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Rifle Scope Product Details
CCOP Tactical Mini Rifle Scope 3x-12x 30mm Mil Dot Reticle – SCP-31244si
Type/name: SCP-31244SI Magnification: 3X-12X Tube Dia: 30mm Objective Dia: 44mm Field of view @100yards: 9.2-36.5ft Eye Relief: 4″-3.5″ Exit Pupil: 3.7-14.7mm Click Value: 1/8 Length: 357mm Reticle: Mil Dot Type IR: R & G IR W/E: 25′ Focus Type: side focus
Rifle Scope Product Features
About the CCOP Company
CCOP is a premium supplier for long gun scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other components used for guns like rifles and long guns. They innovate and make their scopes, mounts, and related products by making the most of elements which are long lasting and resilient. This includes the CCOP Tactical Mini Rifle Scope 3x-12x 30mm Mil Dot Reticle – SCP-31244si by CCOP. For more shooting items, visit their website.
What You Need to Know About Scopes
Rifle scopes enable you to precisely aim a rifle at various targets by aligning your eye with the target at range. They do this through magnification by making use of a series of lenses within the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adjusted to account for many ecological things like wind speed and elevation to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to understand exactly where the bullet will land based upon the sight picture you are seeing through the optic as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended point of impact. Many contemporary rifle optics have around eleven parts which are arranged internally and on the exterior of the optic. These parts consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage and elevation dials or turrets, objective focus rings, and other parts. Learn about the eleven parts of optics.
Rifle Glass Styles
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” style of scopes. The type of focal plane a scope has decides where the reticle or crosshair is located in regard to the optic’s zoom. It literally implies the reticle is behind or ahead of the magnifying lens of the optic. Selecting the very best kind of rifle glass is based on what form of hunting or shooting you plan on undertaking.
Info on First Focal Plane Glass
First focal plane glass (FFP) feature the reticle before the zoom lens. This causes the reticle to increase in size based upon the amount of magnification being used. The outcome is that the reticle measurements are the same at the amplified range as they are at the non magnified range. For instance, one tick on a mil-dot reticle at one hundred yards with no “zoom” is still the very same tick at 100 yards with 5x “zoom”. These types of scopes work for:
- Quick acquisition, far away kinds of shooting
- Shooting situations where estimations are minimal
- Experienced shooters who know their aim point “hold over” as well as “lead” correlations for their firearm
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is enlarged and takes up more visual sight area than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Glass Details
Second focal plane optics (SFP) include the reticle behind the magnification lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick reticle measurement.
- Far away types of shooting where shooters have increased time to make ballistic estimations
- Shooting where most of the shots take place within shorter distances and ranges
- Shooters who would like a clearer optic picture with less area used up by the larger sized FFP reticle
Rifle Scope Zoom
The amount of magnification a scope offers is determined by the size, thickness, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The zoom of the scope is the “power” of the scope.
Fixed Single Power Lens Glass
A single power rifle scope comes with a magnification number designator like 4×32. This suggests the zoom power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this kind of optic can not change since it is set from the factory.
Info About Adjustable Power Lens Rifle Glass
Variable power rifle scopes can be adjusted between magnification power levels. These types of scopes will note the zoom amount in a configuration like 2-10×32. These numbers mean the zoom of the scope can be changed between 2x and 10x power. This always involves the powers in-between 2 and 10. The power adjustment is accomplished utilizing the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell piece.
Rifle Glass Power Level and Ranges
Here are some recommended scope power levels and the ranges where they could be successfully used. Always remember that higher power glass will not be as efficient as lower magnification level optics and scopes since excessive magnification can be a bad thing. The same idea relates to extended ranges where the shooter needs adequate power to see where to properly aim the rifle at the target.
About Lens Finish
All modern-day rifle optic and scope lenses are layered. There are different types and qualities of glass finishings. Lens finish can be a crucial element of a rifle’s setup when looking into luxury rifle optics and scope equipment. The lenses are one of the most essential parts of the optic considering 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 exterior and even assists with anti glare capabilities from excess daylight and color visibility.
HD Versus ED Lens Coatings
Some scope brands also use “HD” or high-definition lens coatings which use various techniques, elements, polarizations, and chemicals to draw out a wide range of colors and viewable quality through the lens. Some scope manufacturers use “HD” to refer to “ED” meaning extra-low dispersion glass.
Single Finish Versus Multi-Coating for Rifle Scopes
Various optic lenses can also have different coverings used to them. All lenses generally have at least some type of treatment or covering used to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic.
Single covered lenses have a treatment applied to them which is typically a protective and enhancing multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can preserve the lens from scratches while lowering glare and other less advantageous things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the scope. The quality of a single layered lens depends upon the scope developer and how much you spent on it. Both are indicators of the lens quality.
Some scope makers also make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are layered or “multi” coated. This suggests the lens has had several treatments applied to the surfaces of the glass. If a lens gets multiple treatments, it can show that a producer is taking numerous actions to combat various environmental aspects like an anti-glare finishing, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion covering, followed by a hydrophilic coating. This also does not necessarily mean the multi-coated lens will perform much better than a single layered lens. Being “much better” hinges on the maker’s lens treatment solutions and the quality of glass used in constructing the rifle optic.
About Anti-water Finish
Water on a lens does not improve maintaining a clear sight picture through a scope whatsoever. Numerous top of the line or high-end optic producers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic covering. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a fine example of this type of treatment. It provides protection for the exterior surfaces of the Steiner scope lens so the water molecules can not bind to it or create surface tension. The outcome is that the water beads slide off of the scope to preserve a clear, water free sight picture.
Rifle Optic Installation Alternatives
Mounting options for scopes are available in a couple of choices. There are the standard scope rings which are individually mounted to the optic and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These different kinds of mounts also typically come in quick release variations which use manual levers which permit rifle operators to quickly install and dismount the scope.
Hex Key Glass Rings
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 separate 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 mount is fine for rifles which need a resilient, sound mounting solution which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abused.
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Optic Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly take off a scope and attach it to a different rifle. Multiple scopes can also be swapped out if they all use a similar style mount. These types of mounts come in handy for rifle platforms which are carried a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protection, or for optics which are used between numerous rifles.
Info on Glass Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle glass can ruin a day on the range and your costly optic by resulting in fogging and generating residue within the scope’s tube. Many scopes prevent wetness from entering the optical tube with a series of sealing O-rings which are waterproof. Generally, these water resistant scopes can be submerged under 20 or 30 feet of water before the water pressure can force moisture past the O-rings. This should be more than enough humidity avoidance for common use rifles, unless you plan on taking your rifle on your motorboat and are worried about the scope still performing if it is submerged in water and you can still recover the firearm.
Details on Glass Tube Gas Purging
Another element of preventing the accumulation of wetness inside of the rifle scope’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Given that this space is already occupied by the gas, the scope is less affected by temp alterations 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 exist. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to seek out.
