Description
Rifle Scope Product Details
KTAIS Vector Optics Tactical Adjustable 4X Magnifier fit for Red Dot Sight with Flip to Side Mount Shooting Accessories (Color : Black)
Color:Black
Type: RIFLE
Function: Lens
Rifle Scope Product Features
1. Crystal clear, 4 times power, suitable for various red dot mirrors
2. With 30mm flip side braid mount, diopter compensation
About the KTAIS Brand
KTAIS is a premium company for rifle scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other accessories used for guns like rifles and long guns. They design and manufacture their mounts, scopes, and related products making the most of elements which are long lasting and resilient. This includes the KTAIS Vector Optics Tactical Adjustable 4X Magnifier fit for Red Dot Sight with Flip to Side Mount Shooting Accessories (Color : Black) by KTAIS. For more shooting items, visit their website.
Rifle Scope Facts
Rifle scopes allow you to precisely align a rifle at various targets by lining up your eye with the target at range. They do this through magnification by utilizing a set of lenses within the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adjusted to account for various ecological aspects like wind speed and elevation increases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to understand precisely where the bullet will land based on the sight picture you are viewing through the scope as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the target. Most modern rifle scopes and optics have about 11 parts which are arranged within and outside of the scope body. These parts consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage turrets or dials, objective focus rings, and other parts. See all eleven parts of scopes.
The Types of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” kind of scopes. The kind of focal plane a scope has establishes where the reticle or crosshair is located in connection with the scopes magnifying adjustments. It simply suggests the reticle is located behind or before the magnifying lens of the optic. Looking for the most reliable kind of rifle optic depends on what style of shooting you anticipate undertaking.
About First Focal Plane Glass
First focal plane glass (FFP) come with the reticle before the magnifying lens. This triggers the reticle to increase in size based on the amount of magnification being used. The result is that the reticle measurements are the same at the amplified range as they are at the non magnified range. One tick on a mil-dot reticle at 100 yards with no “zoom” is still the same tick at 100 yards with 5x “zoom”. These types of scopes work for:
- Quick acquisition, far away types of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where calculations are marginal
- Experienced shooters who recognize their target “hold over” and “lead” relationships for their firearm
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is enlarged and uses up more visual sight room than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Optic Info
Second focal plane scopes (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 types of shooting where shooters have more time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most of the shots take place within shorter ranges and distances
- Shooters who desire a clearer optic picture with less area taken up by the enlarged FFP reticle
Optic Zoom
The level of scope magnification you need is based on the form of shooting you like to do. Almost every style of rifle scope gives some degree of magnification. The volume of zoom a scope supplies is determined by the dimension, thickness, and curves of the lenses within the rifle optic. The magnification level of the scope is the “power” of the scope. This implies what the shooter is aiming at through the scope is amplified times the power element of what can normally be seen by human eyes.
Fixed Single Power Lens Glass Facts
A single power rifle optic and scope will have a zoom number designator like 4×32. This indicates the zoom power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this type of optic can not change because it is a fixed power optic.
Variable Power Lens Scope Info
Variable power rifle scopes use enhanced power. The power change is achieved by the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
Power and Range
Here are some recommended scope power levels and the distances where they can be successfully used. High power scopes will not be as useful as lower magnification rifle scope glass since too much magnification can be a bad thing. The exact same concept applies to longer ranges where the shooter needs to have enough power to see exactly where to best aim the rifle at the target.
Info on Optic Lens Coverings
All cutting-edge rifle scope and optic lenses are covered. Lens coating can be an essential aspect of a shooting system when looking at high end rifle optics and scope systems.
Info on Optic Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some rifle scope suppliers even use “HD” or high-def glass coatings which use various procedures, elements, compounds, and polarizations to draw out a wide range of colors and viewable target visibility through the lens. This HD coating is typically used with more costly high density glass which brings down light’s opportunity to refract through the lens glass. Some scope suppliers use “HD” to describe “ED” implying extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how colors are presented on the chroma spectrum and the chromatic deviance or aberration which is similarly called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration can be visible around objects with defined shapes as light hits the object from particular angles.
Rifle Glass Lens Single Covering Versus Multi-Coating
Different optic lenses can likewise have various coverings used to them. All lenses generally have at least some type of treatment or finish used to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic.
This lens treatment can protect the lens from scratches while lowering glare and other less helpful 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 makers likewise make it a point to define if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” coated. This means the lens has numerous treatments applied to them. If a lens receives several treatments, it can prove that a maker is taking several steps to combat various environmental factors like an anti-glare covering, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion coating, followed by a hydrophilic finishing. This also doesn’t always imply the multi-coated lens is better than a single layered lens. Being “better” depends upon the producer’s lens treatment solutions and the quality of components used in building the rifle glass.
Details on Anti-water Finishing
Water on a scope’s lens does not support maintaining a clear sight picture through a scope whatsoever. Numerous top of the line or high-end optic producers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic finishing. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a fine example of this type of treatment. It provides protection for the surface of the Steiner optic lens so the H2O molecules can not bind to it or produce surface tension. The result is that the water beads roll off of the scope to preserve a clear, water free sight picture.
Rifle Glass Installation Alternatives
Installing approaches for scopes come in a few options. There are the standard scope rings which are separately mounted to the scope and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These various kinds of mounts also usually can be found in quick release variations which use manual levers which allow rifle operators to rapidly install and dismount the glass.
Hex Key Rifle Glass Ring Mounting Solutions
Basic, clamp type mounting scope rings use hex head screws to fix to the flattop design Picatinny scope mount rails on rifles. These types of scope mounts use two detached rings to support the scope, and are normally constructed from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are manufactured for far away precision shooting. This kind of scope mount is excellent for rifles which need to have a durable, unfailing mount which will not move regardless of just how much the scope is moved about or abuse the rifle takes. These are the design of mounts you should have for a devoted scope setup on a long distance scouting or competition rifle which will pretty much never need to be modified or adjusted. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can also be used to keep the hex screw threads from backing out after they are installed safely in position. An example of these mounting rings are the 30mm style made by the Vortex Optics company. The set typically costs around $200 USD
Scope Mounts with Quick-Release Cantilever Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly connect and remove a scope from a rifle before reattaching it to a different rifle. Numerous scopes can also be switched out if they all use a similar design mount. These types of mounts are convenient for long guns which are transferred a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protecting the scope, or for scopes which are used in between numerous rifles.
Sealing and Gas Purging for Optic Tubes
Wetness inside your rifle optic can mess up a day on the range and your expensive optic by resulting in fogging and making residue within the scope’s tube. Most scopes prevent humidity from getting in the optical tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant. Generally, these water resistant optics can be immersed under 20 or 30 feet of water before the water pressure can force moisture past the O-rings. This should be sufficient moisture avoidance for standard use rifles, unless you intend on taking your rifle sailing and are worried about the scope still functioning if it falls overboard and you can still find the rifle.
Gas Purged Rifle Glass Tubes
Another component of avoiding the buildup of moisture within the rifle scope’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 differences from the outdoor environment which may potentially permit 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.
