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Rifle Scope Product Details
ZEISS Conquest V4 3-12×44 with Plex Style #20 Riflescope 522961-9920-000
The Conquest V4 models are backed by the ZEISS Limited Lifetime Transferable Warranty and Five-Year No-Fault Policy. These riflescopes serve a wide range of hunting and shooting applications, are packed with unique features, perform beyond expectations in their price range and provide exceptional value.
Proven 4x Zoom The magnification range of 4x-16x provides a high level of versatility across a wide array of applications.
External Elevation Turret Easy to manipulate, positive, tactile and highly repeatable turret, with Ballistic Stop and large range of adjustment, provides the shooter with maximum flexibility needed for challenging targets, no matter how far down range.
Optical Performance Higher definition glass, enhanced with T* light transmission coatings and LotuTec protective lens coating (all in a 30mm main tube), produces 90% to-the-eye light transmission, great low-light performance and excellent target resolution across the entire magnification range. When combined, these features and benefits create a best-in-class experience.
Generous Eyebox The friendly and forgiving eyebox, coupled with abundant eye relief and the wide field of view, affords the shooter fast and full target acquisition, which helps to enable swift and accurate shot placement.
Designed and Engineered in Germany Absolute reliability: the mechanical systems stand the test of harsh recoil, extreme temperatures and abusive field conditions.
Second Focal Plane Reticle Options In addition to the Z-Plex #20 reticle, ZEISS also offers the ZBR-1 for this model, which features fine line subtensions with 1 MOA graduations, to ensure minimum target coverage and maximum target visibility. Both reticle options are non-illuminated.
Reticle: Z-PLEX and ZBR-1
Rifle Scope Product Features
About the Zeiss Brand
Zeiss is a premium supplier for rifle scopes, optics, mounts, and other add-ons used for guns like rifles and long guns. They create and manufacture their scopes, mounts, and related products by making the most of materials which are long lasting and durable. This includes the ZEISS Conquest V4 3-12×44 with Plex Style #20 Riflescope 522961-9920-000 by Zeiss. For additional shooting items, visit their site.
About Optics
Rifle scopes enable you to specifically aim a rifle at various targets by lining up your eye with the target over a distance. They accomplish this through magnification by using a series of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s alignment can be dialed in for the consideration of different ecological considerations like wind speed and elevation 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 optic as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. Many modern-day rifle optics have around eleven parts which are found inside and on the exterior of the optic. These parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, elevation dials or turrets, objective focus rings, and other parts. Learn about the eleven parts of rifle scopes.
Rifle Glass Styles
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Going for the optimal type of rifle glass is based around what type of shooting you plan to do.
Info About First Focal Plane Glass
First focal plane glass (FFP) include the reticle in front of the magnification lens. This induces the reticle to increase in size based upon the extent of zoom being used. The benefit is that the reticle measurements are the same at the enhanced range as they are at the non amplified distance. One tick on a mil-dot reticle at one hundred yards with no “zoom” is still the same tick at one hundred yards by using 5x “zoom”. These types of scopes are valuable for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance types of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where estimations are minimal
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their target “hold over” and “lead” ratios for their rifles
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is enlarged and takes up more visual sight room than a SFP reticle
About Second Focal Plane Glass
Second focal plane optics (SFP) come with the reticle behind 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.
- Far away styles of shooting where shooters have additional time to make ballistic computations
- Shooting where most of the shots take place within much shorter proximities and ranges
- Shooters who would like a clearer optic picture without space used up by the bigger FFP reticle
Magnification for Optics
The measure of scope zoom you need on your optic depends on the style of shooting you wish to do. Practically every kind of rifle glass offers some amount of zoom. The quantity of zoom a scope delivers is established by the size, thickness, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The magnifying level of the optic is the “power” of the glass. This signifies what the shooter is looking at through the scope is amplified times the power factor of what can generally be seen by human eyes.
