Description
Rifle Scope Product Details
Hatsan Optima 4-16X44E-SFT Scope
Airgun and firearm rated. 4x – 16x zoom. 44mm objective w/ integrated angled sun shade. Side focus parallax adjustment. Dovetail rings included.
Rifle Scope Product Features
4-16x Zoom Side Focus Parallax
Side Focus Parallax
30mm tube diameter
Dovetail mounts included
1/8 MOA click adjustments
About the Hatsan Brand
Hatsan is a premium producer for rifle scopes, optics, mounts, and other components used for guns like rifles and long guns. They innovate and build their products by choosing building materials which are long lasting and resilient. This includes the Hatsan Optima 4-16X44E-SFT Scope by Hatsan. For more shooting items, visit their website.
Rifle Optic Details
Rifle scopes permit you to specifically aim a rifle at different targets by lining up your eye with the target over a range. They accomplish this through magnification using a set of lenses within the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adapted to account for numerous natural considerations like wind speed and elevation increases or decreases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to help shooters understand exactly where the bullet will hit based on the sight picture you are seeing using the scope as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the target. The majority of modern rifle scopes have about eleven parts which are found inside and outside of the scope body. These parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, adjustment dials or turrets, objective focus rings, and other elements. Learn about the eleven parts of scopes.
The Types of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Finding the best type of rifle scope is based around what type of shooting you plan on doing.
About First Focal Plane Scopes
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the zoom lens. These styles of scopes are helpful for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance types of shooting
- Shooting circumstances where calculations are minimal
- Experienced shooters who recognize their target “hold over” and “lead” ratios for their long guns
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is bigger and uses up more visual eyesight room than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Glass
Second focal plane glass (SFP) feature the reticle to the rear of the magnifying lens. This triggers the reticle to remain at the very same overall size in relation to the volume of magnification being used. The outcome is that the reticle measurements adapt based upon the magnification employed to shoot over longer distances due to the fact that the reticle measurements represent distinct increments which fluctuate with the magnification level. In the FFP example with the SFP glass, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick measurement. These sorts of scopes are convenient for:
- Far away forms of shooting where shooters have additional time to make ballistic computations
- Shooting where most of the shots occur within much shorter spaces and ranges
- Shooters who desire a clearer optic sight picture with less space used up by the enlarged FFP reticle
About Rifle Glass Magnification
The extent of scope magnification you need depends upon the sort of shooting you would like to do. Pretty much every style of rifle glass provides some degree of zoom. The level of magnification a scope gives is determined by the size, density, and curvatures of the lens glass inside of the rifle scope. The zoom of the optic is the “power” of the opic. This indicates what the shooter is looking at through the scope is magnified times the power aspect of what can generally be seen by human eyes.
Fixed Single Power Lens Rifle Scope Info
A single power rifle optic comes with a zoom number designator like 4×32. This indicates the magnification power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this kind of optic can not fluctuate since it is fixed.
Adjustable Power Lens Scopes
Variable power rifle scopes use variable power levels. The power modification is performed by making use of 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 power settings and the ranges where they may be successfully used. Remember that high power optics and scopes will not be as efficient as lower powered optics and scopes due to the fact that excessive zoom can be a negative thing in certain situations. The same idea goes for longer ranges where the shooter needs sufficient power to see where to best aim the rifle.
Lens Finishing for Rifle Glass
All contemporary rifle scope lenses are coated. There are different types and qualities of lens finishes. When shopping for luxury rifle scope setups, Lens finish can be a critical aspect of defining the rifle’s capability. The lenses are among the most important components of the glass since they are what your eye looks through while sighting a rifle in on the target. The finishing on the lenses protects the lens surface area and even assists with anti glare capabilities from refracted light and color perception.
HD Versus ED Lens Coatings
Some scope makers also use “HD” or high-definition lens coatings which use various methods, polarizations, chemicals, and aspects to draw out different colors and viewable definition through the lens. Some scope producers use “HD” to refer to “ED” indicating extra-low dispersion glass.
What to Know About Single Coating Versus Multi-Coating
Different scope lenses can even have various finishings applied to them. All lenses normally have at least some kind of treatment or finish applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic. Because the lens isn’t simply a raw piece of glass, they require performance enhancing coatings. It becomes part of the finely tuned optic. It requires a coating to be applied to it so that it will be efficiently functional in lots of types of environments, degrees of sunlight (full light VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
This lens treatment can safeguard 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 coated lens depends on the scope maker and how much you paid for it.
Some scope makers likewise make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are covered or “multi” coated. This implies the lens has numerous treatments applied to the surfaces of the glass. If a lens gets numerous treatments, it can show that a producer is taking several actions to fight different environmental elements like an anti-glare finish, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion finishing, followed by a hydrophilic coating. This additionally does not always mean the multi-coated lens is much better than a single coated lens. Being “better” hinges on the maker’s lens treatment techniques and the quality of components used in constructing the rifle scope.
Rifle Glass Lens Anti-water Finishing
Water on a lens does not assist with preserving a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Lots of top of the line and military grade optic companies will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic finish.
Optic Installing Options
Mounting options for scopes can be found in a few choices. There are the standard scope rings which are individually installed to the optic and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These different kinds of mounts also usually are made in quick release variations which use manual levers which enable rifle operators to quickly install and dismount the glass.
Rifle Glass Mounting Solutions with Hex Key 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 is designed for long range accuracy shooting. This type of scope mount is great for rifles which require a resilient, sound mounting solution which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abuse the rifle takes.
Rifle Scope Mounting Solutions with Quick-Release Cantilever Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly attach and take off a scope from a rifle before reattaching it to a different rifle. Numerous scopes can also be swapped out if they all use a similar design mount. These types of mounts come in handy for rifles which are transported a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protecting the scope, or for scopes which are used between multiple rifles.
Info on Rifle Glass Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle scope can destroy a day of shooting and your pricey optic by causing fogging and developing residue inside of the scope tube. The majority of scopes avoid moisture from getting in the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Gas Purged Rifle Optic Tubes
Another component of preventing the accumulation of moisture inside of the rifle optic’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Because this area is currently occupied by the gas, the optic is less altered by temp changes and pressure variations from the outside environment which may potentially permit water vapor to leak in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to look for.
