Description
Rifle Scope Product Details
M1Surplus Compact Series 4×32 Rifle Scope with Ring Mounts Fits Weaver Picatinny Rails Fits Mossberg 715t MMR FLEX-22, Hi-Point Carbine, Kel-Tec SU16 SU22, Remington Model 597 Rifles
SPECIFICATIONS Magnification: 4X Tube Diameter: 1″ Objective: 32 mm Eye Relief: 3″ Exit Pupil: 8 mm FOV (feet at 100 yds.): 36.6 M.O.A.: 1/4 Finish: Matte Black Lens Coating: Blue Length: 7.75″ Weight: 11 oz. , Range Estimating Reticle Pattern – FEATURES Milled from one solid piece of aircraft grade aluminum to withstand recoil, Fog proof and shock-resistant housing, Nitrogen charged with weather resistant seals, Blue fused multi-coated lens provides superior light transmission, resolution and scratch resistance Windage and elevation adjustment 3 Inch eye relief provides safety from heavy recoil and enables fast target acquisition. Weaver / Picatinny mounts include All items are Brand New w/ Full Manufacture Warranty ____________________________________
Rifle Scope Product Features
Tactical Compact Series Rifle Scope with Range Estimating Reticle Pattern
Includes Aluminum Scope Ring Mounts
Length: 7.75″ , Weight: 11 oz.
Full Manufacture Warranty Against Defects
This item cannot be exported outside the USA
About the M1Surplus Brand
M1Surplus is a premium producer for weapon scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other add-ons used for guns like rifles and long guns. They innovate and build their mounts, scopes, and related products using building materials which are long lasting and resilient. This includes the M1Surplus Compact Series 4×32 Rifle Scope with Ring Mounts Fits Weaver Picatinny Rails Fits Mossberg 715t MMR FLEX-22, Hi-Point Carbine, Kel-Tec SU16 SU22, Remington Model 597 Rifles by M1Surplus. For additional shooting products, visit their site.
What You Need to Know About Glass
Rifle scopes allow you to exactly align a rifle at different targets by aligning your eye with the target at range. They accomplish this through magnifying the target using a set of lenses within the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adjusted for the consideration of separate natural considerations like wind and elevation increases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to help shooters understand exactly where the bullet will land based on the sight picture you are seeing via the scope as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. The majority of modern-day rifle scopes have about eleven parts which are located inside and externally on the scope. These parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, modification turrets, focus rings, and other components. See all eleven parts of a scope.
Rifle Optic Varieties
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Picking the finest type of rifle scope is based around what type of shooting you plan to do.
Info About First Focal Plane Scopes
First focal plane glass (FFP) come with the reticle before the magnifying lens. This causes the reticle to increase in size based upon the amount of zoom being used. The outcome is that the reticle measurements are the same at the amplified range as they are at the non amplified distance. As an example, one tick on a mil-dot reticle at one hundred yards without having “zoom” is still the very same tick at one hundred yards using 5x “zoom”. These types of scopes work for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance kinds of shooting
- Shooting situations where calculations are very little
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their target “hold over” as well as “lead” correlations for their long guns
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is bigger and uses up more visual eyesight room than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Optics
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) come with the reticle behind the zoom lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick reticle measurement.
- Far away forms of shooting where shooters have increased time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most of the shots occur within shorter ranges and spaces
- Shooters who select a clearer optic picture without space used up by the enlarged FFP reticle
Magnification for Rifle Optics
The amount of zoom a scope offers is figured out 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.
Single Power Lens Rifle Glass
A single power rifle optic or scope uses a magnification number designator like 4×32. This means the magnification power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this type of scope can not adjust considering that it is a fixed power optic.
Variable Power Lens Glass
Variable power rifle scopes have adjustable power. It will list the zoom degree in a configuration such as 2-10×32. These numbers indicate the magnification of the scope could be adjusted in between 2x and 10x power. This additionally incorporates the power levels in-between 2 and 10. The power modification is achieved by making use of the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
The Power Level and Range of Optics
Here are some recommended scope power settings and the distances where they may be effectively used. High power rifle scope glass will not be as useful as lower magnification optics due to the fact that too much zoom can be a negative aspect depending on your shooting distance. The exact same idea relates to longer ranges where the shooter needs to have enough power to see where to properly aim the rifle at the target.
About Lens Finishes
All state-of-the-art rifle optic and scope lenses are coated. Lens finish is an essential element of a shooting system when purchasing high end rifle optics and scope equipment.
Info on Optic Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some rifle glass suppliers even use “HD” or high-def glass coatings which use different processes, chemicals, aspects, and polarizations to enhance various color ranges and viewable target definition through lenses. This high-def coating is normally used with more costly high density lens glass which reduces light’s opportunity to refract by means of the lens glass. Some scope makers use “HD” to refer to “ED” meaning extra-low dispersion glass. ED handles how colors are presented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic deviance or aberration which is similarly called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration may be noticeable around objects with hard outlines as light hits the item from particular angles.
Single Finish Versus Multi-Coating
Various optic lenses can even have different finishings applied to them. All lenses generally have at least some kind of treatment or coating applied to them before being used in a rifle scope or optic assembly. This is due to the fact that the lens isn’t simply a raw piece of glass. It becomes part of the finely tuned optic. It must have a finishing put on it so that the lens will be optimally functional in numerous types of environments, degrees of sunshine (full light VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
This lens treatment can offer protection to 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 coated lens depends on the scope maker and how much you paid for it.
Some scope makers similarly make it a point to define if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” coated. Being “better” depends on the producer’s lens treatment technology and the quality of products used in developing the rifle scope.
What to Know About Anti-water Coating
Water on a scope’s lens does not support maintaining a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Lots of top of the line or premium optic producers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic finishing. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a good example of this kind of treatment. It deals with the exterior surfaces of the Steiner optic lens so the H2O particles can not bind to it or develop surface tension. The result is that the water beads slide off of the scope to keep a clear, water free sight picture.
Rifle Optic Installing Options
Installing solutions for scopes are available in a couple of choices. There are the standard scope rings which are individually installed to the optic and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These various kinds of mounts also usually come in quick release variations which use throw levers which permit rifle shooters to rapidly install and dismount the optics.
Hex Key Rifle Scope Ring Mounting Solutions
Normal, clamp style mounting scope rings use hex head screws to mount to the flattop style Picatinny scope mount rails on rifles. These types of scope mounts use two separate rings to support the optic, and are made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which is developed for long distance precision shooting. This type of scope install is wonderful for rifles which need a long lasting, sound mount which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abused.
Scope Mounts with Quick-Release Cantilever Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly detach a scope from a rifle and reattach it to a different rifle. If they all use a similar style mount, a number of scopes can also be swapped out on the range. The quick detach design is CNC machined from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers fasten solidly to a flat top design Picatinny rail. This lets the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, removed from the rifle, and remounted while preserving the original sighting settings. These kinds of mounts are useful and beneficial for rifles which are moved around a lot, to take off the glass from the rifle for protection, or for scopes which are used in between multiple rifles. An example of this mount style is the 30mm mount from the Vortex Optics manufacturer. It generally costs around $250 USD
About Rifle Scope Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle optic can mess up a day of shooting and your expensive optic by triggering fogging and creating residue inside of the scope tube. A lot of scopes avoid wetness from going into the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Info on Rifle Glass Tube Gas Purging
Another component of avoiding the buildup of moisture within the rifle optic tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Because this area is currently taken up by the gas, the glass is less influenced by temperature level shifts and pressure distinctions from the outside environment which could potentially allow water vapor to seep in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to seek out.
