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Rifle Scope Product Details
Bushnell Banner Dusk & Dawn Multi-X Reticle Riflescope
Ask any trophy hunter. They’ll tell you more tags are filled in the low-light hours than any other time. Enter the Bushnell Banner 1.5-4.5x 32 Multi-X riflescope, a scope designed to excel in early-morning and late-evening light. Featuring Dusk & Dawn Brightness (DDB) multi-coated lenses for clarity and brightness in low light, you’ll add precious minutes to every hunting day with the Banner Dusk & Dawn series. With one-piece tube design, the Banner Dusk & Dawn line includes a full assortment of specialty scopes for big-game, varmint, .22 rimfire, slug, black powder and turkey hunting.
Rifle Scope Product Features
About this item
Beautiful design and durability built to last
Low-light riflescope with 1.5-4.5x magnification and 32mm objective lens
Dusk & Dawn Brightness (DDB) multicoated lenses for clarity and brightness
Multi-X reticle; 1/4 MOA fingertip windage and elevation adjustments
100-percent waterproof/fogproof construction
Fast-focus eyepiece; measures 10.5 inches long
About the Bushnell Brand
Bushnell is a premium maker for long gun scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other add-ons used for guns like rifles and long guns. They innovate and supply their scopes, mounts, and related products by making the most of building materials which are durable and long lasting. This includes the Bushnell Banner Dusk & Dawn Multi-X Reticle Riflescope by Bushnell. For more shooting items, visit their site.
Information Rifle Optics
Rifle scopes enable you to exactly align a rifle at various targets by aligning your eye with the target over a range. They accomplish this through magnifying the target by utilizing a series of lenses within the scope. The scope’s positioning can be dialed in for consideration of varied ecological considerations like wind speed and elevation increases or decreases to account for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to understand exactly where the bullet will land based upon the sight picture you are viewing through the optic as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. Most modern rifle scopes and optics have around 11 parts which are arranged within and outside of the scope. These optic pieces consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage and elevation turrets, focus rings, and other parts. See all eleven parts of optics.
Rifle Optic Styles
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. Considering the finest type of rifle optic is based on what type of shooting you plan to do.
Info on 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 kinds of shooting
- Shooting circumstances where computations are small
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their aim point “hold over” and also “lead” correlations for their weapon
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is bigger and occupies more visual eyesight room than a SFP reticle
About Second Focal Plane Scopes
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) feature the reticle behind the zoom lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick reticle measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick reticle measurement.
- Long distance styles of shooting where shooters have extra time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most of the shots happen within shorter distances and ranges
- Shooters who would like a clearer optic sight picture without room taken up by the larger sized FFP reticle
Rifle Optic Zoom
The measure of scope magnification you require depends upon the type of shooting you desire to do. Almost every type of rifle glass gives some amount of magnification. The volume of magnification a scope gives is identified by the diameter, thickness, and curves of the lens glass within the rifle optic. The zoom of the optic is the “power” of the scope. This indicates what the shooter is observing through the scope is magnified times the power aspect of what can typically be seen by human eyes.
Single Power Lens Rifle Glass Info
A single power rifle optic will have a zoom number designator like 4×32. This suggests the zoom power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this kind of optic can not change given that it is a set power scope.
Info About Variable Power Lens Optics
Variable power rifle scopes can be tweaked between magnified settings. The power modification is handled by the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
Scope Power and Range Correlation
Here are some recommended scope powers and the ranges where they could be effectively used. Bear in mind that higher magnification optics and scopes will not be as effective as lower magnification level scope and optics because excessive magnification can be a negative thing in certain situations. The same relates to longer ranges where the shooter needs to have adequate power to see precisely where to best aim the rifle at the target.
Info on Glass Lens Finishes
All modern rifle optic and scope lenses are covered in special coatings. There are various types and qualities of glass lens coatings. Lens finishing is an essential element of a rifle’s setup when looking into high-end rifle optics and targeting equipment. The glass lenses are among the most important pieces of the glass due to the fact that they are what your eye sees through while sighting a rifle in on the point of impact. The coating on the lenses safeguards the lens surface area and even improves anti glare capabilities from refracted sunlight and color discernibility.
