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Rifle Scope Product Details
MK Machining Athlon Optics – Athlon Midas Tactical w Carbon Fiber Throw Lever & Billet Scope Level
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Rifle Scope Product Features
MADE IN USA – Carbon Fiber Throw Lever & Billet Scope Level Included
ADVANCED FULLY MULTI-COATED LENSES gives you better light transmission to bring optimum brightness and true color across the entire light spectrum
EXTRA-LOW DISPERSION GLASS gives you an image with little or no chromatic fringe for an ultimate clearest and sharpest image.
ZERO STOP ELEVATION TURRET
About the MK Machining Brand
MK Machining is a premium maker for firearm scopes, optics, mounts, and other components used for guns like rifles and long guns. They design and make their mounts, scopes, and related products using materials which are long lasting and resilient. This includes the MK Machining Athlon Optics – Athlon Midas Tactical w Carbon Fiber Throw Lever & Billet Scope Level by MK Machining. For additional shooting products, visit their site.
Rifle Optic Facts
Rifle scopes enable you to specifically aim a rifle at various targets by aligning your eye with the target over a distance. They do this through magnifying the target by using a set of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adjusted for consideration of separate environmental factors 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 upon the sight picture you are seeing via the optic as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the target. The majority of contemporary rifle scopes and optics have around eleven parts which are located within and on the exterior of the optic. These optic pieces include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, adjustment dials, focus rings, and other components. Learn about the eleven parts of rifle scopes.
The Styles of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. Deciding on the perfect type of rifle optic is based on what type of shooting you plan on doing.
First Focal Plane Optic Details
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the zoom lens. These styles of scopes are beneficial for:
- Quick acquisition, far away types of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where computations are marginal
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their aim point “hold over” and “lead” relationships for their weapon
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is bigger and occupies more visual sight space than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Glass Details
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) include the reticle behind the zoom lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” 100 yard tick would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick.
- Far away styles of shooting where shooters have extra time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most of the shots take place within much shorter ranges and proximities
- Shooters who choose a clearer optic sight picture with less area taken up by the larger sized FFP reticle
Optic Magnification
The quantity of scope zoom you need on your glass depends upon the style of shooting you desire to do. Almost every type of rifle glass supplies some degree of zoom. The amount of zoom a scope gives is identified by the dimension, thickness, and curvatures of the lenses within the rifle scope. The zoom of the optic is the “power” of the glass. This indicates what the shooter is observing through the scope is amplified times the power aspect of what can generally be seen by human eyes.
About Single Power Lens Optics
A single power rifle scope and optic uses a zoom number designator like 4×32. This indicates the zoom power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this kind of optic can not adjust given that it is a set power scope.
Info on Variable Power Lens Optics
Variable power rifle scopes use variable power levels. The power change is accomplished by using the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
Glass Power Level and Range Correlation
Here are some suggested scope powers and the ranges where they can be successfully used. Highly magnified scopes will not be as effective as lower magnification scopes because too much magnification can be a bad thing. The same concept applies to extended ranges where the shooter needs to have increased power to see exactly where to best aim the rifle.
Rifle Scope Lens Coating
All modern-day rifle scope and optic lenses are covered in special coatings. There are various types and qualities of glass coverings. When looking at luxury rifle optical systems, Lens covering can be a very important aspect of a rifle. The glass lenses are one of the most crucial components of the optic since they are what your eye looks through while sighting a rifle in on the target. The covering on the lenses shields the lens surface and even assists with anti glare capabilities from refracted light and color discernibility.
About Optic Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some scope producers also use “HD” or high-definition lens finishes which use various procedures, chemicals, components, and polarizations to draw out a wide range of colors and viewable definition through the lens. Some scope makers use “HD” to refer to “ED” meaning extra-low dispersion glass.
Single Rifle Scope Lens Coating Versus Multi-Coating
Various optic lenses can even have different finishings applied to them. All lenses typically have at least some type of treatment or coating applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic. Due to the fact that the lens isn’t simply a raw piece of glass, they require performance enhancing coatings. It becomes part of the finely tuned optic. It requires a coating to be applied to it so that the lens will be efficiently functional in many types of environments, degrees of light (full light VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
Single coated lenses have a treatment applied to them which is typically a protective and improving multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can preserve the lens from scratches while minimizing glare and other less advantageous things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the scope. The quality of a single layered lens depends upon the scope developer and how much you paid for it. Both are signs of the lens quality.
Some scope makers also make it a point to define if their optic lenses are layered or “multi” covered. This suggests the lens has multiple treatments applied to the surfaces. If a lens gets multiple treatments, it can show that a maker is taking multiple actions to combat various natural aspects like an anti-glare finishing, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion finish, followed by a hydrophilic covering. This also does not necessarily indicate the multi-coated lens will perform better than a single covered lens. Being “much better” depends on the producer’s lens treatment solutions and the quality of glass used in developing the rifle optic.
Anti-water Glass Lens Coating
Water on a lens does not 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 hydrophilic or hydrophobic coating.
Rifle Scope Mounting Choices
Mounting options for scopes come in a few options. There are the basic scope rings which are separately mounted to the optic and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These various types of mounts also normally can be found in quick release variations which use throw levers which allow rifle shooters to quickly mount and dismount the scope.
Hex Key Rifle Optic Rings
Standard, clamp style mounting scope rings use hex head screws to fix to the flattop design Picatinny scope mount rails on rifles. These varieties of scope mounts use a pair of detached rings to support the optic, and are normally constructed from 7075 T6 billet aluminum or similar materials which are designed for long distance accuracy shooting. This kind of scope mount is great for rifle systems which require a long lasting, hard use mount which will not shift no matter just how much the scope is moved or abuse the rifle takes. These are the style of mounts you should get for a devoted optics setup on a far away hunting or hard target interdiction rifle which will almost never need to be modified or adjusted. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can additionally be used on the mount screws to prevent the hex screw threads from backing out after they are installed securely in place. An example of these mounting rings are the 30mm type made by the Vortex Optics brand. The set normally costs around $200 USD
Quick-Release Cantilever Scope Ring Mounting Solutions
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly attach and detach a scope from a rifle before reattaching it to a different rifle. Several scopes can also be switched out if they all use a similar style mount. These types of mounts come in handy for rifles which are transferred a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protecting the scope, or for scopes which are used between multiple rifles.
Glass Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle scope can ruin a day of shooting and your costly optic by triggering fogging and making residue within the scope tube. Most scopes prevent moisture from going into the optical tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are waterproof. Generally, these water resistant optics can be immersed under 20 or 30 feet of water before the water pressure can force moisture past the O-rings. This should be sufficient moisture content prevention for standard use rifles for hunting and sporting purposes, unless you anticipate taking your rifle aboard watercrafts and are worried about the scope still functioning if it goes overboard and you can still rescue the gun.
Gas Purged Rifle Optic Tubes
Another element of avoiding the buildup of wetness inside of the rifle scope tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Since this area is already taken up by the gas, the scope is less affected by temperature level shifts and pressure differences from the outside environment which may potentially enable water vapor to seep in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to look for.
