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Rifle Scope Product Details
Meopta Optika6 5-30×56 BDC 34mm – FFP 1st Focal Plane DichroTech (653600)
Meopta MeoPro Optika6 Riflescope, 5-30x56mm, 34mm Tube, First Focal Plane, DichroTech BDC Reticle, Black, 653600
Rifle Scope Product Features
About the Meopta Company
Meopta is a premium producer for firearm scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other components used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They innovate and manufacture their mounts, scopes, and related products by making the most of elements which are durable and long lasting. This includes the Meopta Optika6 5-30×56 BDC 34mm – FFP 1st Focal Plane DichroTech (653600) by Meopta. For additional shooting items, visit their website.
Information About Scopes
Rifle scopes allow you to precisely align a rifle at various targets by lining up your eye with the target at range. They do this through magnification by utilizing a series of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s alignment can be adjusted for consideration of many natural elements like wind speed and elevation increases or decreases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to help the shooter understand precisely where the bullet will land based on the sight picture you are seeing with the scope as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. A lot of modern-day rifle scopes have around 11 parts which are arranged within and on the exterior of the scope. These parts consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, adjustment turrets or dials, focus rings, and other elements. Learn about the eleven parts of rifle scopes.
The Types of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. The style of focal plane an optic has determines where the reticle or crosshair lies in relation to the optic’s magnification. It actually implies the reticle is behind or ahead of the magnification lens of the scope. Looking for the very best kind of rifle glass is based on what sort of shooting or hunting you plan on doing.
First Focal Plane Glass Details
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the zoom lens. These kinds of scopes are useful for:
- Quick acquisition, far away types of shooting
- Shooting circumstances where computations are small
- Experienced shooters who recognize their aim point “hold over” and “lead” equations for their long gun
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is enlarged and takes up more visual sight space than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Glass
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) feature the reticle behind the zoom lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick reticle measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick.
- Long distance styles of shooting where shooters have increased time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most of the shots take place within much shorter ranges and proximities
- Shooters who like a clearer optic sight picture without space taken up by the larger size FFP reticle
Zoom for Glass
The amount of scope zoom you need on your optic is based on the style of shooting you would like to do. Pretty much every type of rifle optic delivers some degree of magnification. The level of magnification a scope gives is determined by the dimension, thickness, and curvatures of the lens glass inside of the rifle optic. The magnifying level of the scope is the “power” of the glass. This implies what the shooter is looking at through the scope is amplified times the power factor of what can typically be seen by human eyes.
About Fixed Power Lens Rifle Optics
A single power rifle scope and optic comes with a zoom number designator like 4×32. This means the magnification power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this kind of scope can not fluctuate since it is a fixed power scope.
Variable Power Lens Glass
Variable power rifle scopes have adjustable power. These types of scopes will list the magnification degree in a configuration like 2-10×32. These numbers mean the magnification of the scope could be set in between 2x and 10x power. This also incorporates the power levels in-between 2 and 10. The power shift is achieved by employing the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell piece.
Power Levels and Range
Here are some suggested scope powers and the distances where they could be successfully used. Highly magnified rifle scope glass will not be as useful as lower magnification level scopes since too much magnification can be a negative aspect depending on your shooting distance. The very same idea relates to extended ranges where the shooter needs adequate power to see where to best aim the rifle.
Details on Lens Covering
All contemporary rifle scope and optic lenses are layered. There are different types and qualities of glass coatings. When looking at high end rifle targeting devices, Lens finishing can be a significant element of defining the rifle’s capability. The lenses are among the most crucial components of the glass considering they are what your eye sees through while sighting a rifle in on the point of impact. The finish on the lenses safeguards the lens surface area and even improves anti glare capabilities from refracted natural light and color perception.
ED Versus HD Rifle Glass
Some rifle scope companies will also use “HD” or high-definition lens finishings that use various processes, aspects, polarizations, and chemical applications to draw out a wide range of colors and viewable definition through lenses. This high-definition covering is commonly used with higher density lens glass which decreases light’s opportunity to refract by means of the lens glass. Some scope vendors use “HD” to describe “ED” indicating extra-low dispersion glass. ED handles how colors are represented on the chroma spectrum and the chromatic deviance or aberration which is similarly called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration may be obvious over things with well defined outlines as light hits the object from various angles.
Single Covering Versus Multi-Coating
Various optic lenses can also have various finishes used to them. All lenses generally have at least some type of treatment or coating used to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic.
Single layered lenses have a treatment applied to them which is usually a protective and improving multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can protect the lens from scratches while reducing glare and other less useful things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the optic. The quality of a single coated lens depends upon the scope designer and just how much you paid for it. The scope’s maker and cost are indications of the lens quality.
Some scope producers also make it a point to define if their optic lenses are covered or “multi” covered. This means the lens has had multiple treatments applied to the surfaces of the glass. If a lens receives multiple treatments, it can indicate that a manufacturer is taking multiple steps to combat different natural factors like an anti-glare coating, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion coating, followed by a hydrophilic finish. This also doesn’t necessarily mean the multi-coated lens is much better than a single layered lens. Being “better” hinges on the manufacturer’s lens treatment innovation and the quality of components used in constructing the rifle optic.
Hydrophobic Finishing for Scopes
Water on a scope lens does not help with preserving a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Numerous top of the line and premium scope producers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic covering. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a fine example of this kind of treatment. It deals with the surface area of the Steiner scope lens so the water molecules can not bind to it or develop surface tension. The outcome is that the water beads move off of the scope to maintain a clear, water free sight picture.
Optic Mounting Options
Mounting approaches for scopes come in a few choices. There are the standard scope rings which are individually mounted to the scope and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These different kinds of mounts also normally can be found in quick release versions which use toss levers which enable rifle shooters to quickly mount and dismount the scope.
Hex Key Rifle Scope Ring Mounts
Standard, clamp-on type mounting scope rings use hex head screws to fix to the flattop design Picatinny scope mount rails on the tops of rifles. These varieties of scope mounts use a pair of individual rings to support the optic, and are usually constructed from 7075 T6 billet aluminum or similar materials which are manufactured for far away accuracy shooting. This type of scope mount is effective for rifles which are in need of a durable, rock solid mount which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved about or abuse the rifle takes. These are the style of mounts you really want to have for a faithful scope system on a long distance hunting or tournament firearm which will rarely need to be altered or adjusted. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can also be used on screws to stop the hex screw threads from backing out after they are mounted firmly in place. An example of these mounting rings are the 30mm type made by Vortex Optics. The set normally costs around $200 USD
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Glass Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly detach a scope and attach it to a different rifle. Several scopes can even be switched out if they all use a similar style mount. These types of mounts are convenient for rifles which are transported a lot, to swap out the optic from the rifle for protection, or for scopes which are used between multiple rifles or are situationally focused.
Sealing and Gas Purging for Rifle Glass Tubes
Moisture inside your rifle optic can ruin a day of shooting and your pricey optic by bringing about fogging and producing residue inside of the scope tube. Many scopes prevent moisture from going into the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are waterproof.
Optic Gas Purging
Another component of avoiding the accumulation of moisture within the rifle scope tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Considering that this area is currently taken up by the gas, the glass is less impacted by condition shifts and pressure differences from the external environment which may possibly permit water vapor to permeate in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to look for.
