Description
Rifle Scope Mount Product Details
Leupold STD 1-in High Ext, Gloss
STD 1″ High Ext Gloss
Rifle Scope Mount Product Features
Package length: 11.43 cm
Package width: 11.43 cm
Package height: 1.27 cm
Product Type: SPORTING GOODS
About the Leupold Company
Leupold is a premium company for firearm scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other components used for guns like rifles and long guns. They innovate and build their scopes and related products working with elements which are long lasting and durable. This includes the Leupold STD 1-in High Ext, Gloss by Leupold. For additional shooting goods, visit their site.
Rifle Scope Info
Rifle scopes allow you to precisely align a rifle at various targets by aligning your eye with the target over a distance. They accomplish this through magnifying the target by using a series of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adjusted for consideration of varied natural elements like wind and elevation decreases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to help the shooter understand exactly where the bullet will hit based upon the sight picture you are seeing using the scope as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the target. A lot of contemporary rifle optics have around eleven parts which are arranged within and externally on the scope body. These scope parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, elevation turrets, objective focus rings, and other parts. Learn about the eleven parts of glass.
The Styles of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. The form of focal plane a scope has determines where the reticle or crosshair is located in regard to the scopes magnification. It literally indicates the reticle is behind or before the magnification lens of the optic. Picking the most ideal form of rifle optic depends upon what style of shooting or hunting you plan on doing.
First Focal Plane Scope Facts
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the magnification lens. This triggers the reticle to increase in size based on the amount of zoom being used. The outcome is that the reticle measurements are the same at the amplified distance as they are at the non amplified distance. One tick on a mil-dot reticle at 100 yards with no “zoom” is still the identical tick at one hundred yards by using 5x “zoom”. These types of scopes work for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance types of shooting
- Shooting circumstances where computations are small
- Experienced shooters who know their aim point “hold over” plus “lead” equations for their rifles
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is enlarged and requires more visual sight space than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Glass
Second focal plane optics (SFP) feature the reticle to the rear of the zoom lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick reticle 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 of the shots happen within much shorter ranges and spaces
- Shooters who like a clearer optic sight picture without area taken up by the bigger FFP reticle
Details on Optic Magnification
The amount of zoom a scope supplies is identified by the diameter, thickness, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The magnification of the scope is the “power” of the scope.
Fixed Power Lens Rifle Optic Info
A single power rifle optic or scope comes with 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 scope can not change given that it is set from the factory.
Variable Power Lens Optics
Variable power rifle scopes use enhanced power. The power adjustment is achieved by the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
Power Levels and Range
Here are some recommended scope power settings and the ranges where they can be efficiently used. Remember that higher magnification optics and scopes will not be as practical as lower powered scopes since too much zoom can be a negative thing in certain situations. The same idea relates to longer ranges where the shooter needs enough power to see exactly where to properly aim the rifle at the target.
About Lens Finishes
All current rifle scope lenses are coated. Lens coating is a significant aspect of a rifle’s setup when purchasing high end rifle optics and scope systems.
ED Versus HD Rifle Scopes
Some scope producers likewise use “HD” or high-definition lens coatings which use different processes, chemicals, polarizations, and aspects to draw out a wide range of colors and viewable quality through the lens. Some scope producers use “HD” to refer to “ED” implying extra-low dispersion glass.
Info on Single Covering Versus Multi-Coating
Different optic lenses can also have various coatings used to them. All lenses normally have at least some type of treatment or covering applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic.
Single coated lenses have a treatment applied to them which is generally a protective and enhancing multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can safeguard the lens from scratches while minimizing 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 producer and how much you spent on it. The scope’s maker and cost are indications of the lens quality.
Some scope producers similarly make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” coated. Being “much better” depends on the manufacturer’s lens treatment technology and the quality of materials used in building the rifle scope.
Anti-water Lens Finishing
Water on a scope lens does not assist with preserving a clear sight picture through an optic whatsoever. Many top of the line or high-end scope manufacturers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic coating. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a fine example of this type of treatment. It treats the exterior surfaces of the Steiner optic lens so the water molecules can not bind to it or develop surface tension. The outcome is that the water beads slide off of the scope to preserve a clear, water free sight picture.
Alternatives for Mounting Optics on Long Guns
Mounting options for scopes are available in a few choices. There are the standard scope rings which are separately installed to the scope and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These various types of mounts also normally are made in quick release versions which use toss levers which allow rifle shooters to quickly mount and remove the glass.
Scope Mounting Solutions with Hex Key Rings
Normal, clamp style mounting scope rings use hex head screws to mount to the flattop design Picatinny scope installation rails on rifles. These types of scope mounts use a couple of separate rings to support the optic, and are made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which is designed for long distance accuracy shooting. This type of scope mount is fine for rifles which require a durable, rock solid mounting solution which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abused.
Glass 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. Multiple scopes can also be swapped out if they all use a compatible design mount. These types of mounts are convenient for rifle platforms which are carried a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protection, or for optics which are used in between numerous rifles.
Rifle Optic Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Moisture inside your rifle optic can ruin a day of shooting and your expensive optic by bringing about fogging and creating residue inside of the scope tube. A lot of scopes prevent moisture from going into the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Scope Gas Purging
Another part of avoiding the buildup of wetness within the rifle scope tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Considering that this space is already occupied by the gas, the scope is less altered by condition changes and pressure differences from the external environment which may potentially allow water vapor to leak in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to look for.
