SWFA 3-9 question - no parallax adjustment, issue or no?

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For those of you who have experience with the SWFA 3-9X42, have you found that the lack of a parallax adjustment is an issue or not?

I am contemplating picking one up to put on my shorty Encore. It is an Encore with a 17" 7-08 barrel on it. With my current load of Varget under a 120 grain NBT, it is good to right at 500 yards. As all of the other rifles that I shoot past 300 yards all have parallax adjustments and I dial it right after I dial for elevation, so I can't say that I have had an issue with parallax since I started shooting longer ranges.
My gut tells me that I should be fine, but I am also starting to shoot from "field positions" more and that leads to not being "perfectly behind" the gun at times.

Anyway, just looking for input one way or another.
 
you’re fine. The Swfa lack of parallax hasn’t ever cost me an animal. Just takes some extra a Even with scopes with adjustable parallax, when hunting I set it normally to 300 and don’t think about it again.

Solid scope for any rifle
 
Just put one on my dad’s gun an upgrade to the Cabela’s pine ridge scope I had upgraded from a Weaver when the gun went wacky years ago.
I’m not a good shooter, but I have 2” steel at 100 yards, 4” 200 yards, and 6” at 300 and 400 yards. I’m hitting it all and I’m not good, building poor positions with a Harris bipod and Caldwell front bag. Sweet dead simple scope I am totally satisfied with it. Got it on a 20 inch barrel gun with a 6 inch silencer so the scope hangs down and gets bumped against the door as the silencer end digs into the floor when it’s in the front seat. I can’t knock that gun off.
 
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