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Rifle Scope Product Details
Meprolight MX3-T 3X Magnifying Scope with Tactical Flip Mount
Achieve everything you aim for with the Meprolight MX3-T 3x Magnifying Scope! The Mepro MX3-T is compact and lightweight yet extremely durable. The elevation and windage dials feature of the Mepro MX3-T allow for precise adjustment. Also, the wide FOV enables rapid target acquisition with both eyes open.
3x Magnification
The Mepro MX3-T features 3x power magnifiers which allow the shooter to engage targets at greater distance. It quickly and securely attaches the Picatinny rail behind the reflex sight and will not interfere with the weapon’s operation. With the magnifier in the out-of-way, resting-position, the shooter has wide FOV for increased situational awareness.
Quick Release Adapter
As long-distance targets appear, quickly flip it into position to engage without having to re-zero your rifle. The Mepro MX3-T has an integrated quick-release pull-back adapter that allows it to ride to the side when not needed. It can be configured for the right side or left side ride when not needed.
Rifle Scope Product Features
DURABLE DESIGN: Achieve everything you aim for with the Meprolight MX3-T 3x Magnifying Scope! The Mepro MX3-T is compact and lightweight yet extremely durable
PRECISE ADJUSTMENT: The elevation and windage dials feature of the Mepro MX3-T allow for precise adjustment. Also, the wide FOV enables rapid target acquisition with both eyes open
3X MAGNIFICATION: The Mepro MX3-T features 3x power magnifiers which allow the shooter to engage targets at greater distance. It quickly and securely attaches the Picatinny rail behind the reflex sight and will not interfere with the weapon’s operation. With the magnifier in the out-of-way, resting-position, the shooter has wide FOV for increased situational awareness
QUICK RELEASE ADAPTER: As long-distance targets appear, quickly flip it into position to engage without having to re-zero your rifle. The Mepro MX3-T has an integrated quick-release pull-back adapter that allows it to ride to the side when not needed
CONFIGURATION: It can be configured for the right side or left side ride when not needed
About the Meprolight Brand
Meprolight is a premium manufacturer for long gun scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other components used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They style and supply their products using elements which are durable and long lasting. This includes the Meprolight MX3-T 3X Magnifying Scope with Tactical Flip Mount by Meprolight. For more shooting items, visit their website.
About Scopes
Rifle scopes allow you to exactly align a rifle at various targets by lining up your eye with the target over a range. They accomplish this through zoom by utilizing a set of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s alignment can be dialed in for consideration of various natural aspects like wind and elevation increases to make up 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 using the scope as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the target. Many modern-day rifle scopes have about eleven parts which are located internally and outside of the optic. These parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, modification turrets, focus rings, and other parts. Learn about the eleven parts of optics.
About Rifle Scope Types
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. Choosing the best type of rifle optic depends on what type of shooting you plan to do.
About First Focal Plane Glass
First focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle before the zoom lens. This induces the reticle to increase in size based upon the amount of magnification being used. The benefit is that the reticle measurements are the same at the enhanced distance as they are at the non amplified distance. One tick on a mil-dot reticle at 100 yards with no “zoom” is still the identical tick at 100 yards by using 5x “zoom”. These kinds of scopes are beneficial for:
- Quick acquisition, far away kinds of shooting
- Shooting situations where calculations are minimal
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their target “hold over” as well as “lead” correlations for their weapon
- 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) include the reticle behind the zoom lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” 100 yard tick measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick measurement.
- Long distance kinds of shooting where shooters have increased time to make ballistic estimations
- Shooting where most shots happen within shorter proximities and ranges
- Shooters who select a clearer optic sight picture without area taken up by the bigger FFP reticle
Zoom for Rifle Scopes
The measure of scope magnification you need on your optic depends upon the style of shooting you wish to do. Just about every kind of rifle scope supplies some level of zoom. The volume of zoom a scope delivers is determined by the dimension, thickness, and curvatures of the lenses 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 magnified times the power factor of what can usually be seen by human eyes.
Fixed Single Power Lens Rifle Scopes
A single power rifle optic comes with a zoom number designator like 4×32. This indicates the magnification power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this type of scope can not fluctuate since it is a fixed power scope.
Variable Power Lens Rifle Glass Info
Variable power rifle scopes have adjustable power. It will list the magnification amount in a configuration such as 2-10×32. These numbers imply the zoom of the scope can be adjusted between 2x and 10x power. This additionally involves the powers in-between 2 and 10. The power modification is achieved utilizing the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
Glass Power and Ranges
Here are some advised scope power levels and the ranges where they may be efficiently used. High power scopes will not be as useful as lower powered scopes considering too much zoom can be a negative aspect depending on your shooting distance. The exact same idea goes for extended distances where the shooter needs enough power to see precisely where to properly aim the rifle.
Details on Rifle Glass Lens Coating
All modern rifle optic lenses are layered. There are different types and qualities of finishes. When researching high end rifle optics and scope units, Lens coating can be a very important aspect of defining the rifle’s capability. The glass lenses are one of the most vital components of the glass as they are what your eye looks through while sighting a rifle in on the point of impact. The covering on the lenses shields the lens exterior as well as helps with anti glare capabilities from excess natural light and color exposure.
Info on Rifle Glass Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some scope manufacturers also use “HD” or high-definition lens coatings which use different processes, aspects, polarizations, and chemicals to draw out separate colors and viewable quality through the lens. Some scope producers use “HD” to refer to “ED” indicating extra-low dispersion glass.
Single Coating Versus Multi-Coating for Rifle Scopes
Different optic lenses can even have different finishes applied to them. All lenses normally have at least some type of treatment or coating applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic. This is due to the fact that the lens isn’t just a raw piece of glass. It becomes part of the carefully tuned optic. It must have a coating put on it so that it will be efficiently usable in numerous kinds of environments, degrees of sunlight (full light VS shade), and other shooting conditions.
This lens treatment can protect the lens from scratches while decreasing glare and other less beneficial things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the scope. The quality of a single layered lens depends on the scope manufacturer and how much you paid for it.
Some scope producers similarly make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” coated. Being “much better” depends on the manufacturer’s lens treatment technology and the quality of products used in developing the rifle scope.
Hydrophobic Lens Finishing
Water on a lens does not help with keeping a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Lots of top of the line and military grade scope makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic finishing which is water repellent.
Alternatives for Installing Scopes on Long Guns
Mounting solutions for scopes come in a couple of choices. There are the standard scope rings which are separately installed to the scope and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These various kinds of mounts also typically come in quick release versions which use throw levers which enable rifle shooters to rapidly mount and dismount the optics.
Hex Key Scope Rings
Normal, clamp style mounting scope rings use hex head screws to mount to the flattop design Picatinny scope mount rails on rifles. These types of scope mounts use a couple of separate rings to support the optic, and are often made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which is designed for long range accuracy shooting. This type of scope mount is perfect 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.
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Optic Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly connect and take off a scope from a rifle before reattaching it to a different rifle. Multiple scopes can even be swapped out if they all use a compatible design mount. These types of mounts are handy for rifles which are transferred a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protection, or for optics which are used in between several rifles or are situationally focused.
Scope Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Moisture inside your rifle optic can mess up a day of shooting and your expensive optic by triggering fogging and creating residue inside of the scope tube. The majority of scopes avoid moisture from getting in the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Scope Gas Purging
Another part of avoiding the buildup of wetness within the rifle scope’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Since this space is already taken up by the gas, the scope is less altered by climate changes and pressure variations from the outdoor environment which may potentially allow water vapor to leak in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to seek out.
