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Rifle Scope Product Details
Athlon Optics Argos HMR 4-20×50 Riflescope – AHMC SFP IR MOA
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 producer for weapon scopes, optics, mounts, and other accessories used for guns like rifles and long guns. They design and build their scopes and related products by using building materials which are resilient and long lasting. This includes the Athlon Optics Argos HMR 4-20×50 Riflescope – AHMC SFP IR MOA by Athlon Optics. For additional shooting goods, visit their site.
Rifle Scope Information
Rifle scopes allow you to specifically align a rifle at various targets by lining up your eye with the target over a distance. They accomplish this through magnifying the target by making use of a series of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s alignment can be adapted to account for many environmental things like wind and elevation increases or decreases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to help the shooter understand exactly where the bullet will land based on the sight picture you are seeing via the optic as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended point of impact. Many contemporary rifle scopes and optics have about 11 parts which are located inside and on the exterior of the scope body. These optic pieces include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, adjustment turrets or dials, objective focus rings, and other parts. See all eleven parts of a rifle scope.
About Rifle Glass Varieties
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. The sort of focal plane a scope has identifies where the reticle or crosshair lies in connection with the scopes zoom. It literally indicates the reticle is situated behind or before the magnification lens of the optic. Picking the most desired style of rifle glass is based upon what kind of shooting or hunting you intend on undertaking.
First Focal Plane Glass
Focal plane scopes (FFP) include the reticle in front of the magnification lens. These types of scopes are useful for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance types of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where estimations are very little
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their target “hold over” and also “lead” correlations for their long guns
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is bigger and occupies more visual eyesight space than a SFP reticle
Info About Second Focal Plane Glass
Second focal plane optics (SFP) feature 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 increased time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most shots happen within much shorter proximities and ranges
- Shooters who select a clearer optic picture without area taken up by the bigger FFP reticle
Optic Zoom
The amount of scope magnification you need depends upon the form of shooting you would like to do. Nearly every type of rifle glass supplies some level of zoom. The volume of zoom a scope offers is determined by the size, thickness, and curves of the lens glass within the rifle optic. The magnification of the optic is the “power” of the glass. This signifies what the shooter is looking at through the scope is magnified times the power element of what can generally be seen by human eyes.
Fixed Power Lens Glass Facts
A single power rifle optic comes with 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 fluctuate because it is set from the factory.
Info About Variable Power Lens Rifle Optics
Variable power rifle scopes use variable power levels. The power adjustment is accomplished by using the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
Power and Range Correlations
Here are some advised scope power settings and the ranges where they can be successfully used. High power rifle scope glass will not be as efficient as lower magnification level scopes considering too much magnification can be a negative aspect depending on your shooting distance. The same idea relates to extended ranges where the shooter needs to have increased power to see where to properly aim the rifle at the target.
Lens Finishing for Optics
All modern-day rifle optic and scope lenses are covered. Lens finish can be a crucial aspect of a shooting platform when considering high end rifle optics and scope setups.
HD Versus ED Lens Coatings
Some optic manufacturers additionally use “HD” or high-definition glass finishings which apply different procedures, elements, polarizations, and chemical applications to draw out numerous color ranges and viewable definition through the lens. This high-definition covering is commonly used with more costly high density lens glass which decreases light’s opportunity to refract through the lens glass. Some scope makers use “HD” to describe “ED” meaning extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how colors are presented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic difference or aberration which is similarly called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration is often obvious around objects with hard edges and shapes as light hits the object from certain angles.
Single Rifle Glass Lens Finishing Versus Multi-Coating
Different optic lenses can likewise have different coatings applied to them. All lenses generally have at least some type of treatment or finish used to them before being used in a rifle scope or optic.
Single covered lenses have a treatment applied to them which is usually a protective and improving multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can shield the lens from scratches while minimizing glare and other less beneficial things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the optic. The quality of a single coated lens depends on the scope developer and how much money you paid for it. The scope’s maker and cost are signs of the lens quality.
Some scope makers likewise make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are layered or “multi” covered. This suggests the lens has numerous treatments applied to the surfaces. If a lens gets multiple treatments, it can indicate that a maker is taking multiple steps to fight different environmental elements like an anti-glare covering, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion coating, followed by a hydrophilic finishing. This also doesn’t always suggest the multi-coated lens will perform much better than a single covered lens. Being “better” is dependent on the maker’s lens treatment innovation and the quality of products used in constructing the rifle scope.
What to Know About Anti-water Finish
Water on a lens does not support retaining a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Lots of top of the line and 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 deals with the surface area of the Steiner glass lens so the water molecules can not bind to it or develop surface tension. The outcome is that the water beads move off of the scope to preserve a clear, water free sight picture.
Options for Mounting Scopes on Firearms
Installing approaches for scopes come 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 different types of mounts also usually can be found in quick release variations which use manual levers which enable rifle operators to quickly install and remove the scope.
Hex Key Rifle Glass Ring Mounting Solutions
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 often made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are developed for long range accuracy shooting. This type of scope install is great for rifles which need a long lasting, rock solid mounting solution which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abuse the rifle takes.
Quick-Release Cantilever Scope Ring Mounting Solutions
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 even be swapped out if they all use a compatible design mount. These types of mounts are handy for long guns which are transferred a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protection, or for scopes which are used in between several rifles.
Info Around Rifle Glass Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle scope can destroy a day of shooting and your pricey optic by bringing about fogging and creating residue inside of the scope tube. A lot of scopes prevent moisture from getting in the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Gas Purged Optic Tubes
Another component of avoiding the buildup of wetness inside of the rifle optic’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Since this space is currently occupied by the gas, the optic is less influenced by condition shifts and pressure differences from the outside environment which could potentially allow water vapor to seep in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to look for.
