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Rifle Scope Product Details
Athlon Optics Argos HMR 2-12×42 Riflescope – AHMC SFP IR
The Argos HMR is designed from the ground up with the average outdoorsman in mind. This compact and durable hunting scope is a feature-rich, yet affordable option. 5x and 6x magnification ratios are ideally suited for a wide variety of close and long range hunting. Advanced Fully Multi-Coated lenses paired with clean and concise reticles like an illuminated center-dot crosshair, Mil-Dot, or BDC reticle options for a fool-proof traditional setup.
Rifle Scope Product Features
0.25 MOA Click Value, 60 MOA Total Adjustment, 10 yards to infinity Parallax adjustment
Designed for Hunting with HD Glass gives you better light transmission, brighter, and sharper image.
Advanced Fully Multicoated optics effectively reduces reflected light and increases the transmission of light giving you a brighter image than normal single coated lenses
Reticle etched on the glass that provides excellent backing support for complex reticle design and offers great durability and much higher shock resistance to recoil
Illuminated reticle with bullet drop holdovers offers great visibility and allows you to easily put the reticle over your target during low light condition.
About the Athlon Optics Company
Athlon Optics is a premium supplier for long gun scopes, optics, mounts, and other accessories used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They design and manufacture their scopes and related products working with building materials which are long lasting and resilient. This includes the Athlon Optics Argos HMR 2-12×42 Riflescope – AHMC SFP IR by Athlon Optics. For more shooting goods, visit their site.
Info About Optics
Rifle scopes enable you to exactly aim a rifle at various targets by aligning your eye with the target at range. They accomplish this through zoom by using a set of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s alignment can be dialed in to account for varied environmental considerations like wind speed and elevation decreases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to help shooters understand exactly where the bullet will land based on the sight picture you are seeing through the optic as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. Most modern rifle optics have around 11 parts which are arranged internally and outside of the scope. These scope parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage and elevation turrets, focus rings, and other parts. Learn about the eleven parts of scopes.
About Scope Types
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Deciding upon the best type of rifle optic depends on what type of shooting you plan to do.
About First Focal Plane Scopes
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the zoom lens. These styles of scopes are helpful for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance kinds of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where computations are minor
- Experienced shooters who know their target “hold over” as well as “lead” ratios for their rifles
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is bigger and requires more visual sight room than a SFP reticle
Info on Second Focal Plane Glass
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) come with the reticle to the rear of the magnification lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” 100 yard tick measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick reticle measurement.
- Far away forms of shooting where shooters have more time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most shots occur within much shorter proximities and ranges
- Shooters who like a clearer optic sight picture with less room used up by the enlarged FFP reticle
Rifle Glass Zoom
The quantity of magnification a scope provides is identified by the size, density, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The zoom of the scope is the “power” of the scope.
Fixed Single Power Lens Rifle Scopes
A single power rifle optic or scope will have a magnification number designator like 4×32. This means the zoom power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this type of optic can not change since it is a set power scope.
Adjustable Power Lens Scopes
Variable power rifle scopes can be tweaked between magnified levels. The power adjustment is performed by the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
Rifle Glass Power Level and Ranges
Here are some suggested scope power settings and the distances where they may be successfully used. High power glass will not be as effective as lower magnification level optics due to the fact that too much magnification can be a negative aspect depending on your shooting distance. The very same idea applies to longer distances where the shooter needs to have adequate power to see precisely where to best aim the rifle.
Lens Coating for Rifle Scopes
All contemporary rifle scope and optic lenses are coated. There are different types and qualities of lens coatings. When researching luxury rifle optics and scope devices, Lens finish can be a vital aspect of defining the rifle’s capability. The glass lenses are one of the most key pieces of the optic since they are what your eye sees through while sighting a rifle in on the point of impact. The covering on the lenses offers protection to the lens exterior and helps with anti glare capabilities from excess direct sunlight and color presence.
Info on Scope Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some scope manufacturers likewise use “HD” or high-definition lens coverings which use various methods, chemicals, elements, and polarizations to draw out separate colors and viewable quality through the lens. Some scope manufacturers use “HD” to refer to “ED” meaning extra-low dispersion glass.
Single Coating Versus Multi-Coating
Different optic lenses can likewise have different finishings used to them. All lenses generally have at least some type of treatment or covering applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic.
This lens treatment can protect 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 layered lens depends on the scope producer and how much you paid for it.
Some scope makers also make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are layered or “multi” covered. This implies the lens has multiple treatments applied to them. If a lens receives numerous treatments, it can prove that a manufacturer is taking several steps to fight various natural aspects like an anti-glare finishing, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion finish, followed by a hydrophilic finishing. This also doesn’t always imply the multi-coated lens will perform much better than a single layered lens. Being “much better” depends upon the maker’s lens treatment solutions and the quality of materials used in creating the rifle optic.
Anti-water Finish for Glass
Water on a scope lens does not assist with preserving a clear sight picture through an optic in any way. Lots of top of the line and high-end scope producers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic finish. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a good example of this sort of treatment. It deals with the exterior of the Steiner glass lens so the H2O molecules can not bind to it or create surface tension. The result is that the water beads slide off of the scope to maintain a clear, water free sight picture.
Options for Mounting Optics on Firearms
Mounting approaches for scopes can be found in a few options. There are the basic scope rings which are individually mounted to the scope and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These various types of mounts also normally come in quick release variations which use throw levers which allow rifle shooters to quickly mount and remove the optics.
Glass Mounts with Hex Key Rings
Standard, clamp type mounting optic rings use hex head screws to fix to the flattop design Picatinny scope mount rails on the tops of rifles. These styles of scope mounts use a pair of independent rings to support the scope, and are usually constructed from 7075 T6 billet aluminum or similar materials which are created for far away precision shooting. This type of scope mount is ideal for rifles which need to have a resilient, rock solid mount which will not change no matter how much the scope is moved about or jarring the rifle takes. These are the style of mounts you want for a specialized optics system on a long distance scouting or interdiction rifle that will hardly ever need to be modified or adjusted. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can also be used on the screws to keep the hex screw threads from backing out after they are mounted tightly in position. An example of these rings are the 30mm style from the Vortex Optics brand. The set usually costs around $200 USD
Quick-Release Cantilever Glass Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly take off a scope and attach it to a different rifle. Multiple scopes can even be swapped out if they all use a similar design mount. These types of mounts come in handy for rifle platforms which are transported a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protecting the scope, or for optics which are used between multiple rifles.
Sealing and Gas Purging for Rifle Glass Tubes
Wetness inside your rifle optic can mess up a day of shooting and your costly optic by causing fogging and creating residue inside of the scope tube. Most scopes prevent wetness from getting in the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are waterproof.
Optic Gas Purging
Another element of avoiding the buildup of moisture inside of the rifle optic tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Given that this space is currently taken up by the gas, the scope is less affected by condition shifts and pressure distinctions from the external environment which could potentially permit water vapor to permeate in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to look for.
