Description
Rifle Scope Mount Product Details
Leupold DeltaPoint Pro Ring Top Mount Kit
Rifle Scope Mount Product Features
Model #175550 – DeltaPoint Pro Ring Top Mount Kit 30mm Ring Top with a Matte finish
Easily attaches the Delta Point Pro to any Mark 4 Rings or Mark IMS system
Allows you to run the Delta Point Pro up top, or either side at 45 degrees
Made in the USA
About the Leupold Manufacturer
Leupold is a premium manufacturer for rifle scopes, optics, mounts, and other accessories used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They design and supply their scopes, mounts, and related products by choosing building materials which are long lasting and resilient. This includes the Leupold DeltaPoint Pro Ring Top Mount Kit by Leupold. For additional shooting products, visit their website.
Rifle Scope Info
Rifle scopes permit you to exactly align a rifle at various targets by aligning your eye with the target at range. They do this through zoom by using a set of lenses within the scope. The scope’s alignment can be adapted to account for varied environmental things like wind speed and elevation increases or decreases to account for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to help shooters understand exactly where the bullet will land based on the sight picture you are viewing with the scope as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. Most modern-day rifle scopes have around 11 parts which are arranged inside and outside of the optic. These scope parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, elevation dials or turrets, focus rings, and other components. See all eleven parts of a rifle scope.
About Glass Varieties
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Opting for the finest type of rifle glass is based around what type of shooting you plan on doing.
First Focal Plane Scope Details
Focal plane scopes (FFP) come with the reticle in front of the zoom lens. This triggers the reticle to increase in size based on the extent of zoom being used. The outcome is that the reticle measurements are the same at the amplified range as they are at the non magnified range. One tick on a mil-dot reticle at one hundred yards without “zoom” is still the same tick at one hundred yards by using 5x “zoom”. These kinds of scopes work for:
- Quick acquisition, far away types of shooting
- Shooting situations where calculations are very little
- Experienced shooters who understand their target “hold over” plus “lead” relationships for their long guns
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is bigger and uses up more visual sight space than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Optic Facts
Second focal plane optics (SFP) come with the reticle to the rear of the magnification lens. This induces the reticle to remain at the very same dimensions relative to the level of zoom being used. The result is that the reticle dimensions change based upon the magnification employed to shoot over lengthier ranges considering the markings represent various increments which can vary with the zoom level. In the FFP illustration with the SFP glass, the 5x “zoom” 100 yard tick would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick. These particular kinds of scopes work for:
- Long distance kinds of shooting where shooters have increased time to make ballistic estimations
- Shooting where most of the shots take place within shorter ranges and distances
- Shooters who would like a clearer optic sight picture with less area used up by the larger sized FFP reticle
Rifle Optic Magnification
The quantity of zoom a scope offers is figured out by the size, thickness, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The magnification of the scope is the “power” of the scope.
Info on Fixed Power Lens Rifle Optics
A single power rifle optic or scope will have a zoom number designator like 4×32. This suggests the zoom power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this kind of optic can not change given that it is a fixed power scope.
Info on Variable Power Lens Rifle Scopes
Variable power rifle scopes can be modified between magnified settings. The power change is achieved by using the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
Optic Power and Range Correlation
Here are some advised scope power levels and the distances where they could be efficiently used. Highly magnified rifle scope glass will not be as effective as lower magnification optics considering too much magnification can be a bad thing. The very same idea relates to extended distances where the shooter needs increased power to see where to best aim the rifle.
Lens Covering for Rifle Optics
All modern rifle optic and scope lenses are covered in special coatings. There are different types and qualities of lens coverings. Lens finishing is an essential element of a rifle’s setup when thinking of high end rifle optics and targeting equipment. The glass lenses are one of the most important parts 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 covering on the lenses offers protection to the lens surface area and even helps with anti glare capabilities from excess daylight and color profiles.
HD Versus ED Scope Lens Coatings
Some optic suppliers will also use “HD” or high-def lense finishings which employ different processes, chemicals, elements, and polarizations to extract various colors and viewable target definition through lenses. This high-definition coating is frequently used with increased density lens glass which reduces light’s potential to refract through the lens glass. Some scope corporations use “HD” to describe “ED” indicating extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how certain colors are represented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic aberration or deviance which is similarly called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration may be visible over things with hard edges and shapes as light hits the item from certain angles.
Info on Single Covering Versus Multi-Coating
Various optic lenses can also have different finishes used to them. All lenses usually have at least some type of treatment or finish applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic.
Single layered lenses have a treatment applied to them which is normally a protective and boosting multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can protect the lens from scratches while lowering glare and other less advantageous things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the scope. The quality of a single covered lens depends on the scope designer and how much money you paid for it. Both the make and cost are indicators of the lens quality.
Some scope producers likewise make it a point to define if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” covered. This indicates the lens has several treatments applied to them. If a lens receives numerous treatments, it can indicate that a producer is taking several actions to combat different natural factors like an anti-glare finishing, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion finishing, followed by a hydrophilic coating. This additionally doesn’t necessarily mean the multi-coated lens is much better than a single layered lens. Being “better” depends on the maker’s lens treatment innovation and the quality of components used in developing the rifle optic.
Anti-water Optic Lens Finishing
Water on a lens doesn’t help with preserving a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Many top of the line and high-end optic makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic coating.
Options for Installing Optics on Firearms
Installing approaches for scopes can be found in a couple of choices. There are the basic scope rings which are individually mounted to the scope and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These different types of mounts also typically are made in quick release variations which use throw levers which permit rifle operators to rapidly mount and dismount the scope.
Hex Key Glass Ring Mounting Solutions
Standard, clamp type mounting scope rings use hex head screws to position to the flattop style Picatinny scope mounting rails on rifles. These styles of scope mounts use double separate rings to support the optic, and are normally constructed from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are created for far away precision shooting. This form of scope mount is effective for rifles which need a long lasting, rock solid mount which will not shift regardless of how much the scope is moved about or jarring the rifle takes. These are the type of mounts you really want to have for a specialized scope system on a long distance hunting or tournament long gun that will rarely need to be changed or adjusted. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can also be used to prevent the hex screw threads from wiggling out after they are mounted safely in position. An example of these mounting rings are the 30mm style made by the Vortex Optics brand. The set usually costs around $200 USD
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Glass Ring Mounts
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to rapidly attach and detach a scope from a rifle. If they all use a similar style mount, several scopes can often be swapped in the field. The quick detach design is CNC machined from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers attach solidly to a flat top type Picatinny rail. This allows the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, removed from the rifle, and remounted back on the rifle while keeping precision. These types of mounts are useful and convenient for rifles which are transported a lot, to take off the optic from the rifle for protection, or for scopes which are used in between a number of rifles. An example of this mount type is the 30mm mount designed by Vortex Optics. It usually costs around $250 USD
Rifle Glass Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Moisture inside your rifle scope can ruin a day of shooting and your pricey optic by inducing fogging and generating residue inside of the scope’s tube. Most scopes protect against humidity from getting in the optical tube with a series of sealing O-rings which are water resistant. Typically, these water-resistant scopes can be immersed beneath 20 or 30 feet of water before the water pressure can push moisture past the O-rings. This should be more than enough humidity avoidance for common use rifles, unless you plan on taking your rifle boating and are worried about the optic still performing if it falls overboard and you can still rescue the firearm.
Gas Purged Glass Tubes
Another element of preventing the buildup of wetness inside of the rifle scope tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Since this space is already taken up by the gas, the scope is less affected by temp shifts and pressure variations from the outside environment which may possibly allow water vapor to seep in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to seek out.
