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Rifle Scope Product Details
Vortex Optics Strike Eagle Second Focal Plane Riflescopes
Rifle Scope Product Features
About this item
The Strike Eagle 1-6×24 is defined by speed and versatility. Adjust to six power when you need to engage targets at a distance
High quality, fully multi-coated lenses deliver a clear, crisp sight picture and optimal low light performance
The illuminated, glass-etched BDC reticle features 11 illumination settings to accomodate for changing light conditions. An extra battery can bed in the windage cap and easily released
The fast focus dial on the eyepiece ensures that your reticle is always sharp
Waterproof, shockproof, and fogproof ensures reliability in all weather conditions
About the Vortex Optics Scope Maker
Vortex Optics is a premium supplier for long gun scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other accessories used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They style and make their mounts, scopes, and related products by applying building materials which are resilient and long lasting. This includes the Vortex Optics Strike Eagle Second Focal Plane Riflescopes by Vortex Optics. For more shooting items, visit their website.
Info Rifle Glass
Rifle scopes allow you to exactly align a rifle at various targets by lining up your eye with the target at range. They accomplish this through magnifying the target by utilizing a series of lenses within the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adjusted for consideration of different environmental factors like wind and elevation increases or decreases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to help the shooter understand precisely where the bullet will land based on the sight picture you are viewing via the scope as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended point of impact. Many modern-day rifle scopes have about 11 parts which are found internally and outside of the scope. These scope parts consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage dials, focus rings, and other elements. Learn about the eleven parts of rifle glass.
The Varieties of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Picking the finest type of rifle glass is based around what type of shooting you plan on doing.
Info About First Focal Plane Glass
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the zoom lens. These types of scopes are useful for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance types of shooting
- Shooting circumstances where computations are minimal
- Experienced shooters who know their target “hold over” and also “lead” equations for their firearms
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is bigger and occupies more visual eyesight area than a SFP reticle
Info About Second Focal Plane Scopes
Second focal plane optics (SFP) come with the reticle to the rear of the zoom lens. This triggers the reticle to remain at the very same overall size in relation to the amount of zoom being used. The outcome is that the reticle dimensions shift based upon the zoom applied to shoot over greater distances because the markings represent distinct increments which can vary with the zoom level. In the FFP illustration with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick measurement. These types of scopes are useful for:
- Long distance forms of shooting where shooters have more time to make ballistic computations
- Shooting where most of the shots happen within shorter spaces and ranges
- Shooters who want a clearer optic picture with less space used up by the enlarged FFP reticle
Rifle Scope Zoom
The amount of magnification a scope provides is figured out by the size, thickness, 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 Rifle Glass Info
A single power rifle scope and optic comes with 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 zoom of this kind of scope can not fluctuate considering that it is a fixed power optic.
Variable Power Lens Rifle Optics
Variable power rifle scopes use enhanced power. The power change is accomplished by the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
The Power and Range Correlation of Scopes
Here are some suggested scope power levels and the ranges where they may be efficiently used. Bear in mind that high power optics will not be as practical as lower magnification level optics and scopes due to the fact that excessive zoom can be a detractor. The same idea goes for extended ranges where the shooter needs to have adequate power to see exactly where to properly aim the rifle.
Lens Finish for Glass
All state-of-the-art rifle optic lenses are layered. Lens finishing can be a vital aspect of a rifle system when thinking about high end rifle optics and scope setups.
ED Versus HD Rifle Scopes
Some scope producers also use “HD” or high-definition lens finishes which use various methods, chemicals, polarizations, and components to draw out separate colors and viewable definition through the lens. Some scope manufacturers use “HD” to refer to “ED” meaning extra-low dispersion glass.
Details on Single Covering Versus Multi-Coating
Different scope lenses can even have various finishes applied to them. All lenses typically have at least some type of treatment or covering applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic assembly. This is since the lens isn’t just a raw piece of glass. It is part of the carefully tuned optic. It requires a coating to be applied to it so that it will be efficiently functional in numerous kinds of environments, degrees of sunlight (full light VS shade), and other shooting conditions.
This lens treatment can offer protection to the lens from scratches while reducing glare and other less beneficial things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the scope. The quality of a single coated lens depends on the scope producer and how much you paid for it.
Some scope producers likewise make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” covered. This means the lens has had multiple treatments applied to them. If a lens receives several treatments, it can prove that a company is taking several steps to fight various natural aspects like an anti-glare finishing, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion covering, followed by a hydrophilic finish. This also doesn’t always imply the multi-coated lens will perform much better than a single covered lens. Being “much better” depends on the producer’s lens treatment innovation and the quality of glass used in creating the rifle optic.
Anti-water Lens Finishing
Water on a lens does not assist with keeping 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 hydrophobic or hydrophilic anti-water finishing.
Choices for Installing Glass on Long Guns
Installing options for scopes come in a couple of options. There are the basic scope rings which are separately installed to the scope and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These different kinds of mounts also generally can be found in quick release versions which use manual levers which allow rifle shooters to rapidly mount and dismount the glass.
Scope Mounting Solutions with Hex Key Rings
Standard, 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 designed for long range accuracy shooting. This type of scope mount is excellent for rifles which need a long lasting, rock solid mount which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abused.
Scope Mounts with Quick-Release Cantilever Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to rapidly remove a scope and attach it to a different rifle. Numerous scopes can even be switched out if they all use a compatible design mount. These types of mounts come in handy for long guns which are transported a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protecting the scope, or for scopes which are used between several rifles.
Scope Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle optic can mess up a day of shooting and your pricey optic by triggering fogging and producing residue inside of the scope tube. The majority of scopes prevent wetness from going into the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Gas Purged Scope Tubes
Another part of preventing the accumulation of moisture within the rifle optic tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Given that this area is currently taken up by the gas, the scope is less altered by temp changes and pressure differences from the outside environment which may possibly permit 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.
