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SCOPE SIDEWHEELS
Q Is it worth fitting a sidewheel to my scope? I mainly use my rifle for plinking, but I do go hunting from time to time and think that fitting my gun with the sidewheel might give me a bit of an advantage.
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MIKE MORTON
A AS WITH most things in life, not much comes for free, and while a sidewheel offers advantages, these are countered by a number of disadvantages, so it's ultimately up to you to examine all the factors and decide whether the pros outweigh the cons.
On the plus side, there's little doubt that a sidewheel provides a massive boost to fidelity when a shooter is adjusting parallax. Sidewheels, and their cut-down shark's fin-style equivalents, are often used by Field Target shooters as a precise means of ranging a target due to this boost in fidelity.
When the target image snaps into view, the distance can be read off from the scale round the edge of the wheel. Some distance scales are
