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Rifle Scope Product Details
HAWKE 2pc Match Series Weaver Scope Rings, 1in, High, QuickPeep HM7103
Hawke Sport Optics 2pc Match Series Weaver Scope Rings, 1in, High, QuickPeep 22114
Rifle Scope Product Features
About the Hawke Scope Maker
Hawke is a premium producer for weapon scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other accessories used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They innovate and manufacture their products working with materials which are durable and long lasting. This includes the HAWKE 2pc Match Series Weaver Scope Rings, 1in, High, QuickPeep HM7103 by Hawke. For additional shooting products, visit their website.
Scope Facts
Rifle scopes permit you to specifically align a rifle at different targets by lining up your eye with the target over a distance. They do this through zoom by making use of a series of lenses within the scope. The scope’s alignment can be adjusted to account for various environmental aspects like wind and elevation decreases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to understand exactly where the bullet will land 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 scopes have around 11 parts which are located inside and outside of the optic. These parts consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, modification dials or turrets, objective focus rings, and other elements. Learn about the eleven parts of rifle scopes.
The Types of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. Considering the finest type of rifle scope is based around what type of shooting you plan on doing.
First Focal Plane Scope Details
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the zoom lens. These styles of scopes are helpful for:
- Quick acquisition, far away kinds of shooting
- Shooting situations where computations are very little
- Experienced shooters who know their aim point “hold over” as well as “lead” equations for their rifles
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is bigger and takes up more visual eyesight area than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Optic Facts
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) include the reticle to the rear of the zoom 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 extra time to make ballistic computations
- Shooting where most of the shots take place within shorter ranges and spaces
- Shooters who select a clearer optic sight picture without area taken up by the bigger FFP reticle
Zoom for Rifle Scopes
The quantity of scope zoom you need is based on the type of shooting you wish to do. Pretty much every type of rifle glass delivers some amount of zoom. The quantity of magnification a scope supplies is identified by the diameter, density, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle optic. The magnification of the scope is the “power” of the opic. This suggests what the shooter is looking at through the scope is magnified times the power factor of what can typically be seen by human eyes.
Fixed Power Lens Optic Facts
A single power rifle scope and optic will have a magnification number designator like 4×32. This suggests the magnification power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this type of scope can not fluctuate considering that it is a fixed power scope.
Variable Power Lens Scope Details
Variable power rifle scopes use enhanced power. The power modification is handled using the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
Rifle Optic Power and Range Correlation
Here are some advised scope powers and the ranges where they may be efficiently used. High power optics will not be as effective as lower magnification level glass considering too much magnification can be a negative aspect depending on your shooting distance. The same idea goes for longer distances where the shooter needs sufficient power to see precisely where to properly aim the rifle at the target.
Info on Rifle Scope Lens Finishes
All contemporary rifle optic lenses are covered in special coatings. There are various types and qualities of lens coverings. When shopping for high end rifle optics and scope units, Lens finish can be a vital component of a rifle. The lenses are one of the most key components of the scope considering that 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 assists with anti glare capabilities from excess daylight and color visibility.
HD Versus ED Scope Lens Coatings
Some rifle scope manufacturers will also use “HD” or high-def glass finishings that make the most of various processes, rare earth compounds, polarizations, and components to draw out different colors and viewable target visibility through the lens. This HD coating is commonly used with increased density lens glass which reduces light’s ability to refract through the lens glass. Some scope vendors use “HD” to refer to “ED” suggesting extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how certain colors are presented on the chroma spectrum and the chromatic aberration or deviance which is similarly called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration may be noticeable over items with well defined shapes as light hits the object from certain angles.
Rifle Optic Lens Single Finishing Versus Multi-Coating
Different scope lenses can also have various finishings applied to them. All lenses normally have at least some type of treatment or finish applied to them before being used in a rifle scope or optic. Since the lens isn’t just 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 it will be optimally usable in numerous kinds of environments, degrees of light (full light VS shade), and other shooting conditions.
This lens treatment can safeguard the lens from scratches while minimizing 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 on the scope manufacturer and how much you paid for it.
Some scope manufacturers similarly make it a point to define if their optic lenses are covered or “multi” coated. Being “much better” depends on the producer’s lens treatment technology and the quality of products used in developing the rifle scope.
What to Know About Anti-water Coating
Water on a lens does not help with maintaining a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Lots of top of the line and high-end optic makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic coating.
Choices for Installing Rifle Glass on Firearms
Mounting approaches for scopes come in a few options. There are the standard scope rings which are individually installed to the optic and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These different types of mounts also normally come in quick release variations which use manual levers which allow rifle shooters to rapidly mount 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 two different rings to support the optic, and are often made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are developed for long range precision shooting. This type of scope install is perfect for rifles which need a durable, sound mounting solution which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abuse the rifle takes.
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Optic Ring Mounts
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to rapidly connect and detach a scope from a rifle before reattaching it to a different rifle. Several scopes can even be switched out if they all use a similar style mount. These types of mounts are convenient for long guns which are carried a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protection, or for scopes which are used in between multiple rifles.
Rifle Glass Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Moisture 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. Many scopes avoid moisture from getting in the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are waterproof.
Rifle Scope Gas Purging
Another part of preventing the buildup of wetness inside of the rifle scope’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Given that this area is currently taken up by the gas, the optic is less affected by condition shifts and pressure variations from the outdoor environment which may potentially permit water vapor to leak 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.
