Description
Rifle Scope Product Details
Leupold VX-6 7-42x56mm Riflescope
Developed and tested alongside F-Class shooters, the 7-42x56mm delivers incredible precision at extreme distances. With the widest field-of-view among competitive scopes and the TMOA Plus reticle, featuring an open center, this scope helps shooters easily locate and engage targets when shots start stretching out to incredible distances.
Rifle Scope Product Features
Model #118504 – VX-6 7-42x56mm with T-MOA Plus CDS reticle and Matte finish
100% Waterproof, fogproof, and shockproof.
CDS (Custom Dial System) – Simplifies longer shots by eliminating the need for holdovers or ballistic calculations by using a dial that is customized to your rifle and ammo
Twilight Max HD Light Management system – Adds up to 30 minutes of shooting light, best in class glare reduction, and edge to edge HD lens clarity
Features 1/8-MOA target-style click windage and elevation adjustments
VX-6 7-42x56mm
Magnification Range: 7x-42x
Weight: 26.3 oz.
Length: 15.5 in.
Maintube Diameter: 34mm
Eye Relief (in) – Low: 4.2
Eye Relief (in) – High: 3.9
Linear FOV (ft/100 yd) – Low: 16.2
Linear FOV (ft/100 yd) – High: 2.7
Leupold VX-6
Relentless Performance
Developed and tested alongside F-Class shooters, the 7-42x56mm delivers incredible precision at extreme distances. With the widest field-of-view among competitive scopes and the TMOA Plus reticle, featuring an open center, this scope helps shooters easily locate and engage targets when shots start stretching out to incredible distances.
Lightweight, rugged performance
Unparalleled low light performance
Designed, machined, & assembled in the USA
Twilight Max HD Light Management System
Representing the pinnacle of our in-house lens design, the Twilight Max HD systemis built to deliver unbelieveable image quality in the harshest of lighting conditions.
Twilight Red Dot Light Management System
Free CDS Elevation Dial
Designed, Machined, & Assembled in the USA
Rugged Reliability
Proprietary gas blend and seals are tested by us 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 by us to perform from -40F to 160F.
Mark AR VX-R Patrol Competition Series 45×45 VX-6 VX-4.5HD
Light Management System Twilight Twilight Twilight Max Xtended Twilight Twilight Max HD
Maintube Size 1 inch 30mm 30mm 34mm 30mm
Zoom Ratio 3:1 3:1 N/A 6:1 4:1
HD Glass No No No No Yes
About the Leupold Manufacturer
Leupold is a premium producer for weapon scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other accessories used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They style and manufacture their mounts and related products choosing materials which are durable and long lasting. This includes the Leupold VX-6 7-42x56mm Riflescope by Leupold. For additional shooting items, visit their website.
Information About Optics
Rifle scopes enable you to exactly aim a rifle at different targets by aligning your eye with the target over a range. They accomplish this through magnification by using a set of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adapted for consideration of many ecological things like wind and elevation increases to account for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to help shooters understand exactly where the bullet will hit based upon the sight picture you are seeing via the scope as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended point of impact. Most contemporary rifle scopes and optics have about eleven parts which are arranged internally and outside of the optic. These scope parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, modification turrets or dials, objective focus rings, and other components. Learn about the eleven parts of glass.
The Styles of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” style of scopes. The kind of focal plane a scope has identifies where the reticle or crosshair is located relative to the scopes magnification. It literally implies the reticle is situated behind or before the magnifying lens of the scope. Selecting the most suitable kind of rifle glass is based on what type of shooting you plan on doing.
First Focal Plane Glass
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the zoom lens. These styles of scopes are helpful for:
- Quick acquisition, far away types of shooting
- Shooting situations where estimations are marginal
- Experienced shooters who understand their aim point “hold over” plus “lead” correlations for their rifles
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is enlarged and uses up more visual sight area than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Optic Details
Second focal plane optics (SFP) feature 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 measurement.
- Far away forms of shooting where shooters have additional time to make ballistic computations
- Shooting where most shots take place within shorter ranges and distances
- Shooters who choose a clearer optic picture without space used up by the larger sized FFP reticle
Rifle Glass Zoom
The amount of scope zoom you require is based on the sort of shooting you would like to do. Almost every type of rifle glass provides some amount of magnification. The amount of zoom a scope delivers is established by the dimension, thickness, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The magnification of the scope is the “power” of the glass. This denotes what the shooter is aiming at through the scope is magnified times the power aspect of what can normally be seen by human eyes.
Single Power Lens Scope Details
A single power rifle optic or scope will have a magnification number designator like 4×32. This means the zoom power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this kind of scope can not change because it is a set power scope.
