a Leupold that was my fault,called service in Oregon,sent it in,they replaced the bent tube body w/o charge checked out the settings,recharged it, zeroed everything and it worked perfectly on my Sako Finnsport 300wm during a Bison hunt in Idaho.

Unfortunatly the lifetime warranty is only valid in USA I believe...

I have sent mail to the importer in Sweden regarding repair, intresting what their reply will be...

Thomas,
Email sent to your hotmail acct.

Thanks Bug, reply on its way

The Swedish importer fixed the scope for free
The warranty is 30years here in europe.

Now I have shoot some 2" groups at 50meters and I guess its my fault the groups wasn't smaller and not the scope.