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Rifle Scope Cover Product Details
Trijicon ACOG Scopecoat Fitted For 5.5 X 50 Acog Scope Models
This Scopecoat covers the 5.5x ACOG scope. The Scopecoat is constructed of the highest quality neoprene Laminated with nylon. Its simple design safeguards the scope or sighting system from dings and scratches, dust, dirt, and moisture. Neoprene has a 5% moisture absorbency which takes moisture (condensation and sweating) away from the scope or sight and helps protect it from rust & corrosion. The nylon Shields against the elements. Simply stretch both ends over your scope or sight. The recommended fit is either “relaxed same length” or slightly stretched.
Rifle Scope Cover Product Features
Country Of Origin: United States
Product Type: Sporting Goods
Item Package Dimensions: 16.51 L X 10.16 W X 5.588 H (Cm)
Item Package Weight: 0.05 Pounds
About the Trijicon Manufacturer
Trijicon is a premium manufacturer for firearm scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other add-ons used for guns like rifles and long guns. They create and build their scopes, mounts, and related products using elements which are durable and long lasting. This includes the Trijicon ACOG Scopecoat Fitted For 5.5 X 50 Acog Scope Models by Trijicon. For more shooting items, visit their site.
Facts About Glass
Rifle scopes enable you to specifically aim a rifle at various targets by lining up your eye with the target over a range. They accomplish this through zoom by utilizing a series of lenses within the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adapted to account for numerous natural aspects like wind speed 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 with the scope as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended point of impact. Most modern-day rifle scopes have around eleven parts which are arranged inside and externally on the scope. These scope parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, modification dials or turrets, focus rings, and other components. Learn about the eleven parts of optics.
Rifle Optic Types
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” kind of scopes. The style of focal plane a scope has identifies where the reticle or crosshair lies in relation to the scopes magnification. It literally implies the reticle is situated behind or before the magnifying lens of the scope. Picking out the most effective style of rifle scope is dependent on what form of shooting or hunting you anticipate undertaking.
First Focal Plane Scopes
First focal plane scopes (FFP) come with the reticle in front of the zoom lens. This causes the reticle to increase in size based upon the level of zoom being used. The outcome is that the reticle measurements are the same at the enhanced distance as they are at the non magnified range. As an example, one tick on a mil-dot reticle at one hundred yards without “zoom” is still the same tick at 100 yards using 5x “zoom”. These kinds of scopes are beneficial for:
- Quick acquisition, far away types of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where computations are very little
- Experienced shooters who recognize their aim point “hold over” as well as “lead” relationships for their weapon
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is enlarged and takes up more visual sight area than a SFP reticle
About Second Focal Plane Optics
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) come with the reticle behind the zoom lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick measurement.
- Long distance styles of shooting where shooters have additional time to make ballistic computations
- Shooting where most shots happen within shorter ranges and distances
- Shooters who would like a clearer optic picture with less space used up by the larger size FFP reticle
Rifle Optic Magnification
The level of scope zoom you need on your optic depends upon the style of shooting you plan to do. Pretty much every kind of rifle scope offers some amount of magnification. The quantity of magnification a scope supplies is identified by the size, density, and curves of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The magnification of the optic is the “power” of the opic. This signifies what the shooter is observing through the scope is amplified times the power factor of what can normally be seen by human eyes.
About Single Power Lens Optics
A single power rifle optic uses a magnification number designator like 4×32. This means the magnification power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this type of optic can not adjust considering that it is a fixed power optic.
Variable Power Lens Rifle Glass Facts
Variable power rifle scopes can be adjusted between magnification levels. It will list the magnification degree in a configuration like 2-10×32. These numbers imply the magnification of the scope could be changed between 2x and 10x power. This also includes the power levels in-between 2 and 10. The power manipulation is achieved by making use of the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
Rifle Glass Power Level and Range Correlation
Here are some advised scope power levels and the ranges where they can be efficiently used. High power optics will not be as efficient as lower magnification level scopes because too much magnification can be a negative aspect depending on your shooting distance. The exact same idea relates to longer distances where the shooter needs to have adequate power to see precisely where to best aim the rifle at the target.
Info on Scope Lens Finishes
All top teir rifle scope lenses are layered. Lens covering can be an important element of a shooting platform when looking at high end rifle optics and scope setups.
HD Versus ED Lenses
Some scope makers likewise use “HD” or high-definition lens finishes which use various procedures, polarizations, aspects, and chemicals to draw out a wide range of colors and viewable definition through the lens. Some scope manufacturers use “HD” to refer to “ED” implying extra-low dispersion glass.
Single Rifle Scope Lens Covering Versus Multi-Coating
Various optic lenses can even have various finishes applied to them. All lenses generally have at least some type of treatment or coating applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic assembly. Because the lens isn’t simply a raw piece of glass, they require performance enhancing coatings. It becomes part of the carefully tuned optic. It requires a coating to be applied to it so that it will be optimally functional in numerous kinds of environments, degrees of light (full VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
Single coated lenses have a treatment applied to them which is generally a protective and enhancing multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can shield the lens from scratches while lowering glare and other less helpful things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the optic. The quality of a single covered lens depends upon the scope company and how much you spent on it. Both are indicators of the lens quality.
Some scope manufacturers similarly make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are covered or “multi” coated. Being “much better” depends on the manufacturer’s lens treatment innovation and the quality of materials used in developing the rifle scope.
Hydrophobic Lens Coverings
Water on a lens does not assist with keeping a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Lots of top of the line and military grade scope makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic covering which is water repellent.
Options for Mounting Rifle Scopes on Long Guns
Mounting solutions for scopes can be found in a few options. There are the standard scope rings which are individually mounted to the scope and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These various kinds of mounts also generally are made in quick release versions which use toss levers which enable rifle shooters to rapidly mount and dismount the scopes.
Hex Key Rifle Scope Rings
Normal, clamp style mounting scope rings use hex head screws to mount to the flattop style Picatinny scope mount rails on rifles. These types of scope mounts use a couple of different rings to support the optic, and are often made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are developed for long range precision shooting. This type of scope mount is excellent for rifles which need a durable, rock solid mount which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abused.
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Optic Rings
These kinds of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly take off a scope from a rifle and reattach it to a different rifle. If they all use a similar style mount, multiple scopes can also be swapped out. The quick detach mount style is CNC machined from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers fasten firmly to a flat top type Picatinny rail. This allows the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, taken off of the rifle, and remounted while maintaining the original sighting settings. These types of mounts are useful and handy for shooting platforms which are hauled around a lot, to take off the scope glass from the rifle for protection, or for optics which are used between multiple rifles. An example of this mount type is the 30mm mount from the Vortex Optics manufacturer. It typically costs around $250 USD
Sealing and Gas Purging for Rifle Glass Tubes
Moisture inside your rifle glass can spoil a day of shooting and your costly optic by triggering fogging and creating residue inside of the scope tube. Most scopes prevent moisture from getting in the scope tube with a series of sealing O-rings which are waterproof. Normally, these water-resistant optics can be immersed beneath 20 or 30 feet of water before the water pressure can push moisture past the O-rings. This should be plenty of wetness avoidance for common use rifles for hunting and sporting purposes, unless you intend on taking your rifle sailing and are worried about the scope still working if it falls overboard and you can still salvage the firearm.
Glass Gas Purging
Another element of avoiding the buildup of wetness inside of the rifle optic tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Because this area is already taken up by the gas, the glass is less affected by temperature level alterations and pressure distinctions from the outside environment which could possibly enable 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.
