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Rifle Scope Product Details
Burris Veracity Riflescope
The Burris Veracity combines proven Burris engineering with state-of-the-art refinements to help you capture prairie predators, elusive elk, or dangerous game. The new five times zoom system yields a wide field of view and powerful ranging capabilities. Front focal plane reticles allow you to accurately compute distances at any magnification, while giving you both trajectory and windage reference points. Accurate and repeatable 1/4 MOA adjustments allow for fine-tuning and side adjustable parallax lets you instantly adjust while maintaining your shooting position.
Rifle Scope Product Features
The Veracity 3-15x50mm riflescope is designed to help you capture prairie predators, elusive elk, or dangerous game.
Its 5-times zoom system provides a wide field of view and powerful ranging.
The front focal plane reticle design allows accurate computation of distances at any magnification.
Accurate and repeatable quarter-MOA adjustments allow for fine-tuning
Side-adjustable parallax lets you instantly correct parallax while maintaining your shooting position.
About the Burris Manufacturer
Burris is a premium company for long gun scopes, optics, mounts, and other accessories used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They design and build their mounts, scopes, and related products working with materials which are long lasting and durable. This includes the Burris Veracity Riflescope by Burris. For more shooting goods, visit their site.
What You Need to Know About Optics
Rifle scopes allow you to specifically align a rifle at various targets by lining up your eye with the target at range. They do this through magnifying the target by using a series of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adjusted for the consideration of many natural things like wind and elevation to account for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to help the shooter understand exactly where the bullet will land based on the sight picture you are viewing through the optic as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. The majority of modern-day rifle scopes and optics have around eleven parts which are found inside and outside of the scope. These optic pieces consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, elevation turrets, objective focus rings, and other parts. Learn about the eleven parts of rifle optics.
Rifle Optic Types
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Deciding on the finest type of rifle glass depends on what type of shooting you plan to do.
First Focal Plane Glass
First focal plane glass (FFP) come with the reticle in front of the zoom lens. This causes the reticle to increase in size based on the extent of magnification being used. The outcome is that the reticle measurements are the same at the magnified distance as they are at the non amplified distance. One tick on a mil-dot reticle at 100 yards with no “zoom” is still the identical tick at 100 yards by using 5x “zoom”. These types of scopes work for:
- Quick acquisition, far away kinds of shooting
- Shooting situations where computations are minimal
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their target “hold over” plus “lead” ratios for their long guns
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is bigger and occupies more visual sight room than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Optics
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” one hundred yard tick measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick measurement.
- Long distance types of shooting where shooters have increased time to make ballistic estimations
- Shooting where most of the shots take place within shorter proximities and ranges
- Shooters who desire a clearer optic sight picture without area used up by the larger size FFP reticle
Ins and Outs of Rifle Glass Magnification
The quantity of magnification a scope supplies 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.
Info About Fixed Single Power Lens Scopes
A single power rifle scope and optic uses a magnification number designator like 4×32. This implies the zoom power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this type of scope can not fluctuate since it is set from the factory.
Info on Variable Power Lens Rifle Glass
Variable power rifle scopes use variable power levels. The power change is accomplished by the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
Power Levels and Range
Here are some suggested scope powers and the ranges where they can be effectively used. Consider that high power optics and scopes will not be as efficient as lower magnification level glass due to the fact that excessive magnification can be a detractor. The same idea applies to longer ranges where the shooter needs to have sufficient power to see precisely where to best aim the rifle at the target.
Scope Lens Covering
All top of the line rifle scope and optic lenses are coated. Lens finish is an important element of a shooting platform when buying high end rifle optics and scope equipment.
Details on Optic Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some rifle glass companies also use “HD” or high-def lense finishes which take advantage of various processes, components, chemical substances, and polarizations to enhance different colors and viewable definition through lenses. This HD finishing is commonly used with more costly, high density glass which decreases light’s potential to refract through the lens glass. Some scope makers use “HD” to describe “ED” indicating extra-low dispersion glass. ED handles 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 can be obvious over items with hard edges and outlines as light hits the item from various angles.
Single Finish Versus Multi-Coating for Rifle Glass
Various optic lenses can likewise have various coverings used to them. All lenses generally have at least some type of treatment or finishing applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic.
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 manufacturer and how much you paid for it.
Some scope producers also make it a point to define if their optic lenses are layered or “multi” covered. This implies the lens has had multiple treatments applied to them. If a lens gets numerous treatments, it can indicate that a maker is taking numerous actions to fight various natural factors like an anti-glare covering, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion coating, followed by a hydrophilic coating. This additionally doesn’t necessarily indicate the multi-coated lens is better than a single layered lens. Being “much better” depends on the manufacturer’s lens treatment solutions and the quality of glass used in constructing the rifle glass.
Anti-water Lens Covering
Water on a lens doesn’t assist with maintaining 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 hydrophilic or hydrophobic anti-water finishing.
Rifle Glass Installation Alternatives
Installing solutions for scopes can be found in a couple of options. There are the standard scope rings which are separately installed to the scope and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These various kinds of mounts also typically are made in quick release variations which use throw levers which enable rifle shooters to rapidly install and remove the scopes.
Hex Key Rifle Optic Rings
Standard, clamp design 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 a couple of separate rings to support the optic, and are often made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which is designed for long distance accuracy shooting. This type of scope install is great for rifles which need a durable, rock solid mount which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abuse the rifle takes.
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Glass Ring Mounts
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly remove a scope from a rifle and reattach it to a different rifle. Several scopes can also be switched out if they all use a complementary style mount. The quick detach design is CNC crafted from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers connect securely to a flat top design Picatinny rail. This lets the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, taken off of the rifle, and remounted back on the rifle while maintaining the original sighting settings. These kinds of mounts come in beneficial for shooting platforms which are transferred between vehicles a lot, to remove the scope glass from the rifle for protection, or for scopes which are chosen for use between a number of rifles. An example of this mount style is the 30mm mount designed by Vortex Optics. It usually costs around $250 USD
Info Around Scope Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle glass can spoil a day of shooting and your pricey optic by resulting in fogging and developing residue inside of the scope’s tube. A lot of scopes prevent moisture from going into the optical tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant. Usually, these water resistant optics can be immersed under 20 or 30 feet of water before the water pressure can push moisture past the O-rings. This should be ample humidity prevention for conventional use rifles for hunting and sporting purposes, unless you plan on taking your rifle on boats and are concerned about the scope still working if it goes overboard and you can still rescue the rifle.
Gas Purged Scope Tubes
Another element of avoiding the accumulation of wetness inside of the rifle optic’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Considering that this area is currently occupied by the gas, the optic is less influenced by temperature alterations and pressure differences from the external environment which may potentially permit water vapor to leak 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.
