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Rifle Scope Product Details
Hi-Lux Optics Buck Country Series 1.5-6x42mm Riflescope with Duplex Reticle, Matte Black
Product Description
Are you looking for a reliable, no-nonsense, frill-free variable riflescope for a hard-working deer and other big game center-fire rifle Take a look at the Buck Country models by Hi-Lux Optics. Many experienced hunters who have switched to one of these scopes often proclaim it to be “The Best” moderately priced scope on the market today. Hi-Lux Optics builds the Buck Country models with many of the same top-quality features found on our own scopes costing two or three times the reasonable retail of the models in this series. Features include the reliable Tri-Center spring tension on the internal erector tube, to insure positive 1/4″ click windage and elevation adjustment – and that the adjustment holds through thousands of rounds, until you are ready to change it. Every air surface of every lens of these scopes are fully multi-coated to insure the highest degree of light transmission, while the photographic quality of the precision ground glass lenses insure a crisp and clear target image. The fast focus eyepiece quickly adjusts to individual shooter eyesight. These are 1-inch diameter tube scopes, built with a rigid one-piece aluminum tube. The 3-9x models feature the popular 40mm front objective lens, allowing the scope to be mounted low on a rifle. The 1. 5-6x scope comes with a slightly larger 42mm objective lens that gathers just a bit more light, making the model ideal for those hunts that take you into the dark woods at dawn or dusk.
From the Manufacturer
Are you looking for a reliable, no-nonsense, frill-free variable riflescope for a hard-working deer and other big game center-fire rifle Take a look at the Buck Country models by Hi-Lux Optics. Many experienced hunters who have switched to one of these scopes often proclaim it to be “The Best” moderately priced scope on the market today. Hi-Lux Optics builds the Buck Country models with many of the same top-quality features found on our own scopes costing two or three times the reasonable retail of the models in this series. Features include the reliable Tri-Center spring tension on the internal erector tube, to insure positive 1/4″ click windage and elevation adjustment – and that the adjustment holds through thousands of rounds, until you are ready to change it. Every air surface of every lens of these scopes are fully multi-coated to insure the highest degree of light transmission, while the photographic quality of the precision ground glass lenses insure a crisp and clear target image. The fast focus eyepiece quickly adjusts to individual shooter eyesight. These are 1-inch diameter tube scopes, built with a rigid one-piece aluminum tube. The 3-9x models feature the popular 40mm front objective lens, allowing the scope to be mounted low on a rifle. The 1.5-6x scope comes with a slightly larger 42mm objective lens that gathers just a bit more light, making the model ideal for those hunts that take you into the dark woods at dawn or dusk.
Rifle Scope Product Features
All-around hunting scope for serious deer hunters rugged and durable for all hunting conditions
Solid 1 piece 1″ tube construction with enlarged erector tube housing limited lifetime warranty
Magnification 1.5-6x
Fully multi-coated lenses water-proof shock proof fog proof
Duplex reticle
About the Hi-Lux Optics Manufacturer
Hi-Lux Optics is a premium manufacturer for weapon scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other accessories used for guns like rifles and long guns. They create and build their mounts and related products working with elements which are resilient and long lasting. This includes the Hi-Lux Optics Buck Country Series 1.5-6x42mm Riflescope with Duplex Reticle, Matte Black by Hi-Lux Optics. For additional shooting items, visit their site.
What You Need to Know About Optics
Rifle scopes enable you to specifically aim a rifle at various targets by lining up your eye with the target over a distance. They accomplish this through magnifying the target by employing a set of lenses within the scope. The scope’s alignment can be dialed in to account for separate natural things like wind and elevation increases or decreases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to help shooters understand exactly where the bullet will land based on the sight picture you are seeing through the scope as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the target. Many modern rifle optics have about eleven parts which are located inside and on the exterior of the optic. These parts consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage and elevation turrets, objective focus rings, and other parts. Learn about the eleven parts of rifle glass.
The Types of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. Finding the best type of rifle optic depends on what type of shooting you plan on doing.
