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Rifle Scope Product Details
STEINER OPTICS 5901 M5Xi 50mm Military Scope ARD Matte Black
Steiner makes trusted optics for life’s defining moments. The successful pursuit and capture of these moments demands the fast and precise detection, location and identification of a distant objective. Whether the objective is wild life, a marine bearing, law enforcement suspect or military combatant, our optics enhance an individual’s most important sense, vision, so that on land or sea “” Nothing Escapes You.
Rifle Scope Product Features
About this item
Country Of Origin: Germany
Product Type: Sporting Goods
Item Package Dimensions: 6.3 L X 7.6 W X 8.9 H (Cm)
Item Package Weight: 0.076 Kilograms
About the STEINER OPTICS Scope Maker
STEINER OPTICS is a premium producer for weapon scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other add-ons used for guns like rifles and long guns. They innovate and build their mounts and related products choosing materials which are long lasting and resilient. This includes the STEINER OPTICS 5901 M5Xi 50mm Military Scope ARD Matte Black by STEINER OPTICS. For additional shooting goods, visit their site.
What You Need to Know About Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes allow you to precisely align a rifle at various targets by aligning your eye with the target at range. They accomplish this through magnifying the target by using a series of lenses within the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adapted to take into account separate environmental elements like wind speed and elevation increases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to understand exactly where the bullet will hit based on the sight picture you are seeing via the optic as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. The majority of contemporary rifle scopes and optics have around eleven parts which are found internally and on the exterior of the scope body. These optic pieces include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage turrets or dials, objective focus rings, and other parts. See all eleven parts of scopes.
The Styles of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Finding the optimal type of rifle scope is based around what type of shooting you plan to do.
Info About First Focal Plane Scopes
First focal plane glass (FFP) feature the reticle before the magnification lens. This induces the reticle to increase in size based upon the extent of zoom being used. The result is that the reticle measurements are the same at the amplified range as they are at the non magnified distance. One tick on a mil-dot reticle at 100 yards without “zoom” is still the same tick at one hundred yards with 5x “zoom”. These types of scopes work for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance kinds of shooting
- Shooting circumstances where estimations are minor
- Experienced shooters who recognize their aim point “hold over” and also “lead” correlations for their firearm
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is enlarged and takes up more visual sight area than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Scopes
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) come with the reticle to the rear of the magnification lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” 100 yard tick would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick measurement.
- Long distance kinds of shooting where shooters have extra time to make ballistic computations
- Shooting where most shots take place within much shorter distances and ranges
- Shooters who like a clearer optic picture without area taken up by the larger size FFP reticle
About Scope Zoom
The quantity of scope magnification you need is based on the style of shooting you plan to do. Almost every type of rifle scope supplies some amount of magnification. The volume of zoom a scope gives is established by the diameter, density, and curvatures of the lens glass within the rifle optic. The magnification of the optic is the “power” of the glass. This means what the shooter is checking out through the scope is amplified times the power aspect of what can normally be seen by human eyes.
Fixed Single Power Lens Rifle Optic Facts
A single power rifle 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 since it is a set power scope.
Adjustable Power Lens Scopes
Variable power rifle scopes use variable power levels. The power change is performed using the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
The Power and Range Correlation of Rifle Scopes
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 glass considering too much magnification can be a bad thing. The same concept applies to longer distances where the shooter needs to have adequate power to see where to properly aim the rifle at the target.
About Lens Coatings
All modern rifle glass lenses are coated. Lens covering can be an important aspect of a rifle’s setup when buying high end rifle optics and scope systems.
Info on Rifle Optic Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some rifle scope suppliers also use “HD” or high-def lense finishes which make the most of various processes, polarizations, components, and chemicals to draw out numerous color ranges and viewable definition through lenses. This high-definition finishing is commonly used with more costly, high density lens glass which reduces light’s opportunity to refract through the lens glass. Some scope brands use “HD” to refer to “ED” suggesting extra-low dispersion glass. ED handles how colors are represented on the chroma spectrum and the chromatic aberration or difference which is also called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration is often visible around objects with well defined shapes as light hits the item from specific angles.
Single Glass Lens Coating Versus Multi-Coating
Various optic lenses can also have different coverings applied to them. All lenses usually have at least some kind of treatment or finish applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic. This is since the lens isn’t just a raw piece of glass. It becomes part of the finely tuned optic. It must have a coating applied to it so that the lens will be optimally functional in numerous kinds of environments, degrees of light (full light VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
This lens treatment can offer protection to 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 producer and how much you paid for it.
Some scope makers also make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are covered or “multi” coated. This means the lens has numerous treatments applied to the surfaces of the glass. If a lens receives multiple treatments, it can show that a manufacturer is taking several actions to combat different natural aspects like an anti-glare covering, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion finish, followed by a hydrophilic covering. This also does not necessarily mean the multi-coated lens will perform much better than a single covered lens. Being “better” depends upon the maker’s lens treatment techniques and the quality of components used in creating the rifle optic.
What to Know About Anti-water Coating
Water on a scope’s lens doesn’t improve keeping a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Lots of top of the line and high-end scope producers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic coating. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a good example of this kind of treatment. It treats the exterior surfaces of the Steiner scope lens so the water particles can not bind to it or create surface tension. The result is that the water beads roll off of the scope to maintain a clear, water free sight picture.
Rifle Glass Installing Alternatives
Installing options for scopes can be found in a few choices. There are the basic scope rings which are separately installed to the scope and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These various kinds of mounts also normally are made in quick release variations which use throw levers which permit rifle shooters to quickly install and dismount the scope.
Glass Mounting Solutions with Hex Key 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 a couple of separate rings to support the optic, and are made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which is developed for long distance precision shooting. This type of scope mount is great for rifles which need a long lasting, sound mount which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abuse the rifle takes.
Rifle Optic Mounting Solutions with Quick-Release Cantilever Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly connect and detach a scope from a rifle. A wide range of scopes can also be switched out if they all use a complementary designed mount. The quick detach design is CNC crafted from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers attach securely to a flat top design Picatinny rail. This enables the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, removed from the rifle, and remounted while retaining the original sighting settings. These kinds of mounts come in beneficial for shooting platforms which are transferred between vehicles a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protection, or for aiming systems which are employed between multiple rifles. An example of this mount type is the 30mm mount from the Vortex Optics brand. It generally costs around $250 USD
Info on Rifle Optic Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Moisture inside your rifle optic can ruin a day of shooting and your highly-priced optic by triggering fogging and developing residue inside of the scope tube. Many optics protect against humidity from entering the optical tube with a series of sealing O-rings which are waterproof. Typically, these scopes can be immersed underneath 20 or 30 feet of water before the water pressure can push moisture past the O-rings. This should be sufficient moisture prevention for common use rifles, unless you plan on taking your rifle aboard watercrafts and are concerned about the scope still working if it goes overboard and you can still recover the rifle.
Scope Gas Purging
Another element of avoiding the accumulation of wetness within the rifle optic tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Since this area is currently occupied by the gas, the optic is less impacted by climate shifts and pressure variations from the outside environment which might potentially permit water vapor to permeate in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to look for.
