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Rifle Scope Product Details
Leupold Dual Dovetail Winchester XPR Two-Piece Matte Bases
LEUPOLD DUAL DOVETAIL WINCHESTER XPR TWO-PIECE MATTE BASES These Leupold bases are designed specifically to withstand the heaviest recoil. They provide a rock steady mounting point for your scope rings. Dual Dovetail Bases accept all Leupold rotary dovetail rings. Leupold’s trademarked Dual Dovetail system provides a classic low-profile mount for scopes on a variety of popular actions. All Leupold optics offer performance that makes them equally at home in hunting or tactical environments, thanks to their outstanding accuracy, legendary ruggedness, and absolute waterproof integrity. RELENTLESS PERFORMANCE STARTS HERE! Leupold offers an unrivaled selection of rings, mounts, and bases. Yet for every rifle and scope combination, there is one ideal mounting solution. Your mounting system is the crucial link between your firearm and your optic, and it’s where accuracy and performance start. Leupold mounts are to last a lifetime.
Rifle Scope Product Features
Provides a classic, low-profile mount for scopes on a variety of popular actions
Rugged for use with the hardest recoiling firearms
Dovetail connections at both front and rear provide an unfailing mounting platform
Forged and machined steel construction
Fits Winchester XPR
Leupold Brand
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Leupold Mounting Systems
Standard Mount Bases
Leupold Standard mounts are precision engineered to meet the demands of even the most advanced hunters. High precision helps you make the most of your scope’s and rifle’s accuracy and machined steel construction ensures this quality will last.
Your mounting system is the crucial link between your firearm and your optic, and it’s where accuracy and performance start. For Leupold’s steel mounts, it all begins with red-hot, Strike Forged steel blanks. This is what it takes to ensure rock-solid repeatable accuracy, shot after shot, year after year. Each base is meticulously machined and polished.
Leupold Dual Dovetail Two-Piece Savage 10,110 Round Receiver Matte Black Base Leupold Quick Release Two-Piece Weaver Winchester 70 Matte Black Base Leupold Dual Dovetail Winchester XPR Two-Piece Matte Base
Construction Type Two-Piece Two-Piece Two-Piece
Material Forged and machined steel construction Forged and machined steel construction Forged and machined steel construction
Fits Savage 10,110 Weaver Winchester 70 Winchester XPR
About the Leupold Scope Maker
Leupold is a premium company for firearm scopes, optics, mounts, and other components used for guns like rifles and long guns. They style and build their scopes and related products working with materials which are long lasting and durable. This includes the Leupold Dual Dovetail Winchester XPR Two-Piece Matte Bases by Leupold. For additional shooting items, visit their site.
Info About Glass
Rifle scopes enable you to specifically align a rifle at different targets by aligning your eye with the target at range. They do this through magnifying the target by employing a series of lenses within the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adapted to take into account separate ecological considerations like wind speed and elevation decreases to account for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to help shooters understand precisely where the bullet will land based on the sight picture you are viewing with the optic as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended point of impact. The majority of modern-day rifle scopes have about eleven parts which are found internally and outside of the optic. These optic pieces include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage and elevation turrets, focus rings, and other elements. See all eleven parts of a rifle scope.
The Varieties of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. The type of focal plane a scope has establishes where the reticle or crosshair lies in connection with the scopes magnifying adjustments. It actually means the reticle is behind or ahead of the magnification lens of the scope. Selecting the most effective form of rifle scope depends upon what kind of hunting or shooting you plan on undertaking.
First Focal Plane Scopes
Focal plane scopes (FFP) include the reticle in front of the zoom lens. These types of scopes are useful for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance types of shooting
- Shooting situations where estimations are small
- Experienced shooters who understand their target “hold over” plus “lead” correlations for their weapon
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is enlarged and takes up more visual sight area than a SFP reticle
Info About Second Focal Plane Glass
Second focal plane optics (SFP) come with the reticle behind the magnification lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” 100 yard tick measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick measurement.
- Long distance forms of shooting where shooters have extra time to make ballistic estimations
- Shooting where most of the shots take place within shorter distances and ranges
- Shooters who choose a clearer optic sight picture with less room taken up by the enlarged FFP reticle
Zoom for Rifle Glass
The quantity of magnification a scope offers is determined by the diameter, density, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The magnification of the scope is the “power” of the scope.
Info About Fixed Single Power Lens Rifle Optics
A single power rifle scope comes with a magnification number designator like 4×32. This means the zoom power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this type of optic can not adjust given that it is a set power scope.
Variable Power Lens Scope Info
Variable power rifle scopes have adjustable power. These types of scopes will note the magnification amount in a configuration such as 2-10×32. These numbers suggest the zoom of the scope can be set in between 2x and 10x power. This always incorporates the powers in-between 2 and 10. The power adaptation is achieved by making use of the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell piece.
