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Rifle Scope Product Details
Hi-Lux Optics BC Series 3-9×40 ATR Buck Country Silver Finish Riflescope
BC39X40SF Features: -All-around hunting scope for serious deer hunters. -Ideal for modern slug-shooting shotguns. -Fully multi-coated lenses. -Water-proof, shock-proof, fog-proof. Magnification: -Low (approx. 1X – 7X)/Medium (approx. 3X – 16X). Usage: -Hunting/Muzzleloader/ Shotgun. Objective Lens Diameter: -31-40Mm. Tube Diameter: -1 Inch. Gun Type: -Shotgun/Muzzleloader. Finish: -Silver. Generic Dimensions: -3” H x 2” W x 12.5” D. -Weight: 1 lb. Dimensions: Overall Product Weight: -1 Pounds.
Rifle Scope Product Features
Made of rigid Aluminum
All-around hunting scope for serious deer hunters
Fully multi-coated lenses.
Package quantity: 1
About the Hi-Lux Optics Manufacturer
Hi-Lux Optics is a premium supplier for rifle scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other add-ons used for guns like rifles and long guns. They innovate and make their scopes, mounts, and related products working with building materials which are long lasting and durable. This includes the Hi-Lux Optics BC Series 3-9×40 ATR Buck Country Silver Finish Riflescope by Hi-Lux Optics. For additional shooting items, visit their site.
Info About Optics
Rifle scopes enable you to exactly align a rifle at various targets by lining up your eye with the target at range. They do this through magnifying the target by utilizing a set of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adjusted for the consideration of numerous ecological considerations like wind speed and elevation increases 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 viewing via the scope as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. The majority of contemporary rifle scopes have around 11 parts which are found internally and on the exterior of the scope body. These parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, elevation dials, objective focus rings, and other components. See all eleven parts of optics.
The Types of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Deciding upon the optimal type of rifle scope depends on what type of shooting you plan to do.
About First Focal Plane Glass
First focal plane glass (FFP) come with the reticle in front of the magnifying lens. This induces the reticle to increase in size based upon the amount of zoom being used. The benefit is that the reticle measurements are the same at the amplified range as they are at the non magnified range. One tick on a mil-dot reticle at one hundred yards without “zoom” is still the identical tick at one hundred yards by using 5x “zoom”. These kinds of scopes are valuable for:
- Quick acquisition, far away types of shooting
- Shooting situations where computations are minimal
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their aim point “hold over” plus “lead” ratios for their long guns
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is bigger and requires more visual sight room than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Glass
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.
- Far away forms of shooting where shooters have more time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most shots take place within much shorter ranges and distances
- Shooters who select a clearer optic picture without room used up by the larger sized FFP reticle
Details on Scope Magnification
The quantity of magnification a scope supplies 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.
Single Power Lens Rifle Glass
A single power rifle optic or scope uses a magnification number designator like 4×32. This indicates the zoom power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this kind of scope can not adjust since it is a set power scope.
Info About Variable Power Lens Rifle Scopes
Variable power rifle scopes can be adjusted between magnification increments. These types of scopes will note the zoom degree in a format like 2-10×32. These numbers mean the magnification of the scope could be set between 2x and 10x power. This also utilizes the power levels in-between 2 and 10. The power adjustment is achieved using the power ring component of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
Power and Range Correlations
Here are some advised scope power levels and the ranges where they may be effectively used. High power optics will not be as efficient as lower powered scopes considering too much zoom can be a bad thing. The same applies to extended distances where the shooter needs enough power to see precisely where to best aim the rifle.
Glass Lens Finishing
All contemporary rifle scope lenses are coated. There are various types and qualities of glass lens coatings. When researching luxury rifle optics and scope systems, Lens coating can be a vital component of defining the rifle’s capability. The lenses are one of the most essential components of the optic due to the fact that they are what your eye sees through while sighting a rifle in on the target. The coating on the lenses safeguards the lens surface area and also improves anti glare from refracted daylight and color discernibility.
ED Versus HD Rifle Glass
Some rifle scope suppliers will also use “HD” or high-def lense coverings which employ various processes, polarizations, chemicals, and aspects to enhance separate color ranges and viewable target definition through lenses. This high-definition finishing is normally used with higher density glass which brings down light’s potential to refract through the lens glass. Some scope suppliers use “HD” to refer to “ED” implying extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how colors are presented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic deviance or aberration which is similarly called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration may be obvious around items with well defined outlines as light hits the item from specific angles.
Single Covering Versus Multi-Coating
Different optic lenses can even have various coverings 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. 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 requires a coating to be applied to it so that the lens will be efficiently functional in numerous kinds of environments, degrees of sunlight (full VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
Single covered lenses have a treatment applied to them which is usually a protective and enhancing multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can protect the lens from scratches while minimizing glare and other less helpful things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the scope. The quality of a single layered lens depends on the scope company and just how much you spent paying for it. Both are signs of the lens quality.
Some scope manufacturers likewise make it a point to define if their optic lenses are layered or “multi” covered. This indicates the lens has had multiple treatments applied to the surfaces. If a lens gets several treatments, it can establish that a producer is taking several actions to fight various environmental aspects like an anti-glare coating, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion finishing, followed by a hydrophilic covering. This additionally does not always mean the multi-coated lens will perform better than a single layered lens. Being “much better” depends on the maker’s lens treatment solutions and the quality of components used in building the rifle optic.
Rifle Glass Lens Anti-water Finishing
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 scope makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic coating.
Options for Installing Glass on Long Guns
Mounting approaches for scopes come in a couple of options. There are the standard scope rings which are separately installed to the optic and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These different types of mounts also generally are made in quick release variations which use toss levers which permit rifle operators to quickly install and dismount the glass.
Rifle Glass Mounts with Hex Key Rings
Standard, clamp design mounting optic rings use hex head screws to fix to the flattop design Picatinny scope mount rails on rifles. These kinds of scope mounts use a pair of individual rings to support the optic, and are made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are made for far away precision shooting. This kind of scope mount is good for rifle systems which need to have a long lasting, unfailing mount which will not change regardless of how much the scope is moved or jarring the rifle takes. These are the design of mounts you really want to have for a dedicated scope system on a far away hunting or interdiction rifle that will almost never need to be changed or adjusted. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can also be used on the mount’s screws to keep the hex screw threads from backing out after they are installed firmly in place. An example of these rings are the 30mm style made by Vortex Optics. The set usually costs around $200 USD
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Glass Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly connect and detach a scope from a rifle before reattaching it to a different rifle. Numerous scopes can even be swapped out if they all use a similar design mount. These types of mounts come in handy for rifle platforms which are transported a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protection, or for optics which are used in between multiple rifles.
Rifle Scope Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Moisture inside your rifle glass can spoil a day on the range and your expensive optic by resulting in fogging and producing residue inside of the scope’s tube. Many optics protect against moisture from going into the optical tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are waterproof. Typically, these water-resistant optics can be immersed beneath 20 or 30 feet of water before the water pressure can force moisture past the O-rings. This should be sufficient humidity avoidance for basic use rifles, unless you intend on taking your rifle aboard a watercraft and are concerned about the scope still working if it goes over the side and you can still salvage the gun.
Info Around Rifle Scope Tube Gas Purging
Another element of preventing the accumulation of moisture within the rifle optic tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Since this space is already taken up by the gas, the glass is less impacted by temperature shifts and pressure differences from the external environment which might possibly allow water vapor to seep in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to look for.
