Description
Rifle Scope Product Details
Einar 4-16X50
4-16×50 1″ Tube Milled from one solid piece of aircraft grade aluminum Fog proof and shock-resistant housing Multi colored illumination Red, Green & Blue reticle Green multi-coated lens, superior light transmission, resolution and scratch resistance 4 – 5 Inch eye relief provides safety from heavy recoil and enables fast target acquisition Metal Mil-Dot reticle Adjustable & lockable external windage & elevation turrets 1″ Scope rings included (2) Limited lifetime manufacturer’s warranty
Rifle Scope Product Features
Limited lifetime manufacturer’s warranty
Adjustable & lockable external windage & elevation turrets
Milled from one solid piece of aircraft grade aluminum
1″ Scope rings included (2)
Multi colored illumination Red, Green & Blue reticle
About the Einar Company
Einar is a premium company for rifle scopes, optics, mounts, and other accessories used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They innovate and make their mounts and related products making the most of building materials which are durable and long lasting. This includes the Einar 4-16X50 by Einar. For more shooting goods, visit their website.
What You Need to Know About Optics
Rifle scopes enable you to exactly aim a rifle at different targets by aligning your eye with the target over a distance. They do this through magnifying the target using a series of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s alignment can be adapted for consideration of separate natural considerations like wind speed and elevation to make up 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 seeing with the optic as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. Many modern-day rifle scopes have around 11 parts which are arranged inside and outside of the scope. These scope parts consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage and elevation turrets or dials, objective focus rings, and other parts. See all eleven parts of scopes.
Rifle Optic Types
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. Choosing the finest type of rifle glass is based around what type of shooting you plan to do.
About First Focal Plane Optics
First focal plane glass (FFP) include the reticle before the magnification lens. This induces the reticle to increase in size based on the level of zoom being used. The benefit is that the reticle measurements are the same at the enhanced distance as they are at the non magnified range. For example, one tick on a mil-dot reticle at one hundred yards without having “zoom” is still the exact same tick at one hundred yards with 5x “zoom”. These kinds of scopes are beneficial for:
- Quick acquisition, far away kinds of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where estimations are small
- Experienced shooters who know their target “hold over” plus “lead” equations for their long gun
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is bigger and requires more visual sight area than a SFP reticle
Info on Second Focal Plane Glass
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) include the reticle behind the magnifying lens. This causes the reticle to remain at the same overall size in connection with the volume of zoom being used. The result is that the reticle measurements alter based on the zoom used to shoot over lengthier ranges given that the markings represent various increments which differ with the magnification. In the FFP illustration with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” 100 yard tick measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick measurement. These particular varieties of optics are useful for:
- Long distance types of shooting where shooters have more time to make ballistic computations
- Shooting where most of the shots happen within shorter spaces and ranges
- Shooters who would like a clearer optic picture without space taken up by the enlarged FFP reticle
Zoom for Glass
The quantity of magnification a scope provides is figured out by the diameter, thickness, 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 Glass
A single power rifle optic comes with a magnification number designator like 4×32. This means the magnification power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this type of optic can not adjust since it is set from the factory.
Info on Variable Power Lens Rifle Optics
Variable power rifle scopes have adjustable power. These types of scopes will list the zoom degree in a configuration such as 2-10×32. These numbers suggest the zoom of the scope can be adjusted in between 2x and 10x power. This additionally utilizes the powers in-between 2 and 10. The power modification is accomplished utilizing the power ring component of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell piece.
Power Levels and Range
Here are some advised scope powers and the ranges where they could be efficiently used. Highly magnified scopes will not be as efficient as lower powered glass since too much magnification can be a bad thing. The exact same concept relates to extended distances where the shooter needs to have sufficient power to see precisely where to best aim the rifle.
