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Rifle Scope Product Details
Leupold VX-Freedom 4-12x40mm Tri-MOA Reticle Riflescope
The next generation of shooters deserves a new standard for quality and ruggedness in their riflescopes.
With the VX-Freedom you get best-in-class optics that produce a crisp, clear image with repeatable accuracy.
It’s everything you’d expect from a Leupold – designed, machined, and assembled in our Oregon factory, tested to the same ruggedness standards as our top-tier riflescopes, and guaranteed for a lifetime of performance.
Tech Specs:
Objective: 40mm
Maintube: 1 in
Weight (oz): 13.1
Length (in): 12.17
Eye relief (in): 4.92 – 3.74
FOV (ft @ 100yd): 21.5 ” 10.0
Elevation Adjustment (MOA): 80
TRI-MOA Reticle
This reticle’s job is filling tags. Hash marks in 1-MOA increments give you precise reference points for quick, accurate shots.
The upper portion of the Tri-MOA reticle is clear for easier scanning and observation. Compatible with any caliber rifle.
Rifle Scope Product Features
About this item
Absolute waterproof and fogproof integrity: ready for a lifetime in the field, in all conditions.
Durable and compact, the one-inch maintube is lightweight and fits more legacy rings.
Crafted from 6061-T6 aircraft quality aluminum.
4-12x Magnification; Tri-MOA Reticle
Allows to in less light with Twilight Light Management System
Leupold VX-Freedom Riflescope
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Leupold Brand
Actions speak louder than words. It’s a simple statement that we stand behind every single day. Because when you’re eight miles deep into the backcountry, a promise on a piece of paper is worthless unless the product in your hands performs when you need it most.
Keep innovating. That’s one of the keys to relentless performance.
We’re relentless because you’re relentless. You don’t back down. You don’t give in. You keep going when others stop. No matter where you take us, on the battlefield, in competition, or on the hunt, we won’t let you down.
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About the Leupold Manufacturer
Leupold is a premium company for firearm scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other add-ons used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They style and make their products working with elements which are long lasting and durable. This includes the Leupold VX-Freedom 4-12x40mm Tri-MOA Reticle Riflescope by Leupold. For more shooting items, visit their site.
Scope Details
Rifle scopes allow you to specifically aim a rifle at various targets by lining up 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 alignment can be dialed in for consideration of varied ecological elements like wind and elevation to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to understand exactly where the bullet will land based on the sight picture you are seeing via the optic as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended point of impact. The majority of modern rifle scopes have about eleven parts which are located internally and externally on the scope. These optic pieces consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, elevation dials or turrets, focus rings, and other elements. See all eleven parts of an optic.
Rifle Scope Styles
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. Picking the perfect type of rifle scope is based around what type of shooting you plan to do.
First Focal Plane Scope Facts
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the magnifying lens. This triggers the reticle to increase in size based upon the extent of magnification being used. The benefit is that the reticle measurements are the same at the amplified range as they are at the non amplified range. One tick on a mil-dot reticle at one hundred yards with no “zoom” is still the same tick at 100 yards by using 5x “zoom”. These kinds of scopes work for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance kinds of shooting
- Shooting situations where calculations are low
- Experienced shooters who recognize their aim point “hold over” and “lead” ratios for their firearm
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is bigger and uses up more visual sight area than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Optic Details
Second focal plane optics (SFP) include the reticle behind the zoom lens. This induces the reticle to remain at the same overall size in relation to the amount of magnification being used. The end result is that the reticle measurements adjust based on the zoom used to shoot over longer distances since the markings represent distinct increments which differ with the magnification level. In the FFP example with the SFP glass, the 5x “zoom” 100 yard tick reticle measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick reticle measurement. These styles of optics work for:
- Far away kinds of shooting where shooters have increased time to make ballistic estimations
- Shooting where most of the shots take place within much shorter ranges and spaces
- Shooters who want a clearer optic picture with less room used up by the bigger FFP reticle
Rifle Glass Magnification
The amount of magnification a scope supplies is identified by the size, density, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The zoom of the scope is the “power” of the scope.
Info on Fixed Single Power Lens Rifle Optics
A single power rifle optic or scope uses a zoom number designator like 4×32. This implies the zoom power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this type of optic can not change considering that it is set from the factory.
Adjustable Power Lens Rifle Scope Details
Variable power rifle scopes use variable power levels. The power change is performed using the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
Power and Range Correlations
Here are some recommended scope power settings and the ranges where they could be efficiently used. Highly magnified optics will not be as efficient as lower magnification level optics due to the fact that too much zoom can be a bad thing. The same concept goes for extended distances where the shooter needs to have increased power to see where to properly aim the rifle.
About Rifle Scope Lens Finish
All modern rifle scope and optic lenses are coated. Lens coating is an important aspect of a shooting system when considering high end rifle optics and scope equipment.
ED Versus HD Rifle Optics
Some scope producers likewise use “HD” or high-definition lens coverings which use various methods, chemicals, polarizations, and aspects to draw out different colors and viewable quality through the lens. Some scope producers use “HD” to refer to “ED” indicating extra-low dispersion glass.
Single Finishing Versus Multi-Coating
Various scope lenses can also have various coverings 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. Because the lens isn’t just a raw piece of glass, they require performance enhancing coatings. It becomes part of the carefully tuned optic. It must have a covering put on it so that the lens will be optimally functional in lots of types of environments, degrees of sunlight (full VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
This lens treatment can protect 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 on the scope producer and how much you paid for it.
Some scope manufacturers similarly make it a point to define if their optic lenses are layered or “multi” covered. Being “much better” depends on the producer’s lens treatment technology and the quality of materials used in constructing the rifle scope.
About Anti-water Covering
Water on an optic’s lens does not help with preserving a clear sight picture through a scope whatsoever. Lots of top of the line and premium scope manufacturers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic covering. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a good example of this sort of treatment. It deals with the surface area of the Steiner optic lens so the H2O molecules can not bind to it or develop surface tension. The result is that the water beads move off of the scope to preserve a clear, water free sight picture.
Rifle Scope Installing Choices
Mounting options for scopes can be found in a few 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 usually come in quick release variations which use manual levers which allow rifle shooters to rapidly mount and dismount the glass.
Hex Key Optic Rings
Standard, 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 different rings to support the optic, and are made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which is designed for long range accuracy shooting. This type of scope install is great for rifles which require a long lasting, sound mounting solution which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abuse the rifle takes.
Quick-Release Cantilever Glass Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly attach and remove a scope from a rifle before reattaching 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 convenient for long guns which are carried a lot, to swap out the optic from the rifle for protecting the scope, or for scopes which are used in between multiple rifles or are situationally focused.
Rifle Optic Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Moisture inside your rifle optic can destroy a day of shooting and your costly optic by triggering fogging and developing residue inside of the scope tube. The majority of scopes prevent moisture from getting in the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Info Around Optic Tube Gas Purging
Another element of preventing the buildup of moisture inside of the rifle optic tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Considering that this space is already taken up by the gas, the optic is less impacted by condition changes and pressure variations from the outside environment which might possibly permit water vapor to seep in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to seek out.
