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Rifle Scope Base Product Details
Nightforce One Piece Base HS 700 – Long Action 20 MOA 8-40 screws
Nightforce 1 Piece M700 LA 20 MOA Base A135
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About the NightForce Scope Maker
NightForce is a premium supplier for long gun scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other add-ons used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They innovate and build their mounts and related products choosing elements which are long lasting and resilient. This includes the Nightforce One Piece Base HS 700 – Long Action 20 MOA 8-40 screws by NightForce. For more shooting products, visit their site.
All About Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes enable you to exactly align a rifle at different targets by lining up your eye with the target at range. They accomplish this through zoom by employing a series of lenses within the scope. The scope’s alignment can be adjusted for consideration of separate natural factors like wind and elevation increases or decreases to account for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to understand precisely where the bullet will land based upon the sight picture you are viewing via the scope as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the target. Most contemporary rifle optics have about 11 parts which are located within and on the exterior of the optic. These scope parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, adjustment turrets or dials, focus rings, and other components. See all eleven parts of a rifle optical system.
The Varieties of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Opting for the perfect type of rifle glass is based on what type of shooting you plan to do.
About First Focal Plane Glass
Focal plane scopes (FFP) include the reticle in front of the zoom lens. These styles of scopes are useful for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance kinds of shooting
- Shooting circumstances where computations are marginal
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their target “hold over” and “lead” correlations for their rifles
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is enlarged and takes up more visual sight room than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Scope Facts
Second focal plane optics (SFP) come with 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 reticle measurement.
- Long distance forms of shooting where shooters have additional time to make ballistic estimations
- Shooting where most shots happen within much shorter ranges and spaces
- Shooters who desire a clearer optic picture with less space taken up by the larger sized FFP reticle
Glass Magnification
The measure of scope zoom you need on your glass is based on the type of shooting you wish to do. Nearly every type of rifle optic supplies some level of zoom. The level of magnification a scope provides is determined by the size, density, and curvatures of the lens glass inside of the rifle optic. The zoom of the optic is the “power” of the glass. This signifies what the shooter is aiming at through the scope is amplified times the power factor of what can generally be seen by human eyes.
Info on Single Power Lens Optics
A single power rifle optic and scope uses a zoom number designator like 4×32. This implies the magnification 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 a fixed power scope.
Info on Variable Power Lens Rifle Scopes
Variable power rifle scopes can be modified between magnified levels. The power adjustment is achieved using the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
Power Levels and Range Correlations
Here are some advised scope power levels and the ranges where they can be effectively used. High power rifle scope glass will not be as effective as lower magnification level rifle scope glass due to the fact that too much zoom can be a bad thing. The same concept goes for longer distances where the shooter needs to have sufficient power to see precisely where to best aim the rifle.
Rifle Glass Lens Covering
All modern rifle optic and scope lenses are covered in special coatings. There are different types and qualities of coatings. When thinking about luxury rifle optics and scope units, Lens coating can be an important component of defining the rifle’s capability. The glass lenses are among the most vital parts of the optic due to the fact that they are what your eye sees through while sighting a rifle in on the target. The finishing on the lenses offers protection to the lens exterior and also improves anti glare capabilities from excess daylight and color discernibility.
Details on Scope Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some scope brands also use “HD” or high-definition lens finishings which use different methods, polarizations, aspects, and chemicals to draw out various colors and viewable definition through the lens. Some scope manufacturers use “HD” to refer to “ED” implying extra-low dispersion glass.
Single Coating Versus Multi-Coating for Optics
Different optic lenses can even have different finishes applied to them. All lenses typically have at least some type of treatment or finish applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic. Because the lens isn’t simply a raw piece of glass, they require performance enhancing coatings. It is part of the carefully tuned optic. It requires a coating to be applied to it so that it will be efficiently functional in many kinds of environments, degrees of sunshine (full light VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
This lens treatment can safeguard the lens from scratches while lowering 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 maker and how much you paid for it.
Some scope makers also make it a point to define if their optic lenses are covered or “multi” coated. This suggests the lens has multiple treatments applied to them. If a lens receives numerous treatments, it can indicate that a company is taking numerous actions to combat different natural elements like an anti-glare finish, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion coating, followed by a hydrophilic covering. This additionally doesn’t always suggest the multi-coated lens is better than a single covered lens. Being “much better” depends on the manufacturer’s lens treatment innovation and the quality of products used in building the rifle optic.
Hydrophobic Lens Coating
Water on a lens does not help with preserving a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Many top of the line and high-end optic companies will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic coating.
Choices for Installing Rifle Scopes on Long Guns
Installing solutions for scopes can be found in a couple of options. There are the standard scope rings which are separately mounted to the optic and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These various kinds of mounts also usually are made in quick release variations which use toss levers which enable rifle operators to rapidly mount and remove the scope.
Rifle Scope Mounts with Hex Key Rings
Standard, clamp design 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 a couple of different rings to support the optic, and are made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are developed for long distance precision shooting. This type of scope install is wonderful for rifles which require a long lasting, rock solid mount which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abused.
Rifle Glass Mounts with Quick-Release Cantilever Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly attach and take off a scope from a rifle before reattaching it to a different rifle. Several scopes can also be switched out if they all use a similar design mount. These types of mounts are convenient for rifles which are carried a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protecting the scope, or for scopes which are used in between several rifles.
Sealing and Gas Purging for Optic Tubes
Moisture inside your rifle optic can ruin a day of shooting and your costly optic by causing fogging and creating residue inside of the scope tube. Most scopes prevent moisture from going into the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Gas Purged Optic Tubes
Another component of avoiding the accumulation of moisture within the rifle scope tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Since this space is currently taken up by the gas, the scope is less impacted by climate shifts and pressure variations from the outside environment which might possibly enable water vapor to seep 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.
