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Rifle Scope Product Details
Leupold VX-3i 4.5-14x50mm Side Focus Riflescope, 30mm Side Focus – Duplex (170709) (170709)
Let the VX-3i 4.5-14×40 help you reach out further without adding ounces. With a magnification range that’s great for any situation, you’re guaranteed to have the right tool for the job. What do hunters want most in a scope Plain and simple; outstanding performance in low-light conditions and an incredibly tough, lightweight design. The VX-3i delivers this and more. Our Twilight Max Light Management System lets you see details others can’t in those crucial low-light situations at the beginning and the end of the day. Everything we put into the VX-3i is there to help you tag out.
Rifle Scope Product Features
About this item
Model #170709 – VX-3i 4.5-14x50mm Side Focus with Duplex reticle and Matte finish
100% Waterproof, fogproof, and shockproof.
DiamondCoat 2 – Ion-assist lens coating for higher light transmission and the greatest level of abrasion resistance
Precision 1/4 MOA finger click adjustments for windage and elevation offer absolute repeatability and dependability over a lifetime of extreme use
Made with 6061-T6 aircraft quality aluminum and punisher tested to guarantee a lifetime of performance even under harshest recoil
Sport type: Hunting
VX-3i 4.5-14x50mm Side Focus
Magnification Range: 4.5x-14x
Weight: 16.5 oz.
Length: 12.2 in.
Maintube Diameter: 30mm
Eye Relief (in) – Low: 4.4
Eye Relief (in) – High: 3.6
Linear FOV (ft/100 yd) – Low: 19.1
Linear FOV (ft/100 yd) – High: 7.4
Leupold VX-3i
Relentless Performance
The VX-3i 4.5-14×40 helps you reach out further without adding ounces. What do hunters want most in a scope Plain and simple; outstanding performance in low-light conditions and an incredibly tough, lightweight design. The VX-3i delivers this and more. Our Twilight Max Light Management System lets you see details others can’t in those crucial low-light situations at the beginning and the end of the day.
Lightweight, rugged performance
Unparalleled low light performance
Designed, machined, & assembled in the USA
Twilight Max Light Management System
See a more vivid, bright, and clear target image in a wider variation of low and bright lighting conditions. The combination premium edge-to-edge lens clarity, full visible-spectrum lens coatings and glare management provides an extra 20 minutes of shooting light.
Twilight Max Light Management System
Designed, Machined, & Assembled in the USA
Rugged Reliability
Proprietary gas blend and seals are tested to a 33-foot depth and a multitude of pressure changes.
Every Leupold riflescope is designed to survive a minimum of 5,000 impacts on the Punisher, Leupold’s recoil simulation machine. The force of each impact is 3x the recoil of a .308 rifle.
All Leupold riflescopes are tested to perform from -40F to 160F.
VX-Freedom VX-R VX-3i VX-5HD VX-6HD
Light Management System Twilight Twilight Twilight Max Twilight Max HD Twilight Max HD
Maintube Size 1 inch 30mm 1 inch, 30mm 30mm, 34mm 30mm, 34mm
Zoom Ratio 3:1 3:1 3:1 5:1 6:1
HD Glass No No No Yes Yes
About the Leupold Company
Leupold is a premium producer for long gun scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other add-ons used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They create and make their mounts and related products by choosing materials which are resilient and long lasting. This includes the Leupold VX-3i 4.5-14x50mm Side Focus Riflescope, 30mm Side Focus – Duplex (170709) (170709) by Leupold. For more shooting items, visit their website.
What You Need to Know About Scopes
Rifle scopes allow you to exactly aim a rifle at different targets by aligning your eye with the target over a distance. They accomplish this through magnification using a set of lenses within the scope. The scope’s alignment can be adapted to account for many environmental aspects like wind and elevation increases to account for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to understand precisely 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 intended point of impact. The majority of contemporary rifle scopes have about eleven parts which are arranged within and externally on the optic. These scope parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage and elevation dials or turrets, objective focus rings, and other components. Learn about the eleven parts of rifle optics.
Rifle Glass Types
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” kind of scopes. The sort of focal plane an optic has establishes where the reticle or crosshair is located in relation to the scopes zoom. It literally means the reticle is located behind or before the magnifying lens of the optic. Picking the most ideal form of rifle optic depends on what type of shooting you plan on undertaking.
