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Rifle Scope Cover Product Details
Nikon Water Resistant Neoprene 50mm 12.5in Long ScopeCoat
Nikon Water Resistant Neoprene 50mm 12.5in Long ScopeCoat Thick, nylon-faced 6mm neoprene ScopeCoat shields your scope’s lenses from moisture, dust and scratches. With up to 50mm objective lens diameter, ScopeCoat snaps on and off quickly without cumbersome bands, clips, or strings and stretch approximately 1.5 inch longer than stated length to allow universal fit. – Fabric/Material: Nylon/Neoprene, – Attachment/Mount Type: Slip On, – Objective Lens Diameter: 50, – Length: 12.5 ABOUT NIKON: For over 90 years, Nikon has been making premium quality optical products for all types of outdoor pursuits. This long history of experience in engineering quality optics, aided by modern computer design, results in optical systems that achieve an ideal balance of maximized light transmission, high resolution and razor sharp, aberration-free images. With these optimized designs, Nikon utilizes the highest quality materials, superior production capabilities and strict quality control to build, service and support premium sport optics products.
Rifle Scope Cover Product Features
NIKONS’ SCOPECOAT is a pull on cover that protects your scope and exterior lenses from dirt, dust, snow and scratching
LENS PROTECTION: ScopeCoat is water resistant, shields your scope’s lenses from moisture
MATERIAL: Neoprene case draws moisture and condensation away from scope
UNIVERSAL FIT: ScopeCoat stretches approximately 1.5 inch longer than stated length to allow universal fit
LENGTH: 12.5″ long, ScopeCoat snaps on and off quickly without cumbersome bands, clips, or strings
About the Nikon Manufacturer
Nikon is a premium company for long gun scopes, optics, mounts, and other accessories used for guns like rifles and long guns. They innovate and supply their mounts, scopes, and related products using elements which are long lasting and durable. This includes the Nikon Water Resistant Neoprene 50mm 12.5in Long ScopeCoat by Nikon. For more shooting products, visit their site.
All About Rifle Optics
Rifle scopes enable you to precisely align a rifle at different targets by lining up your eye with the target over a range. They accomplish this through zoom by employing a set of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adjusted for consideration of separate natural things like wind and elevation increases to account for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to help shooters understand exactly where the bullet will hit based upon the sight picture you are viewing with the optic as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the target. A lot of modern rifle optics have around 11 parts which are located inside and on the exterior of the scope. These optic pieces consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, modification dials or turrets, objective focus rings, and other components. See all eleven parts of a rifle optical system.
The Styles of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. The sort of focal plane an optic has decides where the reticle or crosshair is located in relation to the scopes zoom. It actually means the reticle is situated behind or before the magnifying lens of the scope. Picking the best type of rifle glass depends on what sort of shooting or hunting you intend on undertaking.
First Focal Plane Glass Info
First focal plane scopes (FFP) include the reticle before the magnifying lens. This causes the reticle to increase in size based on the amount of zoom being used. The result is that the reticle measurements are the same at the magnified distance as they are at the non amplified distance. For example, one tick on a mil-dot reticle at one hundred yards with no “zoom” is still the corresponding tick at one hundred yards using 5x “zoom”. These kinds of scopes are valuable for:
- Quick acquisition, far away types of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where calculations are very little
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their aim point “hold over” and also “lead” ratios for their firearms
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is enlarged and occupies more visual sight room than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Glass
Second focal plane optics (SFP) include the reticle to the rear of the magnifying lens. This triggers the reticle to remain at the exact same scale in relation to the quantity of magnification being used. The final result is that the reticle dimensions alter based on the magnification employed to shoot over greater ranges considering the reticle markings present different increments which fluctuate with the zoom. In the FFP example with the SFP optic, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick reticle measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick measurement. These styles of glass work for:
- Long distance kinds of shooting where shooters have extra time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most of the shots happen within shorter proximities and ranges
- Shooters who would like a clearer optic picture with less area taken up by the larger sized FFP reticle
Zoom for Glass
The amount of zoom a scope provides is determined by the diameter, thickness, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The magnification of the scope is the “power” of the scope.
About Fixed Power Lens Rifle Optics
A single power rifle 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 zoom of this kind of optic can not fluctuate considering that it is a set power scope.
Variable Power Lens Rifle Glass
Variable power rifle scopes can be adjusted between magnification levels. It will note the zoom degree 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 utilizes the power levels in-between 2 and 10. The power adaptation is achieved using the power ring component of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell piece.
