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Rifle Scope Cover Product Details
Sportsman’s Outdoor Products Horn Hunter Snapshot Rifle Scope Cover (Large)
It does not get any easier than the Snap Shot. Cover remains on the scope and out of the way. Protect your scope, get the shot, go home happy.
Rifle Scope Cover Product Features
About this item
Slip covers up and out of the way
Provides padded scope protection
End caps reinforced to protect lenses
Cover remains on scope at all times
Easy installation
About the Sportsman’s Outdoor Products Scope Maker
Sportsman’s Outdoor Products is a premium supplier for firearm scopes, optics, mounts, and other add-ons used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They innovate and manufacture their scopes, mounts, and related products working with materials which are long lasting and durable. This includes the Sportsman’s Outdoor Products Horn Hunter Snapshot Rifle Scope Cover (Large) by Sportsman’s Outdoor Products. For additional shooting items, visit their website.
What You Need to Know About Optics
Rifle scopes permit you to specifically aim a rifle at different targets by lining up your eye with the target at range. They do this through magnification by making use of a set of lenses within the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adjusted to take into account various natural considerations like wind and elevation decreases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to help the shooter understand exactly where the bullet will land based on the sight picture you are seeing using the scope as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. Many contemporary rifle scopes have around eleven parts which are arranged within and externally on the optic. These scope parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, modification dials or turrets, focus rings, and other elements. See all eleven parts of optics.
About Optic Varieties
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. The form of focal plane a scope has decides where the reticle or crosshair lies in connection with the scopes magnifying adjustments. It simply means the reticle is behind or before the magnifying lens of the optic. Picking out the most effective sort of rifle optic depends upon what style of hunting or shooting you anticipate undertaking.
Info on First Focal Plane Scopes
Focal plane scopes (FFP) include the reticle in front of the magnification lens. These styles of scopes are beneficial for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance types of shooting
- Shooting situations where calculations are small
- Experienced shooters who recognize their aim point “hold over” as well as “lead” relationships for their firearms
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is bigger and occupies more visual sight area than a SFP reticle
Info About Second Focal Plane Scopes
Second focal plane optics (SFP) feature the reticle behind the zoom lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick reticle measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick.
- Long distance styles of shooting where shooters have additional time to make ballistic estimations
- Shooting where most shots occur within much shorter spaces and ranges
- Shooters who desire a clearer optic picture without room used up by the larger size FFP reticle
Zoom for Optics
The quantity of scope zoom you need on your optic depends upon the sort of shooting you desire to do. Pretty much every type of rifle optic gives some amount of zoom. The quantity of magnification a scope gives is determined by the size, thickness, and curves of the lens glass within the rifle scope. The magnification level of the scope is the “power” of the glass. This denotes what the shooter is aiming at through the scope is magnified times the power aspect of what can generally be seen by human eyes.
Info on Single Power Lens Optics
A single power rifle optic or scope will have a zoom number designator like 4×32. This means the magnification power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this kind of optic can not adjust since it is fixed.
Variable Power Lens Rifle Scopes
Variable power rifle scopes use enhanced power. The power modification is performed using the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
Power and Range Correlations
Here are some recommended scope powers and the distances where they may be efficiently used. Highly magnified rifle scope glass will not be as efficient as lower magnification rifle scope glass given that too much magnification can be a negative aspect depending on your shooting distance. The very same idea applies to extended ranges where the shooter needs increased power to see exactly where to properly aim the rifle.
Lens Coating for Scopes
All modern rifle scope lenses are layered. There are various types and qualities of coverings. Lens finishing can be an essential element of a rifle’s setup when thinking of high end rifle optics and scope units. The lenses are among the most important pieces of the optic considering that they are what your eye looks through while sighting a rifle in on the point of impact. The coating on the lenses offers protection to the lens surface and improves anti glare capabilities from refracted light and color presence.
HD Versus ED Lens Coatings
Some scope brands likewise use “HD” or high-definition lens finishings which use different processes, polarizations, chemicals, and components to draw out a wide range of colors and viewable quality through the lens. Some scope manufacturers use “HD” to refer to “ED” implying extra-low dispersion glass.
Single Coating Versus Multi-Coating
Various optic lenses can also have different finishes applied to them. All lenses usually have at least some type of treatment or finish used to them before being used in a rifle scope or optic.
This lens treatment can offer protection to the lens from scratches while decreasing glare and other less useful 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 producers likewise make it a point to define if their optic lenses are layered or “multi” covered. This implies the lens has had numerous treatments applied to the surfaces of the glass. If a lens gets multiple treatments, it can show that a company is taking numerous steps to combat different environmental factors like an anti-glare coating, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion finish, followed by a hydrophilic coating. This also does not always mean the multi-coated lens will perform better than a single covered lens. Being “much better” depends on the maker’s lens treatment techniques and the quality of glass used in building the rifle optic.
What to Know About Hydrophobic Finish
Water on a lens doesn’t help with retaining a clear sight picture through a scope in any way. Lots of top of the line and high-end optic manufacturers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic finish. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a good example of this type of treatment. It treats the exterior of the Steiner glass lens so the H2O particles can not bind to it or create surface tension. The outcome is that the water beads sheet off of the scope to keep a clear, water free sight picture.
Choices for Mounting Glass on Firearms
Installing solutions for scopes come in a couple of choices. There are the basic scope rings which are separately installed to the optic and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These different types of mounts also normally come in quick release variations which use throw levers which permit rifle operators to rapidly mount and dismount the scope.
Hex Key Rifle Scope Rings
Basic, clamp-on design mounting optic rings use hex head screws to install to the flattop design Picatinny scope mounting rails on rifles. These forms of scope mounts use double separate rings to support the scope, and are usually constructed from 7075 T6 billet aluminum or similar materials which are created for long distance accuracy shooting. This type of scope mount is effective for rifle systems which are in need of a durable, rock solid mount which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or jarring the rifle takes. These are the design of mounts you want for a dedicated optics system on a far away scouting or sniper competition rifle that will hardly ever need to be changed or recalibrated. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can additionally be used to stop the hex screws from wiggling out after they are mounted firmly in place. An example of these mounting rings are the 30mm type from Vortex Optics. The set generally costs around $200 USD
Quick-Release Cantilever Scope Rings
These kinds of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to rapidly attach and detach a scope from a rifle. Several scopes can also be swapped out if they all use a complementary designed mount. The quick detach mount style is CNC machined from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers connect tightly to a flat top type Picatinny rail. This enables the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, taken off of the rifle, and remounted while retaining the original sighting settings. These types of mounts come in convenient for shooting platforms which are moved a lot, to remove the scope glass from the rifle for protection, or for aiming systems which are used between several rifles. An example of this mount type is the 30mm mount from Vortex Optics. It normally costs around $250 USD
Scope Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle scope can ruin a day of shooting and your expensive optic by resulting in fogging and developing residue within the scope’s tube. A lot of optics prevent wetness from entering the scope tube with a series of sealing O-rings which are waterproof. Typically, these optics can be submerged within 20 or 30 feet of water before the water pressure can force moisture past the O-rings. This should be sufficient wetness avoidance for conventional use rifles, unless you intend on taking your rifle aboard a watercraft and are concerned about the scope still performing if it goes over the side and you can still rescue the firearm.
Details on Glass Tube Gas Purging
Another part of preventing the accumulation of wetness within the rifle scope’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Considering that this space is currently taken up by the gas, the optic is less altered by temp changes and pressure distinctions from the outside environment which might possibly allow water vapor to leak in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to seek out.
