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Rifle Scope Product Details
Bushnell Banner Dusk & Dawn Multi-X Reticle Riflescope with 3.3-Inch Eye Relief, 3-9X 40mm
Ask any trophy hunter. They’ll tell you more tags are filled in the low-light hours than any other time. Enter the Bushnell Banner 3-9x 40 Multi-X riflescope, a scope designed to excel in early-morning and late-evening light. Featuring Dusk & Dawn Brightness (DDB) multi-coated lenses for clarity and brightness in low light, you’ll add precious minutes to every hunting day with the Banner Dusk & Dawn series. With one-piece tube design, the Banner Dusk & Dawn line includes a full assortment of specialty scopes for big-game, varmint, .22 rimfire, slug, black powder and turkey hunting.
Rifle Scope Product Features
About this item
Quality optics with stunning HD clarity
100 percentage quality materials used and tested extensively
Beautiful design and durability built to last
Low light rifle scope with 3 to 9x magnification and 40 millimeter objective lens
Dusk & Dawn Brightness (DDB) multicoated lenses for clarity and brightness
Multi X reticle; 1/4 MOA fingertip windage and elevation adjustments
100 percent waterproof/fog proof construction; 3.3 inches of eye relief
Fast focus eyepiece; Measures 12 inches long
3-9x 40mm – Multi-X
Great for rifles, shot guns or muzzle loaders. All around big-game scope.
Banner optics are coated with Bushnell’s proprietary Dusk & Dawn Brightness (DDB) multi-coating process giving you the brightness and clarity you need to fill your tag in those critical first and last minutes of daylight.
Features:
-Dusk & Dawn Brightness (DDB) Coatings.
-Multi-coated optics.
-One-piece tube.
-100% waterproof, fogproof and shockproof.
-Dry-nitrogen filled.
-1/4 M.O.A. fingertip windage and elevation adjustment.
-Fast-focus eyepiece.
About the Bushnell Brand
Bushnell is a premium producer for rifle scopes, optics, mounts, and other components used for guns like rifles and long guns. They style and supply their scopes and related products working with building materials which are long lasting and durable. This includes the Bushnell Banner Dusk & Dawn Multi-X Reticle Riflescope with 3.3-Inch Eye Relief, 3-9X 40mm by Bushnell. For additional shooting goods, visit their website.
What You Need to Know About Rifle Glass
Rifle scopes permit you to specifically align a rifle at various targets by aligning your eye with the target over a distance. They do this through magnification by making use of a series of lenses within the scope. The scope’s alignment can be adjusted for consideration of numerous natural factors like wind and elevation to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to help shooters understand exactly where the bullet will land based upon the sight picture you are seeing with the optic as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended point of impact. A lot of modern rifle scopes and optics have about eleven parts which are arranged within and outside of the scope. These parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, adjustment turrets or dials, objective focus rings, and other parts. See all eleven parts of scopes.
About Rifle Optic Types
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. Opting for the optimal type of rifle optic is based on 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 magnifying lens. This causes the reticle to increase in size based upon the level of zoom being used. The result is that the reticle measurements are the same at the magnified range as they are at the non amplified range. One tick on a mil-dot reticle at 100 yards without “zoom” is still the same tick at 100 yards with 5x “zoom”. These types of scopes are valuable for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance kinds of shooting
- Shooting circumstances where calculations are minimal
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their target “hold over” as well as “lead” correlations for their weapon
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is enlarged and uses up more visual eyesight room than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Glass
Second focal plane optics (SFP) come with the reticle to the rear of the zoom lens. This causes the reticle to stay at the same scale relative to the quantity of magnification being used. The end result is that the reticle measurements evolve based on the zoom used to shoot over longer ranges since the markings represent different increments which vary with the magnification. In the FFP illustration with the SFP optic, the 5x “zoom” 100 yard tick measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick reticle measurement. These sorts of optics are handy for:
- Long distance styles of shooting where shooters have more time to make ballistic estimations
- Shooting where most of the shots take place within shorter ranges and proximities
- Shooters who like a clearer optic sight picture with less area taken up by the larger size FFP reticle
Magnification for Glass
The level of scope magnification you need on your glass is based on the form of shooting you like to do. Practically every kind of rifle glass delivers some degree of zoom. The amount of zoom a scope delivers is determined by the dimension, thickness, and curves of the lens glass inside of the rifle scope. The zoom of the optic is the “power” of the scope. This means what the shooter is looking at through the scope is amplified times the power element of what can typically be seen by human eyes.
