Description
Rifle Scope Product Details
MY Scope 1×30 Red Green Dot Reflex Optic Sight with Cantilever Mount Fits Weaver Rails, Tan Color
Tan Color: 1x30mm Objective Red Dot Sight with Red and Green Reticle
Product Features:
T6 6061 Aircraft Aluminum Body
Durable Cantilever PEPR mount for any 20mm Picatinny or Weaver rail with Quick Attachment Rail Design
Adjustable Windage and Elevation, Intensity brightness Control Settings Per Color
Fog Proof, Weather Proof, and Shock Resistant
Removable Spring loaded Flip-up Lens Covers and CR2032 Battery Included
Length: 5.25″, Width: 2.56″/65mm, Height: 2.75″/70mm, Net Weight: 9.7 oz
Rifle Scope Product Features
Red Dot Reticle: The 4 MOA dual-color illuminated dot sight with adjustable brightness and rheostat is ideal for all kinds of mid- to short range shooting.
Quality Construction: With unlimited eye-relief, fully coated optics, and anti-reflective coating, the sight is ideal for rifles, handguns, shotguns, and crossbows.
Precision Aiming: The 1x30m compact gun sight features 1/2 MOA click adjustments for precision accuracy.
Five different adjustable brightness levels for BLUE GREEN RED dot sight allow you shooting at dawn, dusk, night, or daytime freely, super bright even at sunny days outdoors.
Accessories: The sight comes with set of picatinny / weaver style base and lens covers.
About the MY Company
MY is a premium company for firearm scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other components used for guns like rifles and long guns. They design and make their scopes, mounts, and related products by choosing building materials which are long lasting and resilient. This includes the MY Scope 1×30 Red Green Dot Reflex Optic Sight with Cantilever Mount Fits Weaver Rails, Tan Color by MY. For additional shooting products, visit their website.
Rifle Scope Details
Rifle scopes permit you to exactly align a rifle at various targets by aligning your eye with the target over a distance. They do this through magnifying the target by employing a set of lenses within the scope. The scope’s alignment can be adapted to take into account many ecological factors like wind and elevation increases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to help the shooter understand exactly where the bullet will land based on the sight picture you are seeing through the optic as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the target. Most modern rifle optics have about 11 parts which are found inside and externally on the scope. These optic pieces include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage dials, focus rings, and other parts. See all eleven parts of a rifle optical system.
The Varieties of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” style of scopes. The sort of focal plane an optic has decides where the reticle or crosshair is located in relation to the optic’s magnification. It simply implies the reticle is behind or in front of the magnifying lens of the optic. Choosing the most suitable sort of rifle scope depends on what type of shooting or hunting you intend on undertaking.
First Focal Plane Optics
Focal plane scopes (FFP) come with the reticle in front of the magnifying lens. This induces the reticle to increase in size based on the level of zoom being used. The result is that the reticle measurements are the same at the amplified range as they are at the non magnified distance. One tick on a mil-dot reticle at 100 yards without “zoom” is still the identical tick at one hundred yards with 5x “zoom”. These types of scopes are useful for:
- Quick acquisition, far away kinds of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where estimations are marginal
- Experienced shooters who recognize their aim point “hold over” and “lead” relationships for their firearms
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is enlarged and takes up more visual eyesight room than a SFP reticle
About Second Focal Plane Scopes
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) come with the reticle behind the zoom lens. This triggers the reticle to remain at the very same overall size in connection with the level of zoom being used. The effect is that the reticle measurements evolve based upon the magnification used to shoot over greater distances considering the reticle measurements represent different increments which can vary with the magnification. In the FFP example with the SFP glass, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick reticle measurement. These particular sorts of scopes work for:
- Long distance types of shooting where shooters have extra time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most of the shots occur within much shorter proximities and ranges
- Shooters who want a clearer optic sight picture without space used up by the enlarged FFP reticle
Magnification for Optics
The amount of zoom a scope supplies is determined 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.
