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Rifle Scope Product Details
Monstrum S330P 3X Prism Scope | Monstrum Flip Up Lens Cover Set | Bundle
The Monstrum Tactical S330P is a compact, yet heavy duty prism scope with a fixed 3x magnification and a 30mm objective lens, ideal for rapid mid range target acquisition out to 500 yards. The scope uses a glass prism optical system rather than a refracting lens system like traditional scopes, allowing for better optical quality in a much smaller package. With crystal clear optics, an adjustable focus lens, and a comfortable eye relief of 3+ inches, it is comparable to sights several times the price.
Product bundle includes a matching set of Monstrum Rubberized Flip Up Lens Covers. Spring loaded flip-up lens covers that rubberized sleeves that conform neatly around your rifle scope tube, protecting your expensive optics from dust and abrasion.
Rifle Scope Product Features
Compact yet heavy duty prism sight with 3x magnification and 30mm objective lens, Ideal for rapid mid range target acquisition out to 500 yards.
Features a glass prism optical system rather a refracting lens system like traditional scopes, allowing for better optical quality in a much smaller package.
Unlike red dots, the reticle is visible with or without illumination, for a clean sight picture regardless of lighting or environment.
Only 15 ounces in weight and 5 inches in length.
Product bundle includes a matching set of Monstrum Rubberized Flip Up Lens Covers. Spring loaded flip-up lens covers that rubberized sleeves that conform neatly around your rifle scope tube, protecting your expensive optics from dust and abrasion
About the Monstrum Brand
Monstrum is a premium manufacturer for rifle scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other components used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They innovate and manufacture their mounts, scopes, and related products making the most of building materials which are resilient and long lasting. This includes the Monstrum S330P 3X Prism Scope | Monstrum Flip Up Lens Cover Set | Bundle by Monstrum. For additional shooting products, visit their website.
What You Need to Know About Scopes
Rifle scopes enable you to specifically align a rifle at various targets by aligning your eye with the target over a distance. They do this through magnifying the target by making use of a series of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s positioning can be dialed in to account for various natural things like wind and elevation to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to help shooters understand precisely where the bullet will hit based upon the sight picture you are viewing using the optic as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. A lot of modern rifle scopes have around eleven parts which are found within and outside of the optic. These optic pieces include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, adjustment dials or turrets, focus rings, and other parts. Learn about the eleven parts of rifle glass.
The Varieties of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” kind of scopes. The kind of focal plane an optic has establishes where the reticle or crosshair lies in relation to the scopes magnification. It literally implies the reticle is situated behind or before the magnifying lens of the optic. Deciding on the very best kind of rifle glass is based on what variety of hunting or shooting you anticipate undertaking.
Info on First Focal Plane Scopes
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the magnifying lens. This induces the reticle to increase in size based upon the amount of zoom being used. The result is that the reticle measurements are the same at the magnified distance as they are at the non magnified range. For instance, one tick on a mil-dot reticle at 100 yards with no “zoom” is still the very same tick at one hundred yards using 5x “zoom”. These kinds of scopes are useful for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance types of shooting
- Shooting circumstances where computations are low
- Experienced shooters who recognize their target “hold over” and also “lead” equations for their firearm
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is bigger and occupies more visual sight area than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Scope Info
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) include the reticle behind the magnification lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” 100 yard tick reticle measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick measurement.
- Far away styles of shooting where shooters have extra time to make ballistic computations
- Shooting where most shots take place within much shorter proximities and ranges
- Shooters who desire a clearer optic sight picture without space used up by the bigger FFP reticle
Magnification for Glass
The quantity of scope magnification you need on your glass is based on the sort of shooting you choose to do. Virtually every type of rifle optic gives some degree of zoom. The amount of zoom a scope supplies is determined by the dimension, thickness, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle optic. The magnification level of the optic is the “power” of the glass. This suggests what the shooter is checking out through the scope is amplified times the power aspect of what can usually be seen by human eyes.
Single Power Lens Rifle Scope Info
A single power rifle optic or scope will have a magnification number designator like 4×32. This suggests the magnification power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this kind of scope can not fluctuate given that it is a set power scope.
