Dialing a capped turret Accupoint

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I just picked up a used 3-9x40 with capped turrets and duplex reticle because the price was good. I'm debating whether I want to set it up MPBR or plan to zero at 100 and dial. I haven't actually laid hands on an Accupoint yet so have questions.

Main thing I'm wondering, since I haven't touched the scope yet, is how wonky is it dialing the turrets without staring at them?

Also curious if people dial these repeatedly and they dial reliably and return correctly back to zero over and over.
 
They feel more fragile than my other scopes with turrets made for repeated dialing. I have run mine mainly on a 223 and limit shots to under 300y. Dialing works, but again not something I'd want to do a lot of with them.
 
They feel more fragile than my other scopes with turrets made for repeated dialing. I have run mine mainly on a 223 and limit shots to under 300y. Dialing works, but again not something I'd want to do a lot of with them.

Same. The turrets would suck for dialing.

I wish Trijicon would simply make a FFP Accupoint with a locking elevation turret.
 
I just picked up a used 3-9x40 with capped turrets and duplex reticle because the price was good. I'm debating whether I want to set it up MPBR or plan to zero at 100 and dial. I haven't actually laid hands on an Accupoint yet so have questions.

Main thing I'm wondering, since I haven't touched the scope yet, is how wonky is it dialing the turrets without staring at them?

Also curious if people dial these repeatedly and they dial reliably and return correctly back to zero over and over.
You have to pop the turret up and then dial, then lock it down. There's no zero stop and no way to tell where you are or how much you've dialed. It would be rather easy to go to dial and just completely lose your zero.
 
My 1-6 accupoint has the same internal adjustments as my 3-9 credo did. After you lift it up to adjust its VERY easy to spin, and its also very easy to lift, to the point that it would be very easy to mess up with gloves or cold fingers or a moment of inattention. Ime the adjustments are accurate. The scope eval here found some tracking error, although based on how much travel they tested I strongly believe they were bottoming out the erector. I know folks do it successfully with these scopes. Personally I think it would track ok, but that the turret design makes it a very poor choice for actually dialing in use, i just think this design is SUPER easy to lose your place. My bottom line it’s a great “set it and forget it” scope, but theres far better choices for a capped dialing scope (shv for example).
 
I actually have an SHV on a 6mm ARC AR I just built so that's exactly why I was thinking maybe the Accupoint would work as well. Sounds like a mistake in the making when it matters most though so I'll avoid it.
 
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