Description
Rifle Scope Product Details
Nikon ProStaff 7 3-12X42 BDC Riflescope
The prostaff 7 is an amazing optic at an affordable price for the average shooter. Featuring a quick focus eyepiece you will be Ale to quickly get on target and get the job done in a timely manner.
Rifle Scope Product Features
Objective lens diameter 42mm
Eye relief. 4″-3.7″
Exit pupil 4.2 mm
Tube diameter 30mm
Reticle adjustment 100 yds 1/4 inch
Spot On Ballistic Match Technology
The Prostaff 7 series, like all of Nikon’s riflescopes, are optimized for use with Nikon Spot On Ballistic Match Technology. Spot On allows you to discover all of the exact aiming points on your scope’s reticle at various yardages for your specific ammunition and load.
Powerful Performance for Low-Light Situations
Low-light situations require superior glass and light gathering ability. Nikon’s Prostaff 7 riflescope has all the features to ensure a successful hunt ” especially in those crucial times near dawn and dusk. Built with Nikon’s high-quality Fully-Multicoated lenses, 30mm main body tubes and 4-time zoom magnification range
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BDC Reticle
The BDC’s unique see-through ballistic circles offer an incredible advantage for long range shooting, yet allow a normal sight picture for shorter-range shots where the crosshair itself is the aiming point. The various aiming points built into the BDC reticle allows hunters to hold ‘dead-on’ at ranges exceeding those previously thought possible and can be utilized with Nikon’s Spot On Ballistic Match Technology to give you exact aiming points at various yardages. Finally, you can take the guesswork out of figuring elevation and bullet drop compensation.
Built With 30mm Main Body Tubes
The Prostaff 7 riflescope has a 30mm main body tube that provides a wider maximum internal adjustment range (90-140 MOA depending on model), which is useful for dialing in the elevation and windage adjustments needed for long-range shots.
Nikon’s Fully Multicoated Lenses
Multiple layers of anti-reflective compounds on every glass surface provide bright and vivid sight pictures and optimum light transmission and maximum brightness from dawn to dusk.
Quick Focus Eyepiece
Focusing the reticle is extremely easy and intuitive, thanks to the quick focus eyepiece. Simply turn the dial to adjust and instantly bring the reticle into sharp focus.
Hand Turn -inch Adjustments
Reticle adjustments are made in -inch click-stop moves you can both feel and hear, and with no backlash to make your shot creep off target. Positive click reticle adjustments get you zeroed in quicker and maintain your setting-even with repeated recoil and under rugged conditions.
4-Time Zoom Range
Whether the situation calls for a long-range shot or a close-range shot, the Prostaff 7 has you covered, thanks to a 4-time zoom ratio on all models.
Water proof/ Fog proof/ Shock proof
Prostaff 7 riflescopes are Nitrogen filled and O-Ring sealed for complete waterproof, fog proof and shockproof performance.
Generous Eye Relief
Keeps your brow safe-even with the heaviest recoiling cartridges, lightweight rifles, and severe shooting angles. Long eye relief, also known as high-eyepoint design, provides a clear field of view for everyone, even when wearing eye protection.
Spring-Loaded Instant Zero-Reset Turrets
The Prostaff 7 sports Nikon’s Spring-Loaded Instant Zero-Reset Turrets that allow the user to return the turrets to the zero mark after sighting in, so that subsequent adjustments are simpler. Just sight-in as usual, then lift the spring-loaded adjustment knob, rotate to your ‘zero’, and reengage. Field adjustments are now as simple as dialing-in your subsequent ranges.
About the Nikon Brand
Nikon is a premium supplier for weapon scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other components used for guns like rifles and long guns. They innovate and manufacture their mounts and related products by choosing building materials which are durable and long lasting. This includes the Nikon ProStaff 7 3-12X42 BDC Riflescope by Nikon. For additional shooting items, visit their website.
About Rifle Optics
Rifle scopes allow you to specifically align a rifle at different targets by lining up your eye with the target at range. They do this through zoom by employing a series of lenses within the scope. The scope’s alignment can be adapted to account for different environmental things like wind and elevation increases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to understand precisely where the bullet will land based on the sight picture you are seeing using the optic as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the target. Many modern rifle scopes and optics have about eleven parts which are arranged within and outside of the scope body. These scope parts consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, elevation turrets, objective focus rings, and other components. Learn about the eleven parts of scopes.
About Rifle Optic Types
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Selecting the optimal type of rifle scope is based on what type of shooting you plan on doing.
