Non crossbow scopes

[Sloppy Does]

I noticed that many of you use scopes that are for rifles instead of xbow's. Just wondering if any of you have had any issues with them? If I decide to go that route is there anything that I should be aware of? I currently have the twilight dlx, am I missing out?

[Ibex]

I tried my Leupold 1.5x5 20 mm Heavy Duplex and it worked great, with no parallax issues. However I did switch to a 3x Vortex ( no longer available) which I liked alot more mainly because it was shorter (I did not have to move my head back ) and it has a wonderful low intensity lighted reticule. I personally like very short lightweight scopes for crossbows.

[wabi]

I use a Leupold shotgun scope on my Phoenix and parallax is not a problem. It is very small at crossbow ranges and would probably be less than 1" if I took time to measure it. With reasonably constant head (eye) positioning I have Robin Hooded arrows at 25 yards when I was too lazy to pull the first one from the target before I shot the second arrow.

[flightattendant100]

Parallax is not a problem on lower power scopes. None of the major manufacturers use an adjustable parallax until at least 9x., and most are higher than that. ( there is NO parallax at 1x) Most of these scopes are of the lower power spectrum. It is so small that it is pretty much a non-issue for hunting. jmho

[Boo]

In whitetail hunting ranges parallax is not a problem.
Flightattendent spelled it out well. Parallax will exist in rifle scopes used in bow ranges. The effect is small but magnified by scope magnification however, the magnification that we use is small enough that the effect can be considered insignificant and measured in single digit millimeters.
But there is some reading that you might be interested seeing that you brought up the question.
http://www.6mmbr.com/parallax.html
http://www.longrangehunting.com/article ... llax-2.php