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Video: Understanding scope parallax adjustment

This article originally appeared on The Firearms Blog.

GY6 Vids does a great job explaining what Parallax Adjustment is. Some people call it Adjustable Objective. It is the same thing. Scopes with parallax adjustment help to keep the reticle and the objective in the same plane. So when you shift your head, the reticle should not move off the target.

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