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Rifle Scope Product Details
Hi-Lux Optics Buck Country Series 3-9x40mm Riflescope with Duplex Reticle, Matte Black
Product Description
Are you looking for a reliable, no-nonsense, frill-free variable riflescope for a hard-working deer and other big game center-fire rifle Take a look at the Buck Country models by Hi-Lux Optics. Many experienced hunters who have switched to one of these scopes often proclaim it to be “The Best” moderately priced scope on the market today. Hi-Lux Optics builds the Buck Country models with many of the same top-quality features found on our own scopes costing two or three times the reasonable retail of the models in this series. Features include the reliable Tri-Center spring tension on the internal erector tube, to insure positive 1/4″ click windage and elevation adjustment – and that the adjustment holds through thousands of rounds, until you are ready to change it. Every air surface of every lens of these scopes are fully multi-coated to insure the highest degree of light transmission, while the photographic quality of the precision ground glass lenses insure a crisp and clear target image. The fast focus eyepiece quickly adjusts to individual shooter eyesight. These are 1-inch diameter tube scopes, built with a rigid one-piece aluminum tube. The 3-9x models feature the popular 40mm front objective lens, allowing the scope to be mounted low on a rifle. The 1.5-6x scope comes with a slightly larger 42mm objective lens that gathers just a bit more light, making the model ideal for those hunts that take you into the dark woods at dawn or dusk.
From the Manufacturer
Are you looking for a reliable, no-nonsense, frill-free variable riflescope for a hard-working deer and other big game center-fire rifle Take a look at the Buck Country models by Hi-Lux Optics. Many experienced hunters who have switched to one of these scopes often proclaim it to be “The Best” moderately priced scope on the market today. Hi-Lux Optics builds the Buck Country models with many of the same top-quality features found on our own scopes costing two or three times the reasonable retail of the models in this series. Features include the reliable Tri-Center spring tension on the internal erector tube, to insure positive 1/4″ click windage and elevation adjustment – and that the adjustment holds through thousands of rounds, until you are ready to change it. Every air surface of every lens of these scopes are fully multi-coated to insure the highest degree of light transmission, while the photographic quality of the precision ground glass lenses insure a crisp and clear target image. The fast focus eyepiece quickly adjusts to individual shooter eyesight. These are 1-inch diameter tube scopes, built with a rigid one-piece aluminum tube. The 3-9x models feature the popular 40mm front objective lens, allowing the scope to be mounted low on a rifle. The 1.5-6x scope comes with a slightly larger 42mm objective lens that gathers just a bit more light, making the model ideal for those hunts that take you into the dark woods at dawn or dusk.
Rifle Scope Product Features
All-around hunting scope for serious deer hunters rugged and durable for all hunting conditions
Solid 1 piece 1″ tube construction with enlarged erector tube housing limited lifetime warranty
Magnification 3-9x
Fully multi-coated lenses water-proof shock proof fog proof
Duplex reticle
About the Hi-Lux Optics Scope Maker
Hi-Lux Optics is a premium supplier for firearm scopes, optics, mounts, and other add-ons used for guns like rifles and long guns. They innovate and make their scopes and related products by using materials which are long lasting and resilient. This includes the Hi-Lux Optics Buck Country Series 3-9x40mm Riflescope with Duplex Reticle, Matte Black by Hi-Lux Optics. For additional shooting items, visit their website.
What You Need to Know About Scopes
Rifle scopes enable you to precisely align a rifle at different targets by aligning your eye with the target over a distance. They do this through magnifying the target by utilizing a series of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s alignment can be adjusted to take into account many natural considerations like wind speed and elevation increases to account for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to help the shooter understand precisely where the bullet will hit based upon the sight picture you are viewing via the optic as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended point of impact. Most modern-day rifle optics have around eleven parts which are found within and outside of the scope. These scope parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, elevation dials or turrets, objective focus rings, and other elements. Learn about the eleven parts of optics.
Rifle Scope Varieties
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. Choosing the perfect type of rifle scope is based around what type of shooting you plan on doing.
Info on First Focal Plane Optics
Focal plane scopes (FFP) include the reticle in front of the zoom lens. These types of scopes are beneficial for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance types of shooting
- Shooting situations where computations are low
- Experienced shooters who recognize their target “hold over” and also “lead” equations for their long guns
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is bigger and requires more visual sight space than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Optic Details
Second focal plane optics (SFP) include the reticle behind the zoom lens. This causes the reticle to stay at the very same dimensions relative to the quantity of zoom being used. The final result is that the reticle dimensions change based on the zoom chosen to shoot over greater ranges since the reticle markings represent distinct increments which can vary with the zoom level. In the FFP illustration with the SFP optic, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick measurement. These varieties of glass are useful for:
- Far away styles of shooting where shooters have extra time to make ballistic computations
- Shooting where most shots occur within shorter spaces and ranges
- Shooters who want a clearer optic sight picture with less space used up by the bigger FFP reticle
Zoom for Rifle Optics
The measure of scope zoom you require depends upon the sort of shooting you want to do. Practically every style of rifle glass provides some level of magnification. The amount of zoom a scope gives is identified by the size, thickness, and curvatures of the lenses within the rifle optic. The magnifying level of the scope is the “power” of the scope. This denotes what the shooter is looking at through the scope is amplified times the power factor of what can generally be seen by human eyes.