Info About Fixed Single Power Lens Glass
A single power rifle scope 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 magnification of this kind of optic can not fluctuate given that it is a set power scope.
Variable Power Lens Optic Info
Variable power rifle scopes can be changed between magnification increments. These types of scopes will list the zoom degree in a configuration such as 2-10×32. These numbers mean the zoom of the scope could be adjusted between 2x and 10x power. This also utilizes the power levels in-between 2 and 10. The power modification is accomplished by applying the power ring component of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
Rifle Scope Power Level and Ranges
Here are some advised scope power settings and the distances where they can be effectively used. Consider that high power scopes will not be as practical as lower magnification level optics since increased zoom can be a negative thing in certain situations. The same idea applies to extended ranges where the shooter needs to have enough power to see exactly where to properly aim the rifle.
About Lens Finishes
All contemporary rifle scope and optic lenses are layered. There are different types and qualities of finishes. Lens finishing is a crucial element of a rifle when considering high end rifle optics and targeting systems. The lenses are among the most vital components of the glass since they are what your eye sees through while sighting a rifle in on the target. The finishing on the lenses protects the lens surface and even helps with anti glare from excess daylight and color profiles.
Info on Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some scope producers likewise use “HD” or high-definition lens coatings which use different techniques, chemicals, aspects, and polarizations to draw out separate colors and viewable definition through the lens. Some scope makers use “HD” to refer to “ED” indicating extra-low dispersion glass.
What to Know About Single Covering Versus Multi-Coating
Different optic lenses can also have various coverings applied to them. All lenses generally have at least some type of treatment or covering applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic. This is due to the fact that 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 the lens will be optimally usable in lots of kinds of environments, degrees of sunlight (full VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
Single coated lenses have a treatment applied to them which is normally a protective and enhancing multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can shield the lens from scratches while lowering glare and other less advantageous things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the scope. The quality of a single covered lens depends upon the scope manufacturer and how much money you spent on it. Both are indicators of the lens quality.
Some scope producers also make it a point to define if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” coated. Being “much better” depends on the producer’s lens treatment technology and the quality of materials used in constructing the rifle scope.
Anti-water Rifle Scope Lens Covering
Water on a lens does not help with preserving a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Numerous top of the line and military grade optic companies will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic anti-water covering.
Options for Installing Optics on Long Guns
Mounting approaches for scopes can be found in a couple of choices. There are the basic scope rings which are separately mounted to the optic and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These different types of mounts also generally are made in quick release variations which use toss levers which allow rifle shooters to quickly install and dismount the optics.
Hex Key Rifle Scope Ring Mounts
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 two different rings to support the optic, and are made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which is created for long distance precision shooting. This type of scope install is wonderful for rifles which require a resilient, rock solid mounting solution which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abused.
Quick-Release Cantilever Scope Rings
These kinds of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to rapidly detach a scope from a rifle and reattach it to a different rifle. A wide range of scopes can also be switched out if they all use a complementary style mount. The quick detach mount style is CNC machined from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers attach firmly to a flat top design Picatinny rail. This permits the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, taken off of the rifle, and remounted back on the rifle while retaining the original sighting settings. These kinds of mounts come in handy for rifles which are carried a lot, to take off the scope from the rifle for protection, or for aiming systems which are adopted in between several rifles. An example of this mount type is the 30mm mount designed by the Vortex Optics manufacturer. It generally costs around $250 USD
Rifle Glass Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle optic can wreck a day of shooting and your highly-priced optic by triggering fogging and producing residue within the scope tube. Most scopes protect against humidity from going into the scope tube with a series of sealing O-rings which are water resistant. Usually, 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 sufficient wetness avoidance for standard use rifles for hunting and sporting purposes, unless you anticipate taking your rifle on your motorboat and are worried about the scope still performing if it is submerged in water and you can still rescue the firearm.
Info on Optic Tube 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 space is already taken up by the gas, the optic is less influenced by condition alterations and pressure differences from the external environment which could possibly enable water vapor to seep in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to seek out.
