Description
Rifle Scope Product Details
ATIBAL Nomad 3-12×44, Black, AT-NMD-31244
At Atibal, we continuously strive to bring you high-quality, high-performance, precision optics at a price you can afford. The NOMAD 3-12×44 is specifically designed for the most discriminating hunters and shooters. The Atibal NOMAD 3-12×44 offers the highest levels of performance and reliability with features such as dual illumination (red and green), side focus, and generous long eye relief. The NOMAD 3-12×44 utilizes a simple uncluttered illuminated V-Plex reticle with a BDC, making the NOMAD ideal for any hunter.
Rifle Scope Product Features
Illuminated green and Red V Plex BDC reticle
10 Brightness Settings (5 for red and 5 for green)
Side focus parallax adjustment
Lockable target turrets for windage and elevation adjustment
Included sun shade
About the Atibal Company
Atibal is a premium manufacturer for long gun scopes, optics, mounts, and other accessories used for guns like rifles and long guns. They create and make their mounts and related products working with materials which are long lasting and durable. This includes the ATIBAL Nomad 3-12×44, Black, AT-NMD-31244 by Atibal. For additional shooting products, visit their site.
Optic Facts
Rifle scopes allow you to specifically align a rifle at different targets by aligning your eye with the target over a distance. They do this through magnifying the target by using a set of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s positioning can be dialed in to account for varied environmental aspects like wind and elevation increases or decreases to account for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to help the shooter understand precisely where the bullet will hit based on the sight picture you are viewing with the optic as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended point of impact. Most modern-day rifle scopes and optics have about 11 parts which are arranged internally and on the exterior of the optic. These scope parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, modification turrets, focus rings, and other parts. Learn about the eleven parts of glass.
The Types of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Selecting the finest type of rifle scope is based around what type of shooting you plan on doing.
About First Focal Plane Glass
First focal plane optics (FFP) come with the reticle in front of the magnifying lens. This triggers the reticle to increase in size based on the extent of magnification being used. The result is that the reticle measurements are the same at the enhanced range as they are at the non magnified distance. One tick on a mil-dot reticle at one hundred yards with no “zoom” is still the very same tick at 100 yards by using 5x “zoom”. These kinds of scopes are useful for:
- Quick acquisition, far away types of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where computations are minor
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their aim point “hold over” and also “lead” equations for their rifles
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is bigger and takes up more visual eyesight area than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Scope Info
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) feature the reticle to the rear of the magnification 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.
- Far away forms of shooting where shooters have extra time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most shots take place within much shorter spaces and ranges
- Shooters who want a clearer optic sight picture without space taken up by the enlarged FFP reticle
Magnification for Rifle Glass
The level of scope zoom you require depends on the sort of shooting you choose to do. Virtually every style of rifle scope supplies some amount of magnification. The level of zoom a scope supplies is identified by the diameter, thickness, and curves of the lenses within the rifle optic. The magnification level of the optic is the “power” of the glass. This signifies what the shooter is checking out through the scope is magnified times the power element of what can generally be seen by human eyes.
Single Power Lens Optics
A single power rifle optic will have a zoom number designator like 4×32. This indicates the zoom power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this kind of scope can not fluctuate since it is set from the factory.
Adjustable Power Lens Glass Facts
Variable power rifle scopes can be tweaked between magnified levels. The power adjustment is performed by making use of the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
Rifle Scope Power and Ranges
Here are some recommended scope power levels and the ranges where they could be successfully used. High power scopes will not be as useful as lower powered scopes considering that too much magnification can be a bad thing. The same idea goes for extended distances where the shooter needs to have increased power to see precisely where to best aim the rifle at the target.
Lens Coating for Rifle Optics
All contemporary rifle scope lenses are covered. Lens coating is a crucial element of a shooting system when purchasing high end rifle optics and scope equipment.
HD Versus ED Lens Coatings
Some rifle scope companies also use “HD” or high-def glass finishings that take advantage of various procedures, components, polarizations, and chemical applications to draw out different colors and viewable target definition through the lens. This high-definition coating is typically used with greater density lens glass which decreases light’s opportunity to refract through the lens glass. Some scope manufacturers use “HD” to describe “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 may be obvious around objects with well defined outlines as light hits the object from various angles.
Single Scope Lens Coating Versus Multi-Coating
Different scope lenses can even have different finishes applied to them. All lenses usually have at least some type of treatment or finish applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic assembly. Due to the fact that the lens isn’t just a raw piece of glass, they require performance enhancing coatings. It is part of the finely tuned optic. It must have a covering applied to it so that it will be efficiently functional in many types of environments, degrees of light (full VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
Single covered lenses have a treatment applied to them which is usually a protective and improving multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can protect the lens from scratches while minimizing glare and other less beneficial things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the optic. The quality of a single coated lens depends on the scope producer and how much money you spent on it. The scope’s maker and cost are signs of the lens quality.
Some scope producers likewise make it a point to define if their optic lenses are covered or “multi” coated. This suggests the lens has had multiple 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 fight different environmental elements like an anti-glare finish, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion finishing, followed by a hydrophilic finishing. This additionally doesn’t necessarily mean the multi-coated lens will perform better than a single covered lens. Being “much better” depends upon the maker’s lens treatment technology and the quality of products used in developing the rifle scope.
Optic Lens Anti-water Covering
Water on a lens doesn’t assist with maintaining a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Many top of the line and military grade scope makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic covering.
Choices for Installing Scopes on Firearms
Mounting solutions for scopes can be found in a few options. There are the standard scope rings which are individually mounted to the optic and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These various types of mounts also usually come in quick release versions which use throw levers which enable rifle operators to rapidly install and remove the scope.
Rifle Optic Mounts with Hex Key Rings
Standard, clamp-on type mounting optic rings use hex head screws to install to the flattop design Picatinny scope mounting rails on the tops of rifles. These kinds of scope mounts use a pair of separate rings to support the optic, and are made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum or similar materials which are developed for far away accuracy shooting. This type of scope mount is effective for rifles which require a long lasting, rock solid mount which will not move despite how much the scope is moved or abuse the rifle takes. These are the type of mounts you want for a devoted scope system on a far away hunting or competition long gun which will almost never need to be changed or adjusted. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can additionally be used on the scope mount screws to keep the hex screw threads from backing out after they are mounted firmly in position. An example of these rings are the 30mm type from Vortex Optics. The set typically costs around $200 USD
Quick-Release Cantilever Optic Ring Mounting Solutions
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly connect and detach a scope from a rifle before reattaching it to a different rifle. Multiple scopes can also be switched out if they all use a compatible design mount. These types of mounts come in handy for rifle platforms which are transferred a lot, to swap out the optic from the rifle for protecting the scope, or for scopes which are used between numerous rifles or are situationally focused.
Details on Rifle Glass Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle scope can mess up a day of shooting and your expensive optic by triggering fogging and developing residue inside of the scope tube. Most scopes prevent moisture from going into the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Details on Rifle Scope Tube Gas Purging
Another part of avoiding the accumulation of moisture within the rifle scope 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 influenced by temp shifts and pressure differences from the outdoor environment which could potentially enable water vapor to permeate in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to look for.
