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Rifle Scope Product Details
Hammers Elite PCP Air Rifle Scope 5-15x42AO with Adjustable Objective and Circle Cross Reticle
Hammers Elite 5-15X42AO is a top quality rifle scope built with multi-coated fine optics for use with precision PCP air rifles. It is great for use in the field and for shooting moving targets. Very unique and attractive styling really makes the scope stand out among the others. The turret screw caps, power wheel and adjustable objective are ornamented with soft rubber inlays for easier grip. It also has a custom wire reicle which has a circle center for quick alignment on moving targets and has multiple points to make up for bullet drop and side wind. Adjustable objective end fine tunes the focus and correct parallex for pin point shooting. 1inch one piece mono block main tube. Finger adjustable turret screws.
Turret Click Value: 1/4MOA
Eye relief: 3.46″@5x; 3.23″@15x
Fied of View: 26.3-9.5ft@100yards
Length: 14inch
Weight: 1lb5oz
Rifle Scope Product Features
A top quality scope great for use with precision PCP air rifles
Circle and cross reticle is easy to align with moving targets and has various reference point to make up for bullet drop and side wind
Adjustable objective for precise focus at all yardages from 10yards and out
Easy to grip AO ring, power zoom ring and turret screw caps with rubber inlays
Consistent eye relief when magnification power is zoomed
About the Hammers Brand
Hammers is a premium company for firearm scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other components used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They style and supply their mounts and related products making the most of elements which are long lasting and resilient. This includes the Hammers Elite PCP Air Rifle Scope 5-15x42AO with Adjustable Objective and Circle Cross Reticle by Hammers. For more shooting products, visit their site.
What You Need to Know About Glass
Rifle scopes permit you to exactly aim a rifle at various targets by lining up your eye with the target at range. They do this through magnifying the target using a set of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s alignment can be dialed in for consideration of various ecological factors like wind and elevation increases to account for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to understand exactly where the bullet will land based upon the sight picture you are viewing via the scope as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. A lot of modern-day rifle optics have about 11 parts which are located inside and externally on the optic. These parts consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, modification turrets or dials, objective focus rings, and other elements. Learn about the eleven parts of rifle scopes.
The Styles of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” style of scopes. The type of focal plane a scope has identifies where the reticle or crosshair lies relative to the optic’s magnification. It simply means the reticle is located behind or before the magnification lens of the optic. Looking for the most desired kind of rifle glass depends on what kind of hunting or shooting you plan on undertaking.
First Focal Plane Glass Facts
Focal plane scopes (FFP) include the reticle in front of the zoom lens. These styles of scopes are useful for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance types of shooting
- Shooting situations where estimations are minimal
- Experienced shooters who understand their aim point “hold over” and also “lead” correlations for their long guns
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is bigger and takes up more visual sight space than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Optic Info
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) include the reticle to the rear of the zoom lens. This causes the reticle to remain at the same dimensions in connection with the volume of magnification being used. The end result is that the reticle dimensions evolve based upon the magnification used to shoot over greater distances since the reticle measurements represent distinct increments which differ with the magnification level. In the FFP example with the SFP glass, the 5x “zoom” 100 yard tick measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick. These particular styles of optics are useful for:
- Far away forms of shooting where shooters have more time to make ballistic computations
- Shooting where most shots occur within much shorter spaces and ranges
- Shooters who desire a clearer optic picture with less space taken up by the enlarged FFP reticle
Ins and Outs of Glass Zoom
The amount of magnification a scope offers is determined by the size, density, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The magnification of the scope is the “power” of the scope.
Fixed Single Power Lens Optics
A single power rifle scope uses a magnification number designator like 4×32. This indicates the magnification power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this kind of optic can not fluctuate since it is a fixed power scope.