Info on Lens Finishing
All modern rifle scope and optic lenses are covered in special coatings. There are different types and qualities of glass lens finishes. When shopping for high end rifle optics and scope units, Lens finishing can be a very important element of a rifle. The glass lenses are one of the most crucial pieces of the glass as they are what your eye looks through while sighting a rifle in on the point of impact. The covering on the lenses protects the lens exterior and even improves anti glare from refracted natural light and color presence.
Details on Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some glass suppliers will also use “HD” or high-def glass coatings that apply various procedures, chemical applications, polarizations, and elements to extract separate color ranges and viewable target definition through the lens. This HD finishing is frequently used with more costly, high density glass which reduces light’s capability to refract by means of the lens glass. Some scope suppliers use “HD” to refer to “ED” suggesting extra-low dispersion glass. ED handles how certain colors are represented on the chroma spectrum and the chromatic aberration or deviance which is also called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration is often noticeable around objects with hard edges and shapes as light hits the object from various angles.
Single Coating Versus Multi-Coating for Rifle Scopes
Different scope lenses can even have different finishes applied to them. All lenses generally have at least some type of treatment or coating applied to them before they are used in a rifle scope or optic. This is due to the fact that the lens isn’t simply a raw piece of glass. It is part of the carefully tuned optic. It needs to have a finishing placed on it so that the lens will be optimally usable in numerous kinds of environments, degrees of sunshine (full light VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
Single coated lenses have a treatment applied to them which is usually a protective and improving multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can preserve the lens from scratches while reducing glare and other less advantageous things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the scope. The quality of a single covered lens depends upon the scope designer and just how much you spent for it. The scope’s maker and cost are indicators of the lens quality.
Some scope makers similarly make it a point to define if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” coated. Being “better” depends on the maker’s lens treatment technology and the quality of products used in constructing the rifle scope.
Hydrophobic Lens Coatings
Water on an optical lens doesn’t assist with keeping a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Lots of top of the line or premium scope makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic finishing. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a fine example of this type of treatment. It treats the exterior of the Steiner glass lens so the water particles can not bind to it or develop surface tension. The outcome is that the water beads slide off of the scope to keep a clear, water free sight picture.
Glass Mounting Options
Mounting approaches for scopes can be found in a few options. There are the basic scope rings which are separately installed to the scope and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These different types of mounts also usually are made in quick release versions which use manual levers which permit rifle shooters to rapidly mount and remove the optics.
Hex Key Scope Rings
Basic, clamp type mounting scope rings use hex head screws to mount to the flattop style Picatinny scope mounting rails on rifles. These kinds of scope mounts use double independent rings to support the optic, and are normally constructed from 7075 T6 billet aluminum or similar materials which are developed for long distance precision shooting. This type of scope mount is great for rifle systems which need to have a durable, unfailing mount which will not shift no matter how much the scope is moved or abuse the rifle takes. These are the design of mounts you want for a devoted optics system on a far away scouting or competitors long gun that will rarely need to be modified or adjusted. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can also be used on screws to prevent the hex screws from wiggling out after they are mounted firmly in position. An example of these mounting rings are the 30mm style from Vortex Optics. The set normally costs around $200 USD
Rifle Optic Mounts with Quick-Release Cantilever Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly connect and remove a scope from a rifle before reattaching it to a different rifle. Multiple scopes can even be swapped out if they all use a similar style mount. These types of mounts are convenient for rifles which are transported a lot, to swap out the optic from the rifle for protecting the scope, or for scopes which are used between several rifles or are situationally focused.
Info on Glass Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Moisture inside your rifle optic can mess up a day of shooting and your pricey optic by causing fogging and creating residue inside of the scope tube. Most scopes avoid moisture from going into the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
What to Know About Optic Tube Gas Purging
Another element of avoiding the accumulation of wetness inside of the rifle scope tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Because this area is already taken up by the gas, the scope is less altered by temp changes and pressure distinctions from the outdoor environment which might potentially enable water vapor to permeate in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to look for.
