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Rifle Scope Product Details
Badger Ring, Fits Picatinny, Alloy, High Height, Black 30617
Badger Ordnance High 30mm Ring MAX-Alloy. In the early 1990’s Badger Ordnance identified the need for quality tactical scope rings and mounts designed to meet the higher demands of the emerging Military and Law Enforcement tactical shooting community. Badger Scope Rings are machined from steel barstock as serialized matched pairs. This assures that both rings are identical and eliminates the damaging effects of mismatched mass produced rings. Maximized rings are designed to fit Mil-Std 1913 (also called Picatinny) optical rails and are finished with Mil-Std Black Oxide. All the hardware on our rings was designed by us and is made to our specifications including the Torx screws that hold the scope securely in the rings. MAX-50 Rings are made to the same specifications as our standard rings but are wide! The MAX-50’s have 60% more holding power and were designed specifically to tame the recoil of the .50 BMG. Six 8-40 Torx screws secure each scope cap to the ring. The Maximized series of Scope Rings and Rails are made to the highest tolerances in the industry. 4.6oz. Height 1.25″.
Rifle Scope Product Features
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About the Badger Company
Badger is a premium company for long gun scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other add-ons used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They create and manufacture their scopes, mounts, and related products by using elements which are durable and long lasting. This includes the Badger Ring, Fits Picatinny, Alloy, High Height, Black 30617 by Badger. For more shooting items, visit their website.
What You Need to Know About Rifle Optics
Rifle scopes allow you to exactly aim a rifle at various targets by lining up your eye with the target over a distance. They accomplish this through magnification by employing a set of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s positioning can be dialed in to take into account separate environmental considerations like wind and elevation decreases to account for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to help the shooter understand precisely where the bullet will hit based on the sight picture you are viewing via the optic as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. Most modern-day rifle optics have around 11 parts which are arranged within and externally on the optic. These scope parts consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, modification dials or turrets, focus rings, and other elements. See all eleven parts of a rifle optical system.
About Rifle Glass Styles
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” kind of scopes. The sort of focal plane an optic has determines where the reticle or crosshair lies in relation to the scopes magnifying adjustments. It actually means the reticle is behind or in front of the magnifying lens of the optic. Deciding upon the most desired form of rifle optic depends on what kind of shooting or hunting you anticipate undertaking.
About First Focal Plane Scopes
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the magnification lens. These styles of scopes are useful for:
- Quick acquisition, far away types of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where estimations are minimal
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their aim point “hold over” and also “lead” correlations for their rifles
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is bigger and takes up more visual sight space than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Scope Details
Second focal plane optics (SFP) come with the reticle to the rear of the zoom 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.
- Far away types of shooting where shooters have additional time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most of the shots occur within much shorter ranges and spaces
- Shooters who select a clearer optic sight picture without room taken up by the larger size FFP reticle
Details on Optic Zoom
The quantity of scope zoom you need on your scope is based on the kind of shooting you plan to do. Just about every kind of rifle glass gives some amount of zoom. The volume of zoom a scope provides is identified by the diameter, thickness, and curves of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The zoom of the optic is the “power” of the glass. This implies what the shooter is checking out through the scope is amplified times the power element of what can typically be seen by human eyes.
Fixed Power Lens Scope Info
A single power rifle optic or scope uses a magnification number designator like 4×32. This indicates the magnification power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this kind of optic can not adjust since it is a fixed power optic.
Adjustable Power Lens Glass
Variable power rifle scopes use enhanced power. The power adjustment is accomplished by using the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
The Power and Range of Rifle Scopes
Here are some advised scope powers and the ranges where they can be effectively used. Highly magnified rifle scope glass will not be as useful as lower magnification rifle scope glass considering too much magnification can be a bad thing. The same concept goes for longer ranges where the shooter needs enough power to see exactly where to best aim the rifle.
About Lens Finishing
All cutting-edge rifle glass lenses are coated. Lens covering is a significant element of a rifle when considering high end rifle optics and scope equipment.
HD Versus ED Lens Coatings
Some glass manufacturers even use “HD” or high-def lense finishings which apply different procedures, polarizations, elements, and chemicals to enhance separate colors and viewable definition through the lens. This high-definition coating is commonly used with more costly, high density lens glass which lowers light’s capability to refract through the lens glass. Some scope corporations use “HD” to describe “ED” signifying extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how certain colors are represented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic deviance or aberration which is similarly called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration is often noticeable over items with hard shapes as light hits the object from specific angles.
Rifle Scope Lens Single Coating Versus Multi-Coating
Different optic lenses can also have different finishings applied to them. All lenses usually have at least some type of treatment or coating applied to them before they are used in a rifle scope or optic. Because the lens isn’t just a raw piece of glass, they require performance enhancing coatings. It becomes part of the carefully tuned optic. It requires a coating to be applied to it so that it will be optimally usable in lots of types of environments, degrees of sunlight (full VS shade), and other shooting conditions.
Single layered lenses have a treatment applied to them which is usually a protective and enhancing multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can protect the lens from scratches while minimizing glare and other less advantageous things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the optic. The quality of a single layered lens depends on the scope maker and how much you spent for it. The scope’s maker and cost are signs of the lens quality.
Some scope producers also make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are layered or “multi” covered. This indicates the lens has multiple treatments applied to the surfaces of the glass. If a lens receives several treatments, it can indicate that a maker is taking numerous actions to fight various environmental elements like an anti-glare finishing, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion finish, followed by a hydrophilic finishing. This additionally doesn’t always indicate the multi-coated lens is better than a single layered lens. Being “much better” depends upon the maker’s lens treatment technology and the quality of materials used in developing the rifle glass.
Glass Lens Hydrophobic Coating
Water on a lens doesn’t help with preserving a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Numerous top of the line and military grade optic companies will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic coating.
Options for Mounting Rifle Glass on Firearms
Installing solutions for scopes come in a couple of choices. There are the basic scope rings which are separately mounted to the scope and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These different types of mounts also generally can be found in quick release variations which use throw levers which permit rifle operators to rapidly mount and remove the glass.
Optic Mounting Solutions with Hex Key Rings
Standard, clamp-on design mounting scope rings use hex head screws to position to the flattop style Picatinny scope mounting rails on the tops of rifles. These varieties of scope mounts use two independent rings to support the optic, and are normally made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum or similar materials which are made for long distance precision shooting. This kind of scope mount is exceptional for rifles which require a resilient, hard use mount which will not shift despite how much the scope is moved about or abuse the rifle takes. These are the design of mounts you really want to have for a devoted optics setup on a reach out and touch someone hunting or competitors firearm which will rarely need to be changed or adjusted. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can additionally be used on the mount’s screws to stop the hex screw threads from wiggling out after they are installed safely in place. An example of these mounting rings are the 30mm style from the Vortex Optics company. The set typically costs around $200 USD
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Optic Ring Mounts
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly connect and take off a scope from a rifle before reattaching it to a different rifle. Numerous scopes can even be swapped out if they all use a compatible style mount. These types of mounts come in handy for rifle platforms which are transported a lot, to swap out the optic from the rifle for protection, or for optics which are used between multiple rifles or are situationally focused.
Rifle Optic Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle optic can ruin a day of shooting and your expensive optic by bringing about fogging and producing residue inside of the scope tube. Most scopes avoid wetness from getting in the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Rifle Glass Gas Purging
Another part of avoiding the accumulation of wetness within the rifle scope’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Given that this area is currently taken up by the gas, the glass is less affected by temperature shifts and pressure distinctions from the external environment which might potentially allow water vapor to permeate 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.
