[blackrazor]

What's the point of having a fast focusing eye piece on a rifle scope; leupold offers this on some of their models, and most european high end models sport this feature. How is this an advantage over a ring locking eye piece? I fail to see why you would constantly need to keep changing the focus of the reticle, especially on a scope with a front or side focus (i.e. parralax) adjustment. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[Black Snowman]

For hunting or combat it would be to get the best possible sight picture as quickly as possible so that you don't miss a good shot. For target shooting there really wouldn't be much point.

[blackrazor]

Black Snowman,

Thanks for the reply, but as for what you said... well, I would tend to think that the fast focus would actually be the worst for combat and the best for target shooting. The eyepiece's only function is to adjust the reticle focus for the nearsightedness/farsightedness of your eye, and that doesn't change from day to day. So, if you are in combat, wouldn't you want to be able to "lock in" the eyepiece to keep it from going out of focus accidentally? Once you've focused it to your eye, there should never be a reason to change it again, unless, of course, you are constantly letting other people shoot your rifle. Thanks again.