Description
Rifle Scope Product Details
Hawke 12210 XB1 3 x 32 Riflescope
Riflescope
Rifle Scope Product Features
1 inch mono-tube chassis for superior strength
Designed for speeds of 315 feet per second
BRC compatible, can be calculated for different FPS
About the Hawke Brand
Hawke is a premium maker for firearm scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other add-ons used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They design and manufacture their mounts and related products by choosing materials which are resilient and long lasting. This includes the Hawke 12210 XB1 3 x 32 Riflescope by Hawke. For additional shooting products, visit their site.
Optic Details
Rifle scopes enable you to specifically aim a rifle at different targets by aligning your eye with the target at range. They accomplish this through zoom by utilizing a set of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adapted to account for different environmental things like wind speed and elevation decreases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to help shooters understand precisely where the bullet will hit based on the sight picture you are seeing via the optic as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended point of impact. Many modern-day rifle optics have about 11 parts which are found within and on the exterior of the scope body. These scope parts consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage dials, focus rings, and other components. See all eleven parts of optics.
About Rifle Glass Types
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Going for the best type of rifle optic is based around what type of shooting you plan to do.
First Focal Plane Glass
Focal plane scopes (FFP) include the reticle in front of the zoom lens. These types of scopes are useful for:
- Quick acquisition, far away types of shooting
- Shooting circumstances where estimations are marginal
- Experienced shooters who recognize their target “hold over” and also “lead” equations for their long guns
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is enlarged and uses up more visual sight space than a SFP reticle
About Second Focal Plane Glass
Second focal plane optics (SFP) include the reticle to the rear of the magnification lens. This causes the reticle to stay at the very same scale in relation to the amount of zoom being used. The effect is that the reticle measurements alter based on the magnification applied to shoot over greater distances considering that the markings represent distinct increments which can vary with the magnification. In the FFP example with the SFP glass, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick. These particular varieties of optics work for:
- Far away styles of shooting where shooters have increased time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most shots occur within much shorter ranges and spaces
- Shooters who select a clearer optic picture without space used up by the larger sized FFP reticle
Ins and Outs of Rifle Optic Zoom
The quantity of magnification a scope supplies is determined by the diameter, thickness, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The magnification of the scope is the “power” of the scope.
Single Power Lens Glass Facts
A single power rifle optic will have a zoom number designator like 4×32. This means the magnification power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this kind of optic can not fluctuate since it is a fixed power optic.
About Variable Power Lens Optics
Variable power rifle scopes use variable power levels. The power modification is performed by the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
Rifle Optic Power Level and Range Correlation
Here are some suggested scope power settings and the distances where they could be efficiently used. High power glass will not be as efficient as lower magnification rifle scope glass considering that too much magnification can be a negative aspect depending on your shooting distance. The same applies to longer distances where the shooter needs to have increased power to see precisely where to properly aim the rifle.
Details on Rifle Glass Lens Finish
All present day rifle glass lenses are coated. Lens coating is a vital element of a shooting platform when looking into high end rifle optics and scope equipment.
HD Versus ED Lenses
Some optic makers additionally use “HD” or high-definition lense coatings which take advantage of various processes, polarizations, components, and chemicals to enhance numerous colors and viewable target visibility through the lens. This high-def finishing is commonly used with more costly, high density lens glass which lowers light’s capability to refract by means of the lens glass. Some scope producers use “HD” to refer to “ED” suggesting extra-low dispersion glass. ED handles how colors are presented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic deviance or aberration which is also called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration is often obvious over things with defined outlines as light hits the object from certain angles.
What to Know About Single Finishing Versus Multi-Coating
Different optic lenses can even have different coatings applied to them. All lenses generally have at least some type of treatment or finishing applied to them before being used in a rifle scope or optic assembly. Since the lens isn’t simply a raw piece of glass, they require performance enhancing coatings. It becomes part of the carefully tuned optic. It requires a coating to be applied to it so that the lens will be efficiently functional in lots of types of environments, degrees of light (full light VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
Single covered lenses have a treatment applied to them which is usually a protective and boosting multi-purpose treatment. 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 upon the scope company and just how much you paid for it. Both the manufacturer and amount are indications of the lens quality.
Some scope makers similarly make it a point to define if their optic lenses are covered 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 Coating for Rifle Scopes
Water on a scope’s lens doesn’t improve maintaining a clear sight picture through an optic in any way. Numerous top of the line and high-end scope producers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic finish. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a fine example of this type of treatment. It provides protection for the exterior 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 move off of the scope to maintain a clear, water free sight picture.
Options for Mounting Optics on Firearms
Installing solutions for scopes are available in a couple of choices. There are the basic scope rings which are separately mounted to the scope and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These various kinds of mounts also usually can be found in quick release versions which use throw levers which allow rifle shooters to rapidly mount and remove the scopes.
Hex Key Scope Rings
Normal, clamp design mounting scope rings use hex head screws to mount to the flattop design Picatinny scope installation rails on rifles. These types of scope mounts use a couple of different rings to support the optic, and are often made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are created for long range accuracy shooting. This type of scope install is great for rifles which need a long lasting, rock solid mounting solution which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abuse the rifle takes.
Rifle Glass 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. Several scopes can also be swapped out if they all use a similar style mount. These types of mounts are handy for rifles which are carried a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protecting the scope, or for scopes which are used in between several rifles or are situationally focused.
What to Know About Glass Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle optic can destroy a day of shooting and your pricey optic by causing fogging and producing residue inside of the scope tube. A lot of scopes avoid wetness from going into the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are waterproof.
Glass Gas Purging
Another component of preventing the buildup of wetness within the rifle scope’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Because this area is already taken up by the gas, the scope is less influenced by climate shifts and pressure distinctions from the outside environment which could potentially permit water vapor to leak in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to seek out.
