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Rifle Scope Product Details
Meopta Optika6 3-18×50 DichroTech 4D 30mm FFP Riflescope 653566
Meopta MeoPro Optika6 Riflescope, 3-18x50mm, 30mm Tube, First Focal Plane, DichroTech 4D Reticle, Black, 653566
Rifle Scope Product Features
About the Meopta Manufacturer
Meopta is a premium company for firearm scopes, optics, mounts, and other accessories used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They create and build their scopes and related products by applying elements which are long lasting and resilient. This includes the Meopta Optika6 3-18×50 DichroTech 4D 30mm FFP Riflescope 653566 by Meopta. For more shooting goods, visit their site.
Information About Scopes
Rifle scopes allow you to precisely align a rifle at different targets by aligning your eye with the target at range. They accomplish this through magnifying the target by making use of a series of lenses within the scope. The scope’s alignment can be adapted to take into account separate environmental aspects like wind and elevation decreases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to help the shooter understand precisely where the bullet will land based upon the sight picture you are viewing through the optic as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended point of impact. Most modern rifle optics have around eleven parts which are arranged within and outside of the scope. These scope parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, adjustment dials, focus rings, and other components. Learn about the eleven parts of rifle optics.
Rifle Scope Types
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Choosing the best type of rifle optic depends on what type of shooting you plan on doing.
Info on First Focal Plane Glass
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the zoom lens. These kinds of scopes are useful for:
- Quick acquisition, far away kinds of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where calculations are small
- Experienced shooters who know their aim point “hold over” and also “lead” ratios for their long gun
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is enlarged and occupies more visual eyesight room than a SFP reticle
Info on Second Focal Plane Optics
Second focal plane optics (SFP) feature the reticle to the rear of the magnification lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” 100 yard tick would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick.
- Long distance types of shooting where shooters have extra time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most of the shots happen within shorter ranges and distances
- Shooters who would like a clearer optic sight picture with less area taken up by the larger sized FFP reticle
Details on Scope Magnification
The level of scope magnification you need on your scope is based on the sort of shooting you choose to do. Almost every kind of rifle optic provides some amount of magnification. The amount of zoom a scope supplies is determined by the dimension, thickness, and curves of the lens glass inside of the rifle optic. The magnification level of the optic is the “power” of the glass. This indicates what the shooter is checking out through the scope is amplified times the power element of what can usually be seen by human eyes.
Single Power Lens Optics
A single power rifle optic or scope will have a zoom number designator like 4×32. This indicates the zoom power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this kind of optic can not adjust since it is set from the factory.
About Adjustable Power Lens Rifle Glass
Variable power rifle scopes can be tweaked between magnified settings. The power change is achieved by the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
Rifle Optic Power and Ranges
Here are some recommended scope power settings and the distances where they may be effectively used. High power glass will not be as useful as lower powered glass given that too much zoom can be a negative aspect depending on your shooting distance. The same goes for extended distances where the shooter needs enough power to see where to properly aim the rifle at the target.
Details on Rifle Optic Lens Covering
All modern-day rifle scope and optic lenses are layered. Lens covering is a significant element of a shooting system when looking at high end rifle optics and scope systems.
HD Versus ED Lens Coatings
Some scope manufacturers likewise use “HD” or high-definition lens coatings which use different processes, aspects, polarizations, and chemicals to draw out different colors and viewable quality through the lens. Some scope producers use “HD” to refer to “ED” to signify the lens has extra-low dispersion glass.
Single Coating Versus Multi-Coating
Various scope lenses can even have different coverings applied to them. All lenses usually have at least some type of treatment or covering 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 becomes part of the finely tuned optic. It must have a finish put on it so that it will be optimally usable in lots of types of environments, degrees of light (full VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
This lens treatment can offer protection to the lens from scratches while lowering glare and other less beneficial 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 likewise make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are layered or “multi” coated. This implies the lens has had numerous treatments applied to them. If a lens gets several treatments, it can show that a manufacturer is taking numerous steps to combat various natural factors like an anti-glare coating, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion coating, followed by a hydrophilic coating. This also doesn’t always mean the multi-coated lens is better than a single layered lens. Being “much better” is dependent on the maker’s lens treatment techniques and the quality of components used in creating the rifle optic.
Anti-water Finish for Scopes
Water on a lens doesn’t help with keeping a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Numerous top of the line and high-end scope companies will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic coating.
Rifle Optic Installation Choices
Installing solutions for scopes come 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 types of mounts also typically are made in quick release variations which use toss levers which allow rifle operators to rapidly mount and dismount the optics.
Hex Key Optic Rings
Standard, clamp design 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 a couple of different rings to support the optic, and are often made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which is designed for long range precision shooting. This type of scope install is excellent 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.
Glass Mounts with Quick-Release Cantilever Rings
These kinds of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to rapidly remove a scope from a rifle and reattach it to a different rifle. Multiple scopes can also be swapped out if they all use a complementary style mount. The quick detach mount style is CNC machined from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers fasten tightly to a flat top type Picatinny rail. This enables the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, removed from the rifle, and remounted back on the rifle while keeping precision. These types of mounts are useful and convenient for rifles which are transferred a lot, to remove the scope glass from the rifle for protection, or for aiming systems which are adopted between a number of rifles. An example of this mount type is the 30mm mount from the Vortex Optics brand. It usually costs around $250 USD
Rifle Glass Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle glass can spoil a day of shooting and your expensive optic by inducing fogging and producing residue inside of the scope tube. Most optics protect against moisture from entering the optical tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant. Normally, these scopes can be submerged under 20 or 30 feet of water before the water pressure can push moisture past the O-rings. This should be sufficient moisture prevention for standard use rifles for hunting and sporting purposes, unless you anticipate taking your rifle on a boat and are worried about the scope still functioning if it falls overboard and you can still find the rifle.
Scope Gas Purging
Another element of preventing the buildup of moisture inside of the rifle scope tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Considering that this space is currently taken up by the gas, the glass is less influenced by temp changes and pressure distinctions from the outside environment which may potentially permit water vapor to seep in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to look for.