About First Focal Plane Scopes
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the magnification lens. These styles of scopes are helpful for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance types of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where computations are marginal
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their target “hold over” plus “lead” ratios for their firearms
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is bigger and takes up more visual sight room than a SFP reticle
Info About Second Focal Plane Glass
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) come with the reticle to the rear of the magnification 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.
- Long distance forms of shooting where shooters have more time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most of the shots occur within shorter ranges and spaces
- Shooters who choose a clearer optic picture without space taken up by the larger size FFP reticle
Details on Rifle Scope Magnification
The extent of scope magnification you need depends upon the kind of shooting you choose to do. Nearly every style of rifle glass gives some degree of zoom. The quantity of zoom a scope supplies is identified by the dimension, thickness, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle optic. The magnification of the scope is the “power” of the glass. This implies what the shooter is checking out through the scope is magnified times the power factor of what can typically be seen by human eyes.
Fixed Power Lens Glass
A single power rifle optic comes with a zoom number designator like 4×32. This indicates the zoom power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this kind of scope can not fluctuate given that it is set from the factory.
About Adjustable Power Lens Rifle Glass
Variable power rifle scopes can be modified between magnified levels. The power modification is handled using the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
Rifle Scope Power and Ranges
Here are some recommended scope power settings and the distances where they could be effectively used. Highly magnified glass will not be as useful as lower magnification level scopes considering too much magnification can be a bad thing. The very same idea relates to longer distances where the shooter needs to have adequate power to see exactly where to best aim the rifle at the target.
About Lens Finishes
All contemporary rifle scope lenses are covered in special coatings. There are different types and qualities of glass finishings. When shopping for high end rifle scope systems, Lens covering can be an important component of a rifle. The glass lenses are one of the most vital pieces of the optic considering they are what your eye looks through while sighting a rifle in on the target. The finishing on the lenses shields the lens surface area as well as assists with anti glare from refracted direct sunlight and color visibility.
HD Versus ED Rifle Glass Lens Coatings
Some rifle glass producers additionally use “HD” or high-def lense coverings that employ different procedures, polarizations, rare earth compounds, and aspects to draw out numerous color ranges and viewable definition through lenses. This high-def finishing is often used with higher density glass which decreases light’s potential to refract through the lens glass. Some scope vendors use “HD” to describe “ED” suggesting extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how certain colors are represented on the chroma spectrum and the chromatic aberration or difference which is also called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration can be obvious around things with well defined shapes as light hits the object from certain angles.
Single Covering Versus Multi-Coating for Optics
Various optic lenses can also have different finishings applied to them. All lenses generally have at least some type of treatment or finish used to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic.
This lens treatment can protect the lens from scratches while decreasing glare and other less helpful things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the scope. The quality of a single coated lens depends on the scope maker 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” covered. Being “better” depends on the manufacturer’s lens treatment innovation and the quality of materials used in building the rifle scope.
Hydrophobic Rifle Glass Lens Covering
Water on a lens doesn’t help with preserving a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Numerous top of the line and high-end optic makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic anti-water finish.
Choices for Installing Rifle Optics on Firearms
Installing options for scopes can be found in a couple of options. There are the basic scope rings which are individually mounted to the scope and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These different kinds of mounts also normally are made in quick release versions which use throw levers which permit rifle shooters to rapidly install and remove the optics.
Rifle Optic Mounting Solutions with Hex Key Rings
Normal, clamp style mounting scope rings use hex head screws to mount to the flattop style Picatinny scope installation 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 resilient, 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 Glass Ring Mounts
These kinds of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to rapidly attach and detach a scope from a rifle. If they all use a similar design mount, multiple scopes can often be swapped out in the field. The quick detach mount style is CNC crafted from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers fasten firmly to a flat top style Picatinny rail. This allows the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, removed from the rifle, and remounted while retaining the original sighting settings. These kinds of mounts are useful and convenient for rifles which are transferred a lot, to take off the glass from the rifle for protection, or for aiming systems which are utilized in between numerous rifles. An example of this mount style is the 30mm mount designed by the Vortex Optics manufacturer. It usually costs around $250 USD
Optic Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle scope can destroy a day of shooting and your pricey optic by causing fogging and creating residue inside of the scope tube. Most scopes prevent wetness from going into the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are waterproof.
Rifle Optic Gas Purging
Another part of preventing the accumulation of wetness within the rifle scope tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Since this space is currently taken up by the gas, the scope is less influenced by temperature level changes and pressure variations from the external environment which might potentially enable water vapor to seep in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to seek out.