Adjustable Power Lens Scopes
Variable power rifle scopes have adjustable power. It will list the magnification degree in a configuration like 2-10×32. These numbers suggest the zoom of the scope could be adjusted between 2x and 10x power. This always involves the power levels in-between 2 and 10. The power adaptation is accomplished using the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell piece.
Power Levels and Range
Here are some suggested scope powers and the ranges where they can be successfully used. Highly magnified scopes will not be as useful as lower magnification level rifle scope glass given that too much zoom can be a negative aspect depending on your shooting distance. The same goes for longer distances where the shooter needs sufficient power to see precisely where to properly aim the rifle.
Lens Finishing for Scopes
All modern rifle scope and optic lenses are covered in special coatings. There are different types and qualities of glass finishes. When researching high end rifle scope devices, Lens covering can be an important aspect of defining the capability of the rifle. The lenses are one of the most key pieces of the glass considering that they are what your eye looks through while sighting a rifle in on the target. The finish on the lenses shields the lens surface as well as improves anti glare from refracted daylight and color profiles.
HD Versus ED Lens Coatings
Some scope manufacturers even use “HD” or high-definition lense coatings which make the most of various processes, polarizations, components, and chemicals to enhance a wide range of color ranges and viewable target definition through the lens. This high-definition covering is normally used with higher density glass which reduces light’s potential to refract through the lens glass. Some scope brands use “HD” to refer to “ED” indicating extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how certain colors are presented on the chroma spectrum and the chromatic deviance or aberration which is similarly called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration can be noticeable around items with hard outlines as light hits the object from particular angles.
Rifle Glass Lens Single Finish Versus Multi-Coating
Various scope lenses can even have various finishings applied to them. All lenses typically have at least some kind of treatment or covering applied to them before they are used in a rifle scope or optic assembly. Due to the fact that the lens isn’t simply a raw piece of glass, they require performance enhancing coatings. It is part of the carefully tuned optic. It requires a coating to be applied to it so that it will be optimally usable in many kinds of environments, degrees of sunlight (full light VS shade), and other shooting conditions.
This lens treatment can offer protection to the lens from scratches while decreasing glare and other less useful things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the scope. The quality of a single layered lens depends on the scope maker and how much you paid for it.
Some scope producers likewise make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are layered or “multi” covered. This suggests the lens has numerous treatments applied to them. If a lens gets multiple treatments, it can prove that a maker is taking several actions to fight various natural aspects like an anti-glare covering, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion finish, followed by a hydrophilic finishing. This additionally doesn’t necessarily indicate the multi-coated lens is better than a single coated lens. Being “much better” hinges on the manufacturer’s lens treatment technology and the quality of products used in developing the rifle glass.
Hydrophobic Optic Lens Covering
Water on a lens does not help with keeping a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Many top of the line and military grade scope makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic anti-water finishing.
Options for Installing Rifle Optics on Firearms
Installing options for scopes are available in a few choices. 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 typically can be found in quick release variations which use throw levers which allow rifle operators to quickly install and dismount the optics.
Hex Key Scope Rings
Standard, clamp-on design mounting optic rings use hex head screws to fix to the flattop style Picatinny scope mount rails on rifles. These forms of scope mounts use two detached rings to support the optic, and are usually constructed from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are manufactured for long distance accuracy shooting. This type of scope mount is great for rifles which are in need of a durable, hard use mount which will not move regardless of how much the scope is moved or jarring the rifle takes. These are the design of mounts you should have for a faithful scope setup on a reach out and touch someone hunting or tournament firearm which will pretty much never need to be modified or adjusted. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can additionally be used on the mount’s screws to prevent the hex screws from backing out after they are mounted tightly in place. An example of these rings are the 30mm style made by the Vortex Optics company. The set typically costs around $200 USD
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Scope Ring Mounts
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to rapidly remove a scope and connect it to a different rifle. Several scopes can also be switched out if they all use a compatible design mount. These types of mounts are handy for long guns which are transferred a lot, to swap out the optic from the rifle for protection, or for optics which are used in between numerous rifles.
Optic Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle optic can mess up a day on the range and your expensive optic by resulting in fogging and producing residue within the scope’s tube. Most scopes protect against wetness from getting in the optical tube with a series of sealing O-rings which are water resistant. Typically, these water resistant scopes can be submerged under 20 or 30 feet of water before the water pressure can force moisture past the O-rings. This should be sufficient wetness prevention for standard use rifles for hunting and sporting purposes, unless you intend on taking your rifle aboard watercrafts and are worried about the scope still functioning if it is submerged in water and you can still rescue the firearm.
Rifle Scope Gas Purging
Another component of preventing the buildup of moisture within the rifle scope’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Because this area is currently taken up by the gas, the glass is less affected by temperature changes and pressure variations from the outside environment which could possibly enable water vapor to leak 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.
