User Manual

rifle can suggest a good quality brand and specific pellet. Use the tin to get used to
shooting your rifle, especially if it is spring powered. You need to get very used to shooting
off a rest. I have a fairly complicated media filled rest and a spring powered rifle that has
been difficult to learn to shoot reliably from a rest. Once you are confident in your ability
to shoot off a rest take a bunch of sheets of paper approximately 4x5 inches and put a dot
in the center (precision at this is unnecessary). Label each with the particular pellet name,
brand and weight and fire your 5 pellets at it at some convenient distance. (As I am
interested in bench rest shooting I use as close to 25 meters as I can get in my back yard.)
Choose as windless a day as you can get for this procedure. Smallest group of holes wins. I
actually use machinist’s calipers to measure the outside distance of the two holes that are
farthest apart and subtract the diameter of the pellet. That gives me the center-to-center
dimension of my pattern. It is worth doing this bit of arithmetic because all the reading
you do on line will refer to pattern sizes with this measurement because it removes the
confusing factor of which diameter pellet you used for the test. (That makes it possible to
directly compare a .177 grouping with a .22 grouping.)
Using Your AEON Scope
Your AEON scope is equipped with a Side focus wheel which helps with parallax. Parallax
comes into play because the line of sight through scope is offset from the line of the barrel.
To correct this problem, the designers made a focus mechanism and optical element that
can be used to alleviate the situation. By rotating the side focus wheel and bringing the
target into sharp focus you can read off the distance to the target which is a very useful
thing to know. When you finally have your scope sighted in you actually have a range of
elevation values for the various distances. You probably noticed that at some distance (say
25 yards) you actually had the elevation knob at its lowest point. At say 10 yards you
actually had to raise or use UP elevation to hit the black aiming dot! This was due to
parallax. Beyond our supposed minimum elevation reading at say 25 yards you again will
have to add more up elevation to keep hitting the target dot. This is not due to as much to
parallax but more to pellet drop. (Please note that if you are using a firearm the distances
will be vastly different from my examples but the same principals apply.) The most
practical way to use the side wheel focusing feature you need to have the large wheel and
find some opaque (preferably white in color) sticky backed tape that you can put on the
smooth part of the wheel. While the focuser does not rotate a full 360 degrees this tape
should also go completely around the wheel. Set your rifle on a sturdy rest and do not
move it throughout the following. Get a long measuring tape and a target with printing on
it. Start with the wheel in the shortest focus position and move the target out till it just
comes into focus and measure the distance from the end of your barrel or the front of the
scope. It probably doesn’t matter which but be consistent with the measuring point. From
here on you are going to be writing on the tape you put on the wheel so you need to locate
a place on the scope that you can remember in the future that when the, say, 20 yard line
on the wheel lines up that point you are actually 20 yards from the target. If your first