About First Focal Plane Optics
Focal plane scopes (FFP) include the reticle in front of the magnification lens. These types of scopes are useful for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance types of shooting
- Shooting circumstances where computations are minor
- Experienced shooters who know their aim point “hold over” plus “lead” equations for their long gun
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is bigger and occupies more visual eyesight space than a SFP reticle
Info on Second Focal Plane Scopes
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) feature the reticle to the rear of the zoom lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick.
- Long distance types of shooting where shooters have increased time to make ballistic computations
- Shooting where most of the shots happen within shorter distances and ranges
- Shooters who desire a clearer optic sight picture with less room used up by the bigger FFP reticle
Magnification for Rifle Optics
The quantity of zoom a scope supplies is identified by the size, density, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The magnification of the scope is the “power” of the scope.
Fixed Single Power Lens Optics
A single power rifle scope or optic will have a zoom number designator like 4×32. This suggests the magnification power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this kind of scope can not fluctuate considering that it is fixed.
Info on Variable Power Lens Glass
Variable power rifle scopes can be changed between magnification power levels. These types of scopes will note the zoom degree in a format such as 2-10×32. These numbers imply the magnification of the scope can be set between 2x and 10x power. This also utilizes the powers in-between 2 and 10. The power adjustment is accomplished by applying the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell piece.
Rifle Glass Power Level and Ranges
Here are some advised scope powers and the distances where they can be effectively used. Bear in mind that higher magnification optics and scopes will not be as effective as lower magnification level optics due to the fact that too much zoom can be a negative thing in certain situations. The same idea applies to longer distances where the shooter needs adequate power to see precisely where to best aim the rifle at the target.
Lens Coating for Rifle Scopes
All contemporary rifle scope and optic lenses are coated. There are various types and qualities of finishes. Lens finishing can be a crucial element of a rifle when considering high end rifle optics and scope systems. The glass lenses are among the most vital parts of the optic considering they are what your eye sees through while sighting a rifle in on the point of impact. The coating on the lenses protects the lens exterior and assists with anti glare capabilities from refracted direct sunlight and color visibility.
About Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some optic makers even use “HD” or high-def lense finishes which take advantage of different processes, components, polarizations, and chemicals to draw out various color ranges and viewable definition through lenses. This HD finish is normally used with greater density lens glass which drops light’s capability to refract through the lens glass. Some scope brands use “HD” to describe “ED” signifying extra-low dispersion glass. ED handles how certain colors are presented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic aberration or difference which is also called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration may be obvious around things with defined shapes as light hits the item from various angles.
Single Covering Versus Multi-Coating for Rifle Scopes
Different optic lenses can likewise have various finishes applied to them. All lenses usually have at least some type of treatment or coating applied to them before being used in a rifle scope or optic.
This lens treatment can offer protection to the lens from scratches while decreasing glare and other less helpful 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 similarly make it a point to define if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” coated. Being “better” depends on the producer’s lens treatment innovation and the quality of products used in constructing the rifle scope.
What to Know About Anti-water Finish
Water on an optic’s lens does not improve preserving a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Lots of top of the line and high-end scope manufacturers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic coating. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a good example of this sort of treatment. It treats the surface area of the Steiner scope lens so the water molecules can not bind to it or create surface tension. The outcome is that the water beads sheet off of the scope to maintain a clear, water free sight picture.
Choices for Mounting Rifle Glass on Long Guns
Installing approaches for scopes are available in a few options. There are the basic scope rings which are separately installed to the scope and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These various types of mounts also usually can be found in quick release variations which use manual levers which enable rifle shooters to rapidly mount and dismount the optics.
Hex Key Rifle Optic Ring Mounting Solutions
Standard, clamp design mounting scope rings use hex head screws to mount to the flattop style Picatinny scope mount rails on rifles. These types of scope mounts use two different rings to support the optic, and are often made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are developed for long distance precision shooting. This type of scope mount is excellent for rifles which need a resilient, sound mount which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abuse the rifle takes.
Quick-Release Cantilever Scope Rings
These kinds of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to rapidly connect and detach a scope from a rifle. If they all use a similar style mount, a number of scopes can often be swapped out on the range. The quick detach mount style is CNC machined from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers connect firmly to a flat top type Picatinny rail. This enables the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, taken off of the rifle, and remounted back on the rifle while retaining precision. These types of mounts come in practical for shooting platforms which are transferred between vehicles a lot, to take off the scope glass from the rifle for protection, or for optics which are employed 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
Info on Scope Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle optic can mess up a day of shooting and your expensive optic by causing fogging and producing residue inside of the scope tube. A lot of scopes avoid moisture from going into the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Rifle Optic Gas Purging
Another component of avoiding the buildup of wetness inside of the rifle optic’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Given that this area is currently occupied by the gas, the glass is less impacted by temp alterations and pressure variations from the outdoor environment which may potentially enable water vapor to permeate in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to seek out.
