Description
Rifle Scope Product Details
BARSKA AC11704 Multi-Reticle Electro Reflex Sight Green / Red Reticle with with Picatinny / Weaver Style Base, 1x33mm
The Barska Multi-Reticle Red and Green Electro Sight is a multi-reticle panoramic sight that is built with a standard 5/8″ mount and is ideal for small caliber rifles, handguns, shotguns, and crossbows. It features 4 different red and green reticle patterns, rheostat illumination setting, and is powered by a lithium battery. With a screen size of 22 x 33mm, this sight provides unlimited eye relief and an almost unlimited field-of-view.
Rifle Scope Product Features
Sport type: Hunting
Easy Attachment: The integrated standard 5/8″ mount enables attachment to many different rail systems.
Reticle Options: The red/green dot sight provides 4 different illuminated reticle patterns with rheostat illumination settings.
Accessories: The sight comes with set of picatinny / weaver style mount, lens cloth, and lens covers.
About the BARSKA Company
BARSKA is a premium maker for firearm scopes, optics, mounts, and other accessories used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They create and manufacture their mounts, scopes, and related products by choosing materials which are resilient and long lasting. This includes the BARSKA AC11704 Multi-Reticle Electro Reflex Sight Green / Red Reticle with with Picatinny / Weaver Style Base, 1x33mm by BARSKA. For additional shooting products, visit their site.
Info About Scopes
Rifle scopes enable you to exactly align a rifle at various targets by lining up your eye with the target over a distance. They accomplish this through magnification by employing a series of lenses within the scope. The scope’s alignment can be dialed in for consideration of separate environmental aspects 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 upon the sight picture you are seeing via the scope as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the target. Many modern rifle scopes have about 11 parts which are found within and externally on the optic. These scope parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, elevation dials or turrets, focus rings, and other components. See all eleven parts of scopes.
Rifle Optic Styles
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. Deciding upon the finest type of rifle glass is based on what type of shooting you plan to do.
First Focal Plane Optics
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature 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 estimations are minimal
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their aim point “hold over” and also “lead” relationships for their weapon
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is enlarged and occupies more visual sight space than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Scopes
Second focal plane optics (SFP) come with the reticle to the rear of the magnification lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick.
- Long distance kinds of shooting where shooters have extra time to make ballistic estimations
- Shooting where most shots occur within much shorter ranges and spaces
- Shooters who choose a clearer optic picture without room taken up by the larger size FFP reticle
Rifle Glass Magnification
The measure of scope magnification you need depends on the sort of shooting you wish to do. Pretty much every kind of rifle scope delivers some degree of zoom. The quantity of magnification a scope provides is identified by the diameter, density, and curvatures of the lenses within the rifle scope. The zoom of the optic is the “power” of the scope. This means what the shooter is aiming at through the scope is amplified times the power element of what can typically be seen by human eyes.
Fixed Single Power Lens Glass Info
A single power rifle scope or optic will have a magnification number designator like 4×32. This means the zoom power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this type of scope can not change considering that it is set from the factory.
About Variable Power Lens Scopes
Variable power rifle scopes have adjustable power. It will list the magnification level in a format like 2-10×32. These numbers suggest the zoom of the scope could be changed in between 2x and 10x power. This always incorporates the powers in-between 2 and 10. The power shift is accomplished by applying the power ring component of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
Power and Range Correlations
Here are some suggested scope powers and the ranges where they could be effectively used. Remember that higher magnification optics and scopes will not be as efficient as lower powered optics and scopes since too much magnification can be a negative thing in certain situations. The exact same idea relates to longer distances where the shooter needs to have sufficient power to see precisely where to properly aim the rifle at the target.
About Optic Lens Finishes
All cutting-edge rifle optic and scope lenses are layered. Lens finish is a significant aspect of a shooting platform when looking into high end rifle optics and scope setups.
Info on Scope Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some rifle glass makers also use “HD” or high-def lens finishes which use different procedures, elements, compounds, and polarizations to extract numerous colors and viewable target visibility through the lens. This HD finishing is often used with more costly high density lens glass which decreases light’s chance to refract by means of the lens glass. Some scope brands 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 aberration or deviance which is also called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration may be visible over items with well defined outlines as light hits the item from certain angles.
Single Covering Versus Multi-Coating
Various optic lenses can also have various coatings applied to them. All lenses typically have at least some type of treatment or coating applied to them before they are used in a rifle scope or optic assembly. This is since the lens isn’t just a raw piece of glass. It becomes part of the carefully tuned optic. It must have a finishing placed on it so that the lens will be efficiently functional in numerous kinds of environments, degrees of sunlight (full light VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
Single covered lenses have a treatment applied to them which is usually a protective and enhancing multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can shield the lens from scratches while decreasing glare and other less advantageous 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 spent on it. Both the manufacturer and amount are signs of the lens quality.
Some scope makers likewise make it a point to define if their optic lenses are layered or “multi” coated. This suggests the lens has had several treatments applied to the surfaces. If a lens receives numerous treatments, it can establish that a maker is taking several steps to fight various environmental factors like an anti-glare coating, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion coating, followed by a hydrophilic finishing. This also doesn’t necessarily indicate the multi-coated lens will perform much better than a single covered lens. Being “much better” depends on the maker’s lens treatment innovation and the quality of products used in creating the rifle scope.
What to Know About Hydrophobic Finishing
Water on an optic’s lens doesn’t support keeping a clear sight picture through an optic whatsoever. Lots of top of the line and high-end optic producers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic covering. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a good example of this kind of treatment. It treats the surface area of the Steiner glass lens so the H2O particles can not bind to it or produce surface tension. The outcome is that the water beads roll off of the scope to preserve a clear, water free sight picture.
Alternatives for Mounting Rifle Glass on Long Guns
Installing options for scopes can be found in a couple of options. There are the standard scope rings which are individually mounted to the optic and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These various kinds of mounts also typically are made in quick release versions which use toss levers which permit rifle shooters to quickly install and dismount the glass.
Hex Key Rifle Optic Rings
Normal, clamp style mounting scope rings use hex head screws to mount to the flattop design Picatinny scope mount rails on rifles. These types of scope mounts use two different rings to support the optic, and are made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which is developed for long distance accuracy shooting. This type of scope install is wonderful for rifles which require a durable, sound mounting solution which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abuse the rifle takes.
Quick-Release Cantilever Optic Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly connect and remove a scope from a rifle. If they all use a comparable design mount, multiple scopes can often be switched out on the range. The quick detach mount style is CNC machined from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers fasten securely to a flat top type Picatinny rail. This lets the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, removed from the rifle, and remounted while keeping accuracy. These types of mounts are useful and practical for rifles which are transported a lot, to remove the glass from the rifle for protection, or for sight systems which are adopted between multiple rifles. An example of this mount style is the 30mm mount designed by the Vortex Optics manufacturer. It usually costs around $250 USD
Sealing and Gas Purging for Optic Tubes
Wetness inside your rifle scope can mess up a day of shooting and your pricey optic by bringing about fogging and developing 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 waterproof.
Gas Purged Scope Tubes
Another element of preventing the buildup of moisture within the rifle scope tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Given that this area is currently occupied by the gas, the glass is less impacted by temp changes and pressure distinctions from the external environment which may possibly permit 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.