HD Versus ED Rifle Scope Lens Coatings
Some glass manufacturers additionally use “HD” or high-def glass coverings that make the most of different processes, rare earth compounds, components, and polarizations to enhance a wide range of color ranges and viewable target definition through the lens. This high-def finish is commonly used with more costly, high density glass which reduces light’s opportunity to refract through the lens glass. Some scope makers use “HD” to describe “ED” signifying extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how colors are represented on the chroma spectrum and the chromatic deviance or aberration which is also called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration may be visible over items with defined outlines as light hits the item from certain angles.
Single Finish Versus Multi-Coating
Different optic lenses can likewise have various coatings applied to them. All lenses typically have at least some type of treatment or covering applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic.
Single layered lenses have a treatment applied to them which is generally a protective and improving multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can preserve the lens from scratches while decreasing glare and other less helpful things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the optic. The quality of a single coated lens depends on the scope manufacturer and the amount you spent on it. Both the manufacturer and amount are indications of the lens quality.
Some scope producers also make it a point to define if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” covered. This indicates the lens has multiple treatments applied to the surfaces. If a lens gets multiple treatments, it can show that a maker is taking several steps to fight different natural factors like an anti-glare finish, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion covering, followed by a hydrophilic finishing. This additionally doesn’t necessarily imply the multi-coated lens will perform much better than a single layered lens. Being “much better” hinges on the maker’s lens treatment technology and the quality of products used in creating the rifle optic.
Hydrophobic Glass Lens Finish
Water on a scope’s lens doesn’t assist with preserving a clear sight picture through a scope in any way. Numerous top of the line and high-end optic makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic covering. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a fine example of this type of treatment. It deals with the exterior surfaces of the Steiner scope lens so the H2O molecules can not bind to it or produce surface tension. The result is that the water beads roll off of the scope to preserve a clear, water free sight picture.
Choices for Mounting Rifle Scopes on Long Guns
Installing solutions for scopes can be found in a couple of options. There are the basic scope rings which are individually mounted to the optic and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These various kinds of mounts also typically come in quick release variations which use manual levers which allow rifle shooters to rapidly mount and remove the scopes.
Hex Key Rifle Glass Ring Mounting Solutions
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 two separate rings to support the optic, and are made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are created for long range accuracy shooting. This type of scope mount is wonderful for rifles which need a durable, rock solid mounting solution which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abused.
Optic Mounting Solutions with Quick-Release Cantilever Rings
These kinds of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to rapidly detach a scope from a rifle and reattach it to a different rifle. Multiple scopes can also be swapped out if they all use a complementary style mount. The quick detach mount style is CNC crafted from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers fasten securely to a flat top style Picatinny rail. This allows the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, removed from the rifle, and remounted while retaining the original sighting settings. These types of mounts are useful and practical for rifles which are moved around a lot, to take off the glass from the rifle for protection, or for aiming systems which are utilized in between a number of rifles. An example of this mount type is the 30mm mount from Vortex Optics. It generally costs around $250 USD
Info Around Glass Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Moisture inside your rifle optic can wreck a day on the range and your highly-priced optic by resulting in fogging and making residue within the scope tube. Most scopes protect against moisture from getting in the optical tube with a series of sealing O-rings which are waterproof. Usually, these water resistant optics can be immersed beneath 20 or 30 feet of water before the water pressure can force moisture past the O-rings. This should be plenty of moisture prevention for conventional use rifles, unless you plan on taking your rifle on a boat and are worried about the scope still working if it goes overboard and you can still recover the rifle.
Glass Gas Purging
Another element of avoiding the accumulation of wetness inside of the rifle optic tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Considering that this area is already taken up by the gas, the glass is less influenced by temp changes and pressure distinctions from the external environment which could possibly enable water vapor to permeate in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to seek out.