Single Power Lens Rifle Scope Info
A single power rifle scope or 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 zoom of this kind of optic can not adjust because it is a set power scope.
Adjustable Power Lens Glass
Variable power rifle scopes have adjustable power. These types of scopes will list the zoom amount in a format like 2-10×32. These numbers mean the zoom of the scope could be set between 2x and 10x power. This always involves the powers in-between 2 and 10. The power adjustment is accomplished utilizing the power ring component of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
Power and Range Correlations
Here are some recommended scope power levels and the distances where they may be efficiently used. Bear in mind that higher power optics and scopes will not be as efficient as lower magnification level scope and optics since too much magnification can be a negative thing in certain situations. The same idea applies to extended distances where the shooter needs to have enough power to see where to properly aim the rifle at the target.
Lens Finishing for Rifle Scopes
All modern rifle optic lenses are layered. Lens finishing can be an essential element of a shooting system when thinking about high end rifle optics and scope systems.
Info on Rifle Scope Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some rifle glass producers will also use “HD” or high-def glass coatings which take advantage of different procedures, rare earth compounds, polarizations, and elements to enhance numerous colors and viewable target definition through lenses. This high-def covering is frequently used with greater density lens glass which reduces light’s capability to refract through the lens glass. Some scope makers use “HD” to describe “ED” implying extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how colors are presented on the chroma spectrum and the chromatic aberration which is also called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration may be noticeable around things with hard edges and shapes as light hits the object from particular angles.
Rifle Optic Lens Single Finishing Versus Multi-Coating
Various optic lenses can even have various coverings applied to them. All lenses usually have at least some type of treatment or coating applied to them before they are used in a rifle scope or optic. This is because the lens isn’t simply a raw piece of glass. It is part of the finely tuned optic. It needs to have a coating applied to it so that it will be efficiently functional in numerous kinds of environments, degrees of light (full light VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
Single coated lenses have a treatment applied to them which is usually a protective and boosting 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 scope. The quality of a single covered lens depends on the scope designer and how much you spent for it. Both the manufacturer and amount are indicators of the lens quality.
Some scope producers also make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are covered or “multi” coated. Being “better” depends on the producer’s lens treatment technology and the quality of materials used in constructing the rifle scope.
Anti-water Lens Finishes
Water on a scope lens doesn’t improve retaining a clear sight picture through an optic in any way. Lots of top of the line or high-end scope producers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic finishing. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a good example of this type of treatment. It deals with the exterior surfaces of the Steiner scope lens so the water particles can not bind to it or create surface tension. The result is that the water beads slide off of the scope to maintain a clear, water free sight picture.
Rifle Optic Installation Choices
Installing approaches for scopes can be found in a couple of choices. There are the standard scope rings which are individually installed to the optic and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These various types of mounts also usually can be found in quick release versions which use manual levers which allow rifle shooters to quickly mount and dismount the glass.
Glass Mounts with Hex Key Rings
Normal, 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 two separate rings to support the optic, and are often made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are created for long distance accuracy shooting. This type of scope mount is wonderful for rifles which require a durable, rock solid mount which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abused.
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Optic Ring Mounts
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly connect and detach a scope from a rifle. If they all use a similar style mount, a number of scopes can also be swapped on the range. The quick detach mount style is CNC crafted from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers fasten nicely to a flat top design Picatinny rail. This permits the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, removed from the rifle, and remounted while retaining accuracy. These kinds of mounts are useful and convenient for shooting platforms which are hauled around a lot, to take off the scope from the rifle for protection, or for optics which are utilized between multiple rifles. An example of this mount type is the 30mm mount designed by the Vortex Optics manufacturer. It normally costs around $250 USD
Scope Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness 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. A lot of scopes prevent wetness from going into the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are waterproof.
Info on Rifle Optic Tube Gas Purging
Another component of preventing the accumulation of moisture within the rifle optic’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Because this space is currently taken up by the gas, the optic is less affected by temperature level alterations and pressure differences from the outdoor environment which could possibly allow water vapor to seep in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to seek out.