Variable Power Lens Scopes
Variable power rifle scopes use enhanced power. The power modification is handled using the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
The Power Level and Range Correlation of Rifle Scopes
Here are some suggested scope powers and the ranges where they could be efficiently used. Keep in mind that high power scopes will not be as effective as lower magnification level glass since too much zoom can be a negative thing in certain situations. The exact same concept relates to extended ranges where the shooter needs to have enough power to see where to best aim the rifle at the target.
Optic Lens Covering
All modern rifle optic and scope lenses are covered in special coatings. There are various types and qualities of finishings. When considering high end rifle scope setups, Lens finishing can be a crucial aspect of a rifle. The lenses are among the most vital components of the scope as they are what your eye sees through while sighting a rifle in on the target. The covering on the lenses protects the lens surface area and even assists with anti glare from excess daylight and color presence.
About Rifle Optic Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some optic manufacturers even use “HD” or high-definition lense finishings that employ various procedures, rare earth compounds, elements, and polarizations to extract separate color ranges and viewable target definition through lenses. This HD finish is normally used with more costly, high density lens glass which brings down light’s potential to refract by means of the lens glass. Some scope brands use “HD” to describe “ED” suggesting extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how certain colors are presented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic deviance or aberration which is similarly called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration is often noticeable over things with defined outlines as light hits the object from certain angles.
Rifle Optic Lens Single Finish Versus Multi-Coating
Different optic lenses can also have different finishes used to them. All lenses usually have at least some type of treatment or coating used to them before they are used in a rifle scope or optic.
Single coated lenses have a treatment applied to them which is generally a protective and boosting multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can safeguard the lens from scratches while minimizing glare and other less advantageous 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 spent on it. Both the make and cost are signs of the lens quality.
Some scope producers likewise make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are covered or “multi” coated. This means the lens has numerous treatments applied to the surfaces of the glass. If a lens gets multiple treatments, it can indicate that a producer is taking multiple actions to fight different natural factors like an anti-glare coating, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion coating, followed by a hydrophilic covering. This also does not always suggest the multi-coated lens will perform much better than a single coated lens. Being “better” depends on the producer’s lens treatment solutions and the quality of components used in building the rifle optic.
Anti-water Lens Finishes
Water on an optical lens does not improve keeping a clear sight picture through an optic whatsoever. Lots of top of the line or 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 kind of treatment. It treats the exterior surfaces of the Steiner glass lens so the H2O particles can not bind to it or develop surface tension. The outcome is that the water beads sheet off of the scope to keep a clear, water free sight picture.
Options for Installing Rifle Optics on Long Guns
Mounting options for scopes come in a few choices. There are the basic scope rings which are individually installed to the scope and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These different types of mounts also normally come in quick release versions which use manual levers which allow rifle shooters to rapidly install and dismount the glass.
Optic Mounts with Hex Key Rings
Basic, clamp type mounting optic rings use hex head screws to mount to the flattop style Picatinny scope mount rails on the tops of rifles. These types of scope mounts use a pair of detached rings to support the scope, and are normally made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are made for far away precision shooting. This type of scope mount is exceptional for rifles which need to have a durable, rock solid mount which will not move regardless of just how much the scope is moved or jarring the rifle takes. These are the design of mounts you want for a specialized scope system on a far away hunting or tournament long gun that will almost never need to be changed or adjusted. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can also be used on the scope mount screws to keep the hex screw threads from wiggling out after they are mounted tightly in place. An example of these mounting rings are the 30mm style made by the Vortex Optics company. The set usually costs around $200 USD
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Optic Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to rapidly attach and take off a scope from a rifle. A wide range of scopes can also be switched out if they all use a similar style mount. The quick detach design is CNC crafted from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers connect solidly to a flat top design Picatinny rail. This lets the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, taken off of the rifle, and remounted while retaining the original sighting settings. These types of mounts come in handy for rifles which are hauled around a lot, to take off the scope glass from the rifle for protection, or for optics which are used in between several rifles. An example of this mount style is the 30mm mount from Vortex Optics. It generally costs around $250 USD
Sealing and Gas Purging for Scope Tubes
Moisture inside your rifle scope can ruin a day of shooting and your expensive optic by triggering fogging and creating residue inside of the scope tube. Many scopes prevent moisture from entering the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are waterproof.
Scope Gas Purging
Another element of avoiding the accumulation of wetness within the rifle optic’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Because this area is already occupied by the gas, the optic is less impacted by condition changes and pressure distinctions from the outdoor environment which may possibly enable water vapor to leak in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to seek out.