Info About Fixed Power Lens Rifle Optics
A single power rifle scope and optic uses a magnification 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 type of optic can not adjust considering that it is a fixed power scope.
Adjustable Power Lens Rifle Optics
Variable power rifle scopes have adjustable power. These types of scopes will note the zoom amount in a configuration such as 2-10×32. These numbers imply the magnification of the scope could be changed in between 2x and 10x power. This also includes the powers in-between 2 and 10. The power adaptation is achieved by working with the power ring component of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
Power and Range
Here are some suggested scope power settings and the ranges where they may be successfully used. Highly magnified glass will not be as useful as lower magnification level scopes given that too much zoom can be a bad thing. The exact same concept goes for extended ranges where the shooter needs to have sufficient power to see precisely where to best aim the rifle.
Rifle Optic Lens Coating
All contemporary rifle scope and optic lenses are covered in special coatings. There are different types and qualities of glass lens finishings. When thinking about high end rifle optics and scope devices, Lens coating can be a very important aspect of defining the capability of the rifle. The glass lenses are one of the most critical parts of the scope given that they are what your eye sees through while sighting a rifle in on the target. The finishing on the lenses protects the lens surface area as well as helps with anti glare from refracted daylight and color recognition.
HD Versus ED Lenses
Some rifle scope suppliers also use “HD” or high-def lense finishes that take advantage of different procedures, polarizations, rare earth compounds, and aspects to enhance separate colors and viewable target visibility through lenses. This HD finish is commonly used with more costly high density lens glass which brings down light’s potential to refract by means of the lens glass. Some scope corporations use “HD” to describe “ED” suggesting extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how colors are presented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic aberration which is also called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration is often noticeable around objects with hard shapes as light hits the item from specific angles.
Single Coating Versus Multi-Coating for Rifle Scopes
Various optic lenses can likewise have different finishes used to them. All lenses generally have at least some type of treatment or finish applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic.
This lens treatment can protect 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 layered lens depends on the scope maker 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” coated. This suggests the lens has multiple treatments applied to the surfaces. If a lens gets numerous treatments, it can prove that a company is taking several steps to combat different natural elements like an anti-glare coating, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion coating, followed by a hydrophilic finish. This also does not always suggest the multi-coated lens is much better than a single covered lens. Being “much better” depends upon the producer’s lens treatment technology and the quality of components used in developing the rifle optic.
What to Know About Anti-water Finish
Water on a scope’s lens doesn’t support retaining a clear sight picture through an optic at all. Numerous top of the line and high-end optic manufacturers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic covering. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a fine example of this sort of treatment. It treats the surface of the Steiner scope lens so the H2O particles can not bind to it or produce surface tension. The result is that the water beads sheet off of the scope to maintain a clear, water free sight picture.
Optic Installing Options
Mounting solutions for scopes come in a couple of options. There are the standard scope rings which are separately installed to the scope and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These various types of mounts also usually are made in quick release versions which use throw levers which allow rifle shooters to rapidly install and remove the scope.
Hex Key Scope Rings
Standard, clamp type mounting scope rings use hex head screws to fix to the flattop design Picatinny scope mount rails on rifles. These varieties of scope mounts use double individual rings to support the optic, and are usually constructed from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are developed for long distance precision shooting. This type of scope mount is exceptional for rifle systems which need to have a long lasting, hard use mount which will not change no matter just how much the scope is moved about or jarring the rifle takes. These are the style of mounts you want for a specialized optics setup on a long distance hunting or sniper competition long gun which will seldom need to be modified or adjusted. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can also be used on the scope mount screws to stop the hex screws from backing out after they are mounted securely in place. An example of these mounting rings are the 30mm type from Vortex Optics. The set typically costs around $200 USD
Rifle Optic 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. Multiple scopes can also be swapped out if they all use a similar design mount. These types of mounts are handy for rifle platforms which are transported a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protection, or for scopes which are used in between numerous rifles or are situationally focused.
Details on Rifle Glass Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle optic can destroy a day of shooting and your costly optic by causing fogging and creating residue inside of the scope tube. Most scopes prevent wetness from going into the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Details on Optic Tube Gas Purging
Another element of avoiding the accumulation of moisture inside of the rifle optic’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Given that this area is currently occupied by the gas, the scope is less influenced by temperature alterations and pressure variations from the outside environment which may possibly allow water vapor to seep in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to seek out.