Optic Power Level and Range Correlation
Here are some recommended scope powers and the ranges where they could be effectively used. High power rifle scope glass will not be as efficient as lower powered glass considering too much magnification can be a negative aspect depending on your shooting distance. The same idea relates to extended distances where the shooter needs to have adequate power to see where to best aim the rifle.
Details on Lens Coatings
All modern-day rifle scope lenses are coated. There are different types and qualities of finishings. When looking at luxury rifle targeting setups, Lens finish can be a crucial component of defining the capability of the rifle. The lenses are among the most crucial parts of the scope considering they are what your eye sees through while sighting a rifle in on the target. The finish on the lenses safeguards the lens exterior as well as helps with anti glare from excess sunlight and color visibility.
About Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some optic suppliers will also use “HD” or high-def lense coatings that take advantage of various procedures, rare earth compounds, aspects, and polarizations to extract a wide range of colors and viewable target definition through the lens. This high-def coating is typically used with higher density glass which brings down light’s potential to refract by means of the lens glass. Some scope producers use “HD” to describe “ED” suggesting extra-low dispersion glass. ED handles how colors are presented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic aberration which is also called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration may be noticeable around objects with hard shapes as light hits the object from certain angles.
Rifle Optic Lens Single Finish Versus Multi-Coating
Different optic lenses can likewise have different coatings applied to them. All lenses normally have at least some type of treatment or finish applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic.
This lens treatment can protect the lens from scratches while decreasing glare and other less beneficial things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the scope. The quality of a single covered lens depends on the scope manufacturer and how much you paid for it.
Some scope makers also make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are layered or “multi” covered. This indicates the lens has numerous treatments applied to the surfaces of the glass. If a lens gets several treatments, it can indicate that a manufacturer is taking numerous steps to fight different natural elements like an anti-glare covering, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion finish, followed by a hydrophilic finish. This also does not necessarily indicate the multi-coated lens will perform better than a single coated lens. Being “better” is dependent on the maker’s lens treatment solutions and the quality of materials used in constructing the rifle scope.
Hydrophobic Lens Coverings
Water on a lens doesn’t assist with maintaining a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Lots of top of the line and military grade optic makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic covering.
Choices for Installing Rifle Optics on Long Guns
Mounting approaches for scopes can be found in a couple of options. There are the standard scope rings which are separately installed to the scope and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These various kinds of mounts also usually are made in quick release variations which use throw levers which enable rifle operators to rapidly mount and remove the optics.
Optic Mounting Solutions with Hex Key Rings
Standard, clamp style mounting scope rings use hex head screws to position to the flattop style Picatinny scope mount rails on the tops of rifles. These forms of scope mounts use double individual rings to support the optic, and are normally made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum or similar materials which are designed for far away precision shooting. This form of scope mount is exceptional for rifles which are in need of a resilient, unfailing mount which will not change despite how much the scope is moved about or abuse the rifle takes. These are the style of mounts you really want to have for a devoted optics setup on a long distance hunting or competitors long gun that will almost never need to be modified or adjusted. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can additionally be used on the scope mount’s screws to stop the hex screw threads from backing out after they are mounted tightly in place. An example of these rings are the 30mm type from the Vortex Optics company. The set usually costs around $200 USD
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Optic Ring Mounting Solutions
These kinds of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to rapidly attach and remove a scope from a rifle. If they all use a similar style mount, a number of scopes can also be switched out. The quick detach design is CNC crafted from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers fasten tightly to a flat top style Picatinny rail. This lets the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, taken off of the rifle, and remounted while preserving the original sighting settings. These types of mounts are useful and handy for shooting platforms which are carried a lot, to take off the scope glass from the rifle for protection, or for scopes which are adopted in between numerous rifles. An example of this mount type is the 30mm mount from Vortex Optics. It typically costs around $250 USD
Rifle Optic Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle glass can spoil a day on the range and your pricey optic by causing fogging and developing residue inside of the scope tube. Many optics protect against humidity from going into the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant. Usually, these water-resistant scopes can be immersed under 20 or 30 feet of water before the water pressure can force moisture past the O-rings. This should be ample moisture content prevention for standard use rifles, unless you plan on taking your rifle aboard watercrafts and are worried about the scope still working if it goes overboard and you can still recover the gun.
Glass Gas Purging
Another element of preventing the accumulation of wetness inside of the rifle scope tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Considering that this area is currently occupied by the gas, the scope is less altered by condition shifts and pressure differences from the external environment which could possibly allow water vapor to leak in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to seek out.