Info About First Focal Plane Glass
Focal plane scopes (FFP) include the reticle in front of the magnification lens. These kinds of scopes are beneficial for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance kinds of shooting
- Shooting circumstances where estimations are minor
- Experienced shooters who know their target “hold over” as well as “lead” equations for their rifles
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is bigger and occupies more visual sight room than a SFP reticle
Info About Second Focal Plane Glass
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) include the reticle behind the zoom lens. This triggers the reticle to remain at the very same dimensions in connection with the quantity of magnification being used. The end result is that the reticle measurements alter based upon the magnification used to shoot over lengthier ranges because the markings represent different increments which differ with the magnification. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick reticle measurement. These particular kinds of optics are useful for:
- Long distance forms of shooting where shooters have extra time to make ballistic computations
- Shooting where most shots take place within shorter ranges and spaces
- Shooters who select a clearer optic picture with less area taken up by the enlarged FFP reticle
Optic Magnification
The amount of zoom a scope provides is determined 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.
Fixed Power Lens Scopes
A single power rifle scope uses a magnification number designator like 4×32. This suggests the zoom power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this type of optic can not change because it is fixed.
Variable Power Lens Rifle Scopes
Variable power rifle scopes use variable power levels. The power change is accomplished using the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
The Power Level and Range Correlation of Rifle Optics
Here are some suggested scope power levels and the ranges where they may be successfully used. Highly magnified glass will not be as effective as lower magnification level optics due to the fact that too much magnification can be a bad thing. The exact same idea goes for extended ranges where the shooter needs enough power to see precisely where to properly aim the rifle.
Details on Lens Covering
All modern-day rifle scope lenses are covered in special coatings. There are various types and qualities of glass coverings. Lens covering can be a crucial element of a rifle’s setup when thinking about high end rifle optics and targeting equipment. The lenses are among the most crucial parts of the glass due to the fact that they are what your eye looks through while sighting a rifle in on the target. The covering on the lenses shields the lens surface as well as assists with anti glare capabilities from excess natural light and color presence.
HD Versus ED Lenses
Some scope makers likewise use “HD” or high-definition lens finishes which use various techniques, aspects, polarizations, and chemicals to draw out separate colors and viewable definition through the lens. Some scope makers use “HD” to refer to “ED” to signify the lens has extra-low dispersion glass.
Single Scope Lens Coating Versus Multi-Coating
Various scope lenses can also have different finishings applied to them. All lenses typically have at least some kind of treatment or finishing applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic. This is since 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 usable in many kinds of environments, degrees of light (full light VS shade), and other shooting conditions.
Single coated lenses have a treatment applied to them which is typically a protective and improving multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can preserve the lens from scratches while decreasing 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 are indicators of the lens quality.
Some scope producers similarly make it a point to define if their optic lenses are covered or “multi” coated. Being “much better” depends on the manufacturer’s lens treatment innovation and the quality of products used in building the rifle scope.
Details on Hydrophobic Finish
Water on a scope’s lens doesn’t improve preserving a clear sight picture through an optic in any way. Many top of the line or high-end optic makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic covering. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a fine example of this kind of treatment. It deals with the exterior of the Steiner optic lens so the water molecules can not bind to it or create surface tension. The result is that the water beads move off of the scope to keep a clear, water free sight picture.
Rifle Glass Installing Alternatives
Installing approaches for scopes come in a couple of choices. There are the basic scope rings which are individually installed to the optic and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These various kinds of mounts also normally come in quick release versions which use throw levers which allow rifle operators to rapidly mount and remove the scopes.
Glass Mounts with Hex Key Rings
Standard, clamp style 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 separate rings to support the optic, and are made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which is created for long range precision 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 abused.
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Glass Ring Mounts
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly remove a scope from a rifle and reattach it to a different rifle. If they all use a comparable style mount, multiple scopes can often be switched on the range. The quick detach mount style is CNC crafted from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers connect solidly to a flat top design Picatinny rail. This allows the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, removed from the rifle, and remounted back on the rifle while keeping precision. These kinds of mounts are useful and practical for rifles which are shipped a lot, to take off the scope from the rifle for protection, or for aiming systems which are utilized in between several rifles. An example of this mount type is the 30mm mount designed by Vortex Optics. It normally costs around $250 USD
Sealing and Gas Purging for Glass Tubes
Moisture inside your rifle scope can mess up a day of shooting and your expensive optic by bringing about fogging and producing residue inside of the scope tube. Most scopes avoid wetness from getting in the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Gas Purged Scope Tubes
Another element of preventing the accumulation of moisture within the rifle optic tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Given that this area is currently taken up by the gas, the glass is less impacted by climate shifts and pressure variations from the external environment which could possibly allow 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.
