My EP5 5/25 works well, but the parallax settings are completely out to lunch. For example, at a 1000 yard target a careful parallax adjustment (not merely sharp focus) shows about 175 yards on the scale.
Anyone else seeing this or is mine defective???
Thanks!
Mine is the same. At 1000 yards I’m probably at like 300-500 somewhere on the parallax. I tend to just move it until it’s most clear but it’s nowhere near the markings on the parallax.
Same issue here. I sent a couple of emails to Arken a week or two ago and still waiting on a response.
My parolax and my color x on the scope knobs are so tight that I can hardly move them. Do you have a solution for me?
Your eye sight plays a role in this for me I have to offset the setting by 20 yards. But be aware the scale between the scope and eye is nonlinear. The offset to correct for your eye sight (increases or deecreases depending if your nearsighted or farsighted and depends on how far off your eye sight is). For me 20 yard offset works well you could adjust the offset slightly as you move up or down the scale. You could just check offset at 100 yards and at 300 yards if the offset is 20 yards at 100 yards and 24 yards at 300 that means your offset is 20 and to correct for scale move up the scale every 50 yards you need to correct by one. If your farsighted or nearsight it is just inverse (-20 yards verses + 20 yards). For me a offset of 20 yards works well except the very top and bottom. You will always have issues at the bottom range say 25 yards and top 700 or so yards.
Hope this helps you troubleshoot your issue and sorry for the long post.
The parallax on my EPL-4 6-24 is a joke. The 200 yard marked setting is more like the "infinity". It corrects parallax pretty good from 500-out. However, everything inside of about 300 yards is so blurry that you can't use it. At around 150 yards is where the marking and reality seem to meet. Cross hair "wander", focus, and actual distance are closest to being correct. However everything past 200 or inside 100 is blurry. To stop the cross hair wander at 100 yards requires a "setting" of about 60 yards. Using this scope is a constant Circus of adjustments between parallax (no cross hair wander) and focus. I shouldn't have to find the magic spot of no wander and then refocus the ocular every time I want to shoot a different distance. This is not how a hunting scope should act. I am forced to leave the parallax at "200" so that it actually functions at longer distances, and hope that if a closer shot presents itself, the parallax won't matter as much, and I will "hope" the image won't be so blurry I can still see it. It just isn't a $2000 scope.
I bought 2 ep5 and the parallax is crap on both of them. I can only get focus on a 1000 yard target if I set the parallax to 300 yards.
If you have adjusted the ocular for maximum reticle sharpness, your far or near-sightedness does not factor. Objective focus (anti-parallax) serves to bring the target image to be coincident with the reticle plane.
Reading 175 when distance is infinity (practically) is pretty far off. Call Arken - I bet they'll fix or replace it for you.
Remember you eye prescription is different than everyone else. The numbers are not always going to line up with the numbers on the parallax.
At the range, when I adjust my parallax to where it's perfectly in focus, the distance numbers on the dial pretty much match the actual distances to my targets. The problem I've noticed with mine though, is that even though the scope is perfectly in focus, there is still a detectable amount of parallax error. At 50 yards at max magnification, the reticle shifts about 1/4" to 1/3" on the target when I move my eye within the eyebox. I can't adjust the parallax much because the scope will then become out of focus. Kind of disappointing.
I just mounted/sighted my first Arken, EP5 last night. My parallax dial was at 200 when it looked best when I was shooting at 100 yards. Not an issue though.
In my opinion, as long as I can focus correctly with the parallax, it is good to go. The numbers don’t mean anything. You are trying to adjust the scope to your eye, so if your vision isn’t perfect, the numbers probably won’t match. Not an issue at all. However, of it really that bothersome to you, Arken will check, repair, or replace the scope for you.
Usually numerical markings on a parallax knob are for reference, not ranging. But I’m curious what your setting is when you try to free parallax at 100 or 200 yards? Can yours go low enough?
Mines a little off,I just deal with it.there’s been many people talk of this.