About Variable Power Lens Optics
Variable power rifle scopes can be tweaked between magnified settings. The power change is accomplished 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 recommended scope power levels and the ranges where they can be efficiently used. High power optics will not be as useful as lower magnification glass due to the fact that too much magnification can be a bad thing. The exact same idea relates to extended ranges where the shooter needs to have increased power to see exactly where to best aim the rifle at the target.
Info on Lens Covering
All contemporary rifle optic and scope lenses are covered in special coatings. There are various types and qualities of lens finishes. Lens finishing can be an important aspect of a rifle’s setup when considering high end rifle optics and targeting equipment. The lenses are among the most significant pieces of the scope given that they are what your eye sees through while sighting a rifle in on the target. The finish on the lenses offers protection to the lens exterior and even helps with anti glare capabilities from refracted direct sunlight and color recognition.
HD Versus ED Rifle Scope Lens Coatings
Some rifle glass makers also use “HD” or high-def lense coatings that take advantage of various processes, chemicals, elements, and polarizations to enhance different colors and viewable target visibility through the lens. This high-definition finishing is often used with higher density lens glass which lowers light’s ability to refract by means of the lens glass. Some scope vendors use “HD” to describe “ED” indicating extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how certain colors are represented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic deviance or aberration which is also called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration is often visible over items with well defined outlines as light hits the object from certain angles.
Single Covering Versus Multi-Coating for Rifle Glass
Different optic lenses can likewise have various finishes applied to them. All lenses typically have at least some type of treatment or finishing used to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic.
Single covered lenses have a treatment applied to them which is generally a protective and improving multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can preserve the lens from scratches while reducing glare and other less useful things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the scope. The quality of a single covered lens depends on the scope designer and the amount you spent on it. Both the make and cost are indications of the lens quality.
Some scope producers also make it a point to define if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” covered. This means the lens has had numerous treatments applied to the surfaces of the glass. If a lens gets numerous treatments, it can prove that a company is taking several steps to fight different environmental aspects like an anti-glare covering, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion coating, followed by a hydrophilic finishing. This also does not always indicate the multi-coated lens is better than a single coated lens. Being “much better” depends upon the maker’s lens treatment technology and the quality of products used in constructing the rifle scope.
Anti-water Lens Finishes
Water on a lens does not assist with retaining a clear sight picture through an optic whatsoever. Many top of the line and premium optic producers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic coating. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a good example of this sort of treatment. It deals with the exterior of the Steiner scope lens so the water particles can not bind to it or create surface tension. The outcome is that the water beads sheet off of the scope to maintain a clear, water free sight picture.
Glass Installation Choices
Mounting solutions for scopes come in a couple of options. There are the standard scope rings which are separately mounted to the optic and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These different types of mounts also normally are made in quick release versions which use toss levers which allow rifle operators to rapidly mount and remove the optics.
Hex Key Rifle Glass 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 two different rings to support the optic, and are often made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which is designed for long distance accuracy shooting. This type of scope install is great for rifles which require a long lasting, sound mounting solution which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abuse the rifle takes.
Rifle Glass Mounts with Quick-Release Cantilever Rings
These kinds of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly connect and take off a scope from a rifle. If they all use a similar design mount, several scopes can often be swapped out on the range. The quick detach mount style is CNC machined from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers connect tightly to a flat top style Picatinny rail. This enables the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, removed from the rifle, and remounted back on the rifle while keeping accuracy. These kinds of mounts are useful and convenient for shooting platforms which are carried a lot, to remove the glass from the rifle for protection, or for sight systems which are adopted in between multiple rifles. An example of this mount type is the 30mm mount from Vortex Optics. It generally costs around $250 USD
Optic Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Moisture inside your rifle scope can mess up a day of shooting and your pricey optic by causing fogging and developing residue inside of the scope tube. The majority of scopes avoid moisture from entering the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Scope Gas Purging
Another component of avoiding the accumulation of moisture inside of the rifle optic tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Given that this space is already occupied by the gas, the glass is less influenced by temperature shifts and pressure differences from the outdoor environment which may possibly allow water vapor to leak in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to seek out.
