Description
Rifle Scope Product Details
Schmidt Bender Zenith 2.5-10×56 FD7 Rifle Scope
The Zenith line from Schmidt & Bender is a universal, award winning line of riflescopes that offers something for everyone. With a wide field of view, the smaller magnifications make it easier for quick shots on fleeting game. The large magnification range allows the hunter to make accurate shots at long distances for rather small targets. Zenith riflescopes are a versatile group that are both aesthetically pleasing and completely functional for whatever hunters may demand. Schmidt & Bender is a name you can trust to deliver quality and reliable scopes.
Item Condition: New
Scope Weight: 23.64 oz
Scope Length: 330mm/13″
Magnification Range: 2.5-10x
Scope Objective Diameter: 56mm
Scope Tube Size / Mount: 30mm
Turret Adjustment (Click Value): 1 cm
Elevation Turret Details: Posicon
Windage Turret Details: Posicon
Parallax Adjustment: 100m Fixed
Reticle Position: First Focal Plane
Reticle Details: FD7 Reticle
Field of View: 3.8 – 14.2’m/100moryd/100yd
Eye Relief: 90mm/3.54″
Twilight Factor: 7.1 – 23.6
Light Transmission 90%
Illuminated Reticle: yes
Scope Finish: Matte Black
Scope Turret Rotation: Clockwise (CW)
UPC: 191992017760
MPN: 772-811-707
Rifle Scope Product Features
2.5-10x zoom magnification; 56mm objective lens; index-matched anti-reflection fully multicoated optics; 3.8 – 14.2’m/100moryd/100yd wide field of view
FD7 Illuminated First Focal Plane ranging reticle
30mm one-piece aluminum main-tube; corrosion and scratch-resistant matte black anodized finish
Equipped with Posicon function, which makes it easier for the shooter when adjusting the reticle
Nitrogen-filled, fog and waterproof
About the Schmidt & Bender Brand
Schmidt & Bender is a premium maker for weapon scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other accessories used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They style and manufacture their scopes, mounts, and related products by applying elements which are long lasting and resilient. This includes the Schmidt Bender Zenith 2.5-10×56 FD7 Rifle Scope by Schmidt & Bender. For additional shooting items, visit their website.
Information About Optics
Rifle scopes enable you to precisely aim a rifle at different targets by aligning your eye with the target at range. They do this through magnifying the target by utilizing a set of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adapted to take into account varied ecological elements like wind and elevation increases or decreases to account for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to help the shooter understand exactly where the bullet will land based upon the sight picture you are viewing using the optic as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. Many modern rifle optics have about 11 parts which are found inside and outside of the optic. These parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage turrets or dials, focus rings, and other parts. Learn about the eleven parts of rifle optics.
Rifle Glass Types
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. Picking the best type of rifle glass depends on what type of shooting you plan to do.
First Focal Plane Glass Details
Focal plane scopes (FFP) include the reticle in front of the magnification lens. These styles of scopes are beneficial for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance kinds of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where estimations are marginal
- Experienced shooters who recognize their target “hold over” and “lead” relationships for their rifles
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is bigger and takes up more visual sight space than a SFP reticle
Info About Second Focal Plane Optics
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) include the reticle to the rear of the zoom lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick.
- Far away kinds of shooting where shooters have increased time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most of the shots take place within much shorter spaces and ranges
- Shooters who would like a clearer optic picture without room taken up by the enlarged FFP reticle
Rifle Scope Zoom
The quantity of zoom a scope supplies is determined by the size, density, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The zoom of the scope is the “power” of the scope.
Fixed Single Power Lens Optic Info
A single power rifle optic uses a zoom number designator like 4×32. This suggests the zoom power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this kind of optic can not adjust considering that it is a fixed power optic.
Adjustable Power Lens Rifle Optic Details
Variable power rifle scopes can be modified between magnified settings. The power modification is accomplished using the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
The Power Level and Range of Rifle Scopes
Here are some advised scope power settings and the ranges where they may be effectively used. High power optics will not be as useful as lower magnification scopes since too much zoom can be a bad thing. The very same idea relates to longer ranges where the shooter needs to have sufficient power to see where to properly aim the rifle.
Scope Lens Covering
All modern rifle scope and optic lenses are covered in special coatings. There are different types and qualities of lens coatings. Lens finishing can be an important element of a rifle when looking at high-end rifle optics and scope equipment. The glass lenses are among the most critical pieces of the glass considering that they are what your eye looks through while sighting a rifle in on the point of impact. The finishing on the lenses shields the lens surface as well as helps with anti glare capabilities from refracted sunlight and color recognition.
Details on Scope Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some scope makers likewise use “HD” or high-definition lens coverings which use various procedures, polarizations, chemicals, and components to draw out various colors and viewable quality through the lens. Some scope producers use “HD” to refer to “ED” meaning extra-low dispersion glass.
Single Optic Lens Finishing Versus Multi-Coating
Various optic lenses can even have different coverings applied to them. All lenses normally have at least some kind of treatment or coating applied to them before being used in a rifle scope or optic. Due to the fact that the lens isn’t simply a raw piece of glass, they require performance enhancing coatings. It becomes part of the finely tuned optic. It must have a covering placed on it so that the lens will be efficiently usable in many types of environments, degrees of sunlight (full light VS shade), and other shooting conditions.
This lens treatment can protect the lens from scratches while minimizing glare and other less beneficial 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 manufacturers also make it a point to define if their optic lenses are layered or “multi” covered. This suggests the lens has multiple treatments applied to the surfaces of the glass. If a lens receives multiple treatments, it can indicate that a company is taking several actions to combat various environmental elements like an anti-glare covering, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion finish, followed by a hydrophilic finishing. This also doesn’t always imply the multi-coated lens will perform much better than a single layered lens. Being “better” hinges on the manufacturer’s lens treatment technology and the quality of glass used in building the rifle glass.
Anti-water Lens Coating
Water on a lens does not help with preserving a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Many top of the line and high-end scope companies will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic finishing.
Scope Installing Options
Installing solutions for scopes come in a couple of options. There are the basic scope rings which are individually installed to the scope and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These different types of mounts also typically can be found in quick release versions which use throw levers which allow rifle operators to quickly mount and remove the scopes.
Hex Key Scope Rings
Basic, clamp-on type mounting scope rings use hex head screws to position to the flattop style Picatinny scope mounting rails on rifles. These types of scope mounts use a pair of separate 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 type of scope mount is ideal for rifle systems which need to have a long lasting, hard use mount which will not shift no matter just how much the scope is moved or jarring the rifle takes. These are the design of mounts you want for a specialized optics system on a far away scouting or sniper competition long gun which will seldom need to be altered or recalibrated. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can also be used to stop the hex screw threads from backing out after they are installed firmly in position. An example of these mounting rings are the 30mm type from Vortex Optics. The set normally costs around $200 USD
Quick-Release Cantilever Scope Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to rapidly take off a scope and attach it to a different rifle. Multiple scopes can also be swapped out if they all use a compatible design mount. These types of mounts are handy for rifles which are transferred a lot, to swap out the optic from the rifle for protecting the scope, or for scopes which are used in between multiple rifles.
Info on Optic Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle optic can ruin a day of shooting and your pricey optic by triggering fogging and producing residue inside of the scope tube. A lot of scopes avoid moisture from going into the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are waterproof.
Gas Purged Optic Tubes
Another part of preventing the accumulation of moisture within the rifle scope tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Given that this space is currently taken up by the gas, the scope is less impacted by temp alterations and pressure distinctions from the outdoor environment which might potentially allow water vapor to leak 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.
