Hmm. What is a ghost click. I watched a youtube video titled "ghost click" with no explanation and didn't see much.
It did seem like the click was louder every other click. As long as every click moves the reticle I don't care.
I was zeroing one this weekend and took this pic just to document the knob setting, but it turned out to be a pretty cool photo.
Don
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Ghost clicks are lash in the mechanism.
Shows up more in less expensive scopes.
Basically ghost clicks are you dial up 5 moa but it only goes up 3. Or it can be even worse when you reverse turret dirrection and it takes several clicks before you get positive movement of the reticle.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Wf0Cuwwi8
Growing up my dad taught me how to do a simple tracking test. After a rough zero We placed a large piece of 1" graph paper at 50 yards with a 1" aiming dot in the middle.
Then 2 shots on center, adjust the turret 10 min or so or 80% of the max adjustment ( my dad always believed running the adjustments to the extremes was not good)
So while holding on the aim point you adjust 10min up shoot , 10min left shoot , 10 min down shoot, 10 min down again shoot , 10 min right shoot 10 min right again shoot, 10 min up shoot , 10 min up shoot again , 10 min left shoot , 10 min down should bring you back to center. Should leave shots 5" apart all nice and square as long as you/ gun and ammo can shoot well enough.
Short version is shot on center , adjust up and left 10 min shoot , adjust 20 down and right 20, up 10, down 20 left 20, up 10 right 10
You should end up with 6 shots.
1 center then 4 in the corners and last shot in center. Again if you cant hold a min of 1" at 5 0 yards your only going to see errors in the scope if they are bad.
So if you can fall with in 1" of what your scope is suposed to do your doing well.
The old scopes or scopes turrets that are capped are generally ment to be zeroed for PBR and leave it alone. Then get to know your reticle and how to use it. The old school 30/30 reticles had a lot of ways to judge distance and hold over.
Have fun and try as many scopes as you can