Description
Rifle Scope Product Details
Konus 7187 KonusPro Empire Riflescope, Black Matte, One Size
The 5x-30x56mm zoom riflescope with mildot reticle. It is built with dual illuminated blue & red reticle. The laser engraved reticle is recoil proof and strong 30mm tube. It is designed with internal level bubble for square aiming, locking turrets resettable to zero and fast focus ocular. It includes a side parallax wheel, fully multi-coated glass lenses, a 4″ sunshade and flip up lens covers.
Rifle Scope Product Features
5x-30x zoom magnifications
56mm objective lens
Fully multi-coated glass lenses
30mm tube construction
Laser engraved, illuminated reticle
Sport Type: Tactical & Military
About the Konus Company
Konus is a premium producer for rifle scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other add-ons used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They create and make their products making the most of materials which are durable and long lasting. This includes the Konus 7187 KonusPro Empire Riflescope, Black Matte, One Size by Konus. For additional shooting goods, visit their website.
Glass Info
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 using a set of lenses within the scope. The scope’s alignment can be adjusted to account for various ecological factors like wind and elevation increases or 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 using the scope as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. The majority of modern-day rifle scopes and optics have around eleven parts which are arranged within and outside of the scope body. These parts consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage and elevation dials or turrets, focus rings, and other parts. Learn about the eleven parts of rifle optics.
The Styles of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” kind of scopes. The type of focal plane a scope has establishes where the reticle or crosshair is located in relation to the scopes magnification. It actually means the reticle is located behind or ahead of the magnifying lens of the scope. Picking out the most ideal type of rifle glass is based upon what sort of hunting or shooting you intend on doing.
About First Focal Plane Optics
First focal plane glass (FFP) feature the reticle ahead of the magnifying lens. This causes the reticle to increase in size based on the amount of zoom being used. The benefit is that the reticle measurements are the same at the enhanced range as they are at the non amplified range. As an example, one tick on a mil-dot reticle at 100 yards without having “zoom” is still the very same tick at one hundred yards using 5x “zoom”. These kinds of scopes work for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance types of shooting
- Shooting circumstances where calculations are minor
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their target “hold over” and also “lead” ratios for their firearm
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is enlarged and takes up more visual eyesight space than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Glass Info
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) come with the reticle to the rear of the zoom lens. 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 measurement.
- Long distance kinds of shooting where shooters have extra time to make ballistic estimations
- Shooting where most shots occur within much shorter ranges and proximities
- Shooters who prefer a clearer optic sight picture with less room taken up by the bigger FFP reticle
Optic Magnification
The level of scope magnification you require is based on the sort of shooting you plan to do. Virtually every type of rifle scope provides some level of magnification. The amount of zoom a scope supplies is established by the dimension, thickness, and curves of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The magnification of the optic is the “power” of the opic. This denotes what the shooter is checking out through the scope is magnified times the power element of what can typically be seen by human eyes.
Single Power Lens Optics
A single power rifle optic will have a zoom number designator like 4×32. This means the zoom power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this kind of scope can not adjust because it is a fixed power scope.
Variable Power Lens Glass
Variable power rifle scopes can be adjusted between magnification increments. These types of scopes will list the magnification degree in a format such as 2-10×32. These numbers indicate the magnification of the scope can be adjusted between 2x and 10x power. This always utilizes the powers in-between 2 and 10. The power manipulation is achieved utilizing the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
Power and Range
Here are some advised scope power settings and the distances where they may be efficiently used. Remember that high magnification optics will not be as practical as lower powered scope and optics since too much magnification can be a detractor. The very same idea relates to longer ranges where the shooter needs sufficient power to see exactly where to properly aim the rifle at the target.
About Lens Coatings
All modern rifle scope and optic lenses are layered. There are various types and qualities of glass coverings. When looking at high end rifle targeting units, Lens finish can be an essential component of defining the capability of the rifle. The lenses are among the most important parts of the optic since they are what your eye looks through while sighting a rifle in on the target. The covering on the lenses protects the lens surface area as well as improves anti glare capabilities from excess direct sunlight and color visibility.
ED Versus HD Optics
Some glass producers additionally use “HD” or high-definition lense coatings that use different procedures, chemical applications, polarizations, and elements to extract different color ranges and viewable target visibility through the lens. This high-definition covering is typically used with more costly high density lens glass which drops light’s ability to refract through the lens glass. Some scope makers use “HD” to describe “ED” implying extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how certain colors are represented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic difference or aberration which is similarly called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration may be visible around objects with defined shapes as light hits the item from various angles.
Details on Single Coating Versus Multi-Coating
Various scope lenses can also have different coatings applied to them. All lenses usually have at least some kind of treatment or finishing applied to them prior to 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 is part of the finely tuned optic. It requires a coating to be applied to it so that the lens will be optimally usable in lots of kinds of environments, degrees of sunlight (full light VS shade), 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 manufacturer and how much you paid for it.
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 producer’s lens treatment innovation and the quality of materials used in constructing the rifle scope.
Optic Lens Anti-water Covering
Water on a lens doesn’t support keeping a clear sight picture through an optic in any way. Many top of the line and high-end optic manufacturers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic finish. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a good example of this sort of treatment. It treats the surface of the Steiner optic lens so the water molecules can not bind to it or produce surface tension. The outcome is that the water beads roll off of the scope to maintain a clear, water free sight picture.
Glass Mounting Choices
Mounting solutions for scopes come in a couple of choices. There are the basic scope rings which are individually mounted 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 throw levers which permit rifle shooters to rapidly install and dismount the glass.
Hex Key Rifle Scope Ring Mounting Solutions
Normal, clamp style mounting scope rings use hex head screws to mount to the flattop design Picatinny scope mount rails on rifles. These types of scope mounts use a couple of different rings to support the optic, and are made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which is developed for long range precision shooting. This type of scope mount is excellent for rifles which require a long lasting, rock solid mounting solution which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abuse the rifle takes.
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Scope Ring Mounts
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly connect and remove a scope from a rifle before reattaching it to a different rifle. Multiple scopes can even be swapped out if they all use a compatible style mount. These types of mounts come in handy for long guns which are transferred a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protection, or for scopes which are used between several rifles.
Details on Scope Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle optic can destroy a day on the range and your pricey optic by causing fogging and making residue inside of the scope tube. Most optics prevent moisture from getting in the optical tube with a series of sealing O-rings which are water resistant. Generally, these water-resistant optics can be submerged underneath 20 or 30 feet of water before the water pressure can push moisture past the O-rings. This should be more than enough humidity prevention for conventional use rifles for hunting and sporting purposes, unless you anticipate taking your rifle aboard a watercraft and are concerned about the scope still functioning if it is submerged in water and you can still rescue the rifle.
What to Know About Scope Tube Gas Purging
Another part of avoiding the buildup of moisture within the rifle scope’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Given that this space is currently taken up by the gas, the scope is less altered by climate alterations and pressure distinctions from the external environment which might possibly permit water vapor to permeate in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to look for.