Rifle Glass Power and Ranges
Here are some advised scope power levels and the ranges where they could be efficiently used. Highly magnified rifle scope glass will not be as efficient as lower powered rifle scope glass given that too much magnification can be a negative aspect depending on your shooting distance. The very same idea goes for extended ranges where the shooter needs adequate power to see precisely where to properly aim the rifle at the target.
Lens Covering for Scopes
All modern rifle scope and optic lenses are covered in special coatings. There are different types and qualities of glass lens coverings. When shopping for high end rifle optics and scope units, Lens coating can be an important component of defining the rifle’s capability. The glass lenses are one of the most key pieces of the scope given that they are what your eye sees through while sighting a rifle in on the target. The covering on the lenses safeguards the lens surface and also improves anti glare capabilities from excess sunshine and color profiles.
ED Versus HD Scopes
Some glass makers additionally use “HD” or high-def glass coatings that take advantage of different processes, rare earth compounds, components, and polarizations to draw out a wide range of color ranges and viewable target definition through the lens. This high-definition coating is typically used with greater density lens glass which reduces light’s capability to refract through the lens glass. Some scope manufacturers use “HD” to describe “ED” suggesting extra-low dispersion glass. ED handles how certain colors are represented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic aberration which is also called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration is often obvious over objects with hard edges and shapes as light hits the object from certain angles.
Rifle Scope Lens Single Coating Versus Multi-Coating
Various scope lenses can also have different coatings applied to them. All lenses usually have at least some type of treatment or covering applied to them before they are used in a rifle scope or optic. This is since the lens isn’t just a raw piece of glass. It is part of the carefully tuned optic. It needs to have a finishing applied to it so that the lens will be optimally usable in many kinds of environments, degrees of light (full light VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
Single covered lenses have a treatment applied to them which is typically a protective and improving multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can shield the lens from scratches while lowering glare and other less beneficial 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. Both the make and cost are indications of the lens quality.
Some scope producers likewise make it a point to define if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” coated. This indicates the lens has numerous treatments applied to the surfaces. If a lens gets numerous treatments, it can prove that a producer is taking numerous actions to fight various natural elements like an anti-glare finishing, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion covering, followed by a hydrophilic finishing. This additionally doesn’t always mean the multi-coated lens is much better than a single layered lens. Being “much better” is dependent on the manufacturer’s lens treatment solutions and the quality of materials used in constructing the rifle optic.
Hydrophobic Covering for Rifle Scopes
Water on a scope lens doesn’t assist with retaining a clear sight picture through a scope whatsoever. Lots of top of the line or high-end optic makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic covering. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a fine example of this kind of treatment. It provides protection for the surface area of the Steiner glass lens so the H2O molecules can not bind to it or create surface tension. The result is that the water beads roll off of the scope to keep a clear, water free sight picture.
Optic Installing Choices
Mounting solutions 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 various types of mounts also usually come in quick release variations which use toss levers which permit rifle operators to quickly install and remove the scope.
Hex Key Rifle Glass Rings
Basic, clamp-on design mounting optic rings use hex head screws to install to the flattop design Picatinny scope mounting rails on the tops of rifles. These forms of scope mounts use two independent rings to support the scope, and are usually constructed from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are manufactured for far away accuracy shooting. This type of scope mount is effective for rifle systems which need to have a long lasting, rock solid mount which will not change regardless of 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 system on a reach out and touch someone scouting or interdiction long gun that will almost never need to be modified or adjusted. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can also be used to keep the hex screw threads from backing out after they are installed safely in position. An example of these mounting rings are the 30mm type from the Vortex Optics brand. The set normally costs around $200 USD
Optic Mounting Solutions with Quick-Release Cantilever Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly remove a scope and attach it to a different rifle. Several scopes can also be swapped out if they all use a similar style mount. These types of mounts come in handy for long guns which are transported a lot, to swap out the optic from the rifle for protection, or for optics which are used in between numerous rifles.
Sealing and Gas Purging for Rifle Optic Tubes
Wetness inside your rifle optic can destroy a day of shooting and your expensive optic by causing fogging and producing residue inside of the scope tube. The majority of scopes prevent moisture from going into the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
What to Know About Rifle Scope Tube Gas Purging
Another component of avoiding the buildup of moisture inside of the rifle optic’s 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 changes and pressure differences from the outside environment which could potentially allow water vapor to leak in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to look for.