Single Power Lens Rifle Scopes
A single power rifle scope or optic will have a zoom number designator like 4×32. This indicates the zoom power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this kind of scope can not change because it is a set power scope.
Info on Variable Power Lens Rifle Optics
Variable power rifle scopes have adjustable power. It will list the magnification level in a configuration such as 2-10×32. These numbers mean the zoom of the scope can be changed between 2x and 10x power. This also utilizes the power levels in-between 2 and 10. The power modification is achieved by making use of the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
Power Levels and Range
Here are some suggested scope power settings and the distances where they may be successfully used. High power optics will not be as efficient as lower powered optics given that too much magnification can be a bad thing. The same goes for longer ranges where the shooter needs to have enough power to see where to best aim the rifle.
Info on Glass Lens Finishes
All modern-day rifle scope lenses are coated. There are different types and qualities of glass finishes. When thinking about luxury rifle optical systems, Lens coating can be a critical component of a rifle. The glass lenses are one of the most significant pieces of the optic due to the fact that they are what your eye looks through while sighting a rifle in on the point of impact. The coating on the lenses safeguards the lens exterior and also helps with anti glare capabilities from excess sunshine and color recognition.
Info on Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some rifle glass makers will also use “HD” or high-def glass finishings which make the most of various procedures, polarizations, chemicals, and aspects to draw out separate colors and viewable definition through lenses. This high-definition covering is normally used with higher density glass which drops light’s ability to refract by means of the lens glass. Some scope brands use “HD” to describe “ED” signifying extra-low dispersion glass. ED handles how colors are presented on the chroma spectrum and the chromatic aberration or difference which is also called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration can be visible over items with hard shapes as light hits the object from certain angles.
Single Optic Lens Coating Versus Multi-Coating
Various optic lenses can also have various finishes applied to them. All lenses normally have at least some kind of treatment or finish applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic. This is due to the fact that the lens isn’t just a raw piece of glass. It becomes part of the carefully tuned optic. It requires a coating to be applied to it so that it will be efficiently functional in many kinds of environments, degrees of light (full light VS shade), and other shooting conditions.
This lens treatment can protect the lens from scratches while reducing glare and other less helpful things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the scope. The quality of a single layered lens depends on the scope producer and how much you paid for it.
Some scope makers similarly make it a point to define if their optic lenses are covered or “multi” coated. Being “better” depends on the producer’s lens treatment technology and the quality of products used in developing the rifle scope.
Glass Lens Anti-water Covering
Water on a scope’s lens doesn’t improve maintaining a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Numerous top of the line or premium optic producers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic coating. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a good example of this kind of treatment. It treats the surface area of the Steiner optic lens so the H2O molecules can not bind to it or develop surface tension. The outcome is that the water beads move off of the scope to maintain a clear, water free sight picture.
Choices for Installing Optics on Long Guns
Installing solutions for scopes come in a few options. There are the standard scope rings which are separately mounted to the optic and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These various kinds of mounts also generally are made in quick release variations which use manual levers which enable rifle operators to quickly mount and remove the scopes.
Hex Key Rifle Glass Rings
Normal, clamp design mounting scope rings use hex head screws to mount to the flattop style Picatinny scope installation rails on rifles. These types of scope mounts use two separate rings to support the optic, and are made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which is developed for long distance accuracy shooting. This type of scope install is excellent for rifles which need a durable, sound mounting solution which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abused.
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Glass Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to rapidly remove a scope from a rifle and reattach it to a different rifle. If they all use a similar design mount, several scopes can also be switched out on the range. The quick detach design is CNC crafted from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers connect solidly to a flat top style Picatinny rail. This lets the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, removed from the rifle, and remounted back on the rifle while maintaining accuracy. These types of mounts are useful and convenient for rifles which are transferred between vehicles a lot, to remove the scope glass from the rifle for protection, or for sight systems which are chosen for use in between multiple rifles. An example of this mount style is the 30mm mount designed by the Vortex Optics manufacturer. It usually costs around $250 USD
Sealing and Gas Purging for Rifle Glass Tubes
Moisture inside your rifle scope can mess up a day of shooting and your expensive optic by causing fogging and developing residue inside of the scope tube. Most scopes prevent wetness from going into the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Scope Gas Purging
Another part of avoiding the buildup of moisture inside of the rifle optic tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Because this area is already occupied by the gas, the scope is less affected by temperature shifts and pressure distinctions from the outside environment which might potentially allow water vapor to permeate in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to look for.
