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Rifle Scope Product Details
NPZ Russian PK-1 Obzor (1P63 Zapev) Combat Scope
Legendary NPZ PK-01 Obzor combat scope. It features dual solar/tritium powered green reticle. This is really Doomsday scope. All scopes are brand new with working tritium. Indestructible mislpec construction.
Rifle Scope Product Features
No battery required, no electronic components
Tritium life is 10 years
Dual day/night reticles
Built in grey filter for high contrast conditions
Milspec quality, made by NPZ
About the NPZ Company
NPZ is a premium supplier for weapon scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other accessories used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They style and manufacture their scopes, mounts, and related products by choosing building materials which are long lasting and durable. This includes the NPZ Russian PK-1 Obzor (1P63 Zapev) Combat Scope by NPZ. For more shooting products, visit their site.
Rifle Glass Details
Rifle scopes enable you to exactly aim a rifle at various targets by aligning your eye with the target over a range. They accomplish this through magnification by utilizing a series of lenses within the scope. The scope’s alignment can be adapted for consideration of various ecological aspects like wind and elevation increases or decreases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to understand precisely where the bullet will land based on the sight picture you are seeing via the optic as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. Most modern rifle scopes have around eleven parts which are located inside and on the exterior of the scope. These scope parts consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage and elevation turrets, objective focus rings, and other parts. Learn about the eleven parts of scopes.
Rifle Glass Styles
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. Picking the finest type of rifle scope is based on what type of shooting you plan to do.
About First Focal Plane Glass
First focal plane glass (FFP) come with the reticle in front of the magnifying lens. This triggers the reticle to increase in size based on the level of magnification being used. The benefit is that the reticle measurements are the same at the enhanced range as they are at the non magnified range. One tick on a mil-dot reticle at 100 yards with no “zoom” is still the same tick at 100 yards with 5x “zoom”. These kinds of scopes work for:
- Quick acquisition, far away types of shooting
- Shooting situations where computations are very little
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their aim point “hold over” as well as “lead” relationships for their firearm
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is enlarged and occupies more visual sight room than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Scope Details
Second focal plane optics (SFP) come with 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.
- Far away styles of shooting where shooters have extra time to make ballistic estimations
- Shooting where most of the shots happen within much shorter distances and ranges
- Shooters who prefer a clearer optic sight picture without room used up by the enlarged FFP reticle
Scope Zoom
The quantity of scope zoom you need depends upon the type of shooting you plan to do. Practically every kind of rifle optic delivers some degree of magnification. The amount of magnification a scope offers is established by the size, thickness, and curves of the lens glass inside of the rifle optic. The magnifying level of the optic is the “power” of the glass. This denotes what the shooter is observing through the scope is magnified times the power factor of what can typically be seen by human eyes.
Fixed Power Lens Rifle Optic Details
A single power rifle scope uses 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 adjust given that it is a fixed power optic.
Adjustable Power Lens Rifle Scope Facts
Variable power rifle scopes use enhanced power. The power change is accomplished by making use of the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
The Power Level and Range Correlation of Optics
Here are some advised scope powers and the distances where they may be effectively used. Always remember that higher magnification optics will not be as effective as lower magnification level glass because excessive magnification can be a detractor. The exact same concept applies to extended ranges where the shooter needs to have adequate power to see exactly where to best aim the rifle.
Details on Rifle Optic Lens Covering
All cutting-edge rifle optic and scope lenses are coated. Lens covering can be an important aspect of a shooting platform when purchasing high end rifle optics and scope equipment.
HD Versus ED Rifle Optic Lens Coatings
Some glass manufacturers additionally use “HD” or high-def lense finishings which apply different procedures, elements, polarizations, and chemical applications to enhance separate colors and viewable target visibility through lenses. This high-definition finish is typically used with greater density glass which lowers light’s opportunity to refract by means of the lens glass. Some scope corporations use “HD” to describe “ED” meaning extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how certain colors are represented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic difference or aberration which is also called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration may be noticeable over things with well defined shapes as light hits the object from certain angles.
Single Rifle Scope Lens Coating Versus Multi-Coating
Various scope lenses can even have various finishes applied to them. All lenses usually have at least some kind of treatment or finish applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic. Since the lens isn’t simply a raw piece of glass, they require performance enhancing coatings. It is part of the carefully tuned optic. It must have a coating put on it so that the lens will be optimally functional in many types of environments, degrees of sunshine (full light VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
Single coated lenses have a treatment applied to them which is normally a protective and boosting multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can preserve the lens from scratches while reducing glare and other less advantageous things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the scope. The quality of a single covered lens depends upon the scope manufacturer and the amount you paid for it. Both the make and cost are signs of the lens quality.
Some scope makers likewise make it a point to define if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” coated. This suggests the lens has multiple treatments applied to the surfaces of the glass. If a lens receives numerous treatments, it can show that a maker is taking several steps to fight various environmental aspects like an anti-glare finish, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion finishing, followed by a hydrophilic finishing. This also doesn’t necessarily mean the multi-coated lens is better than a single covered lens. Being “better” hinges on the manufacturer’s lens treatment innovation and the quality of materials used in developing the rifle scope.
Hydrophobic Lens Coverings
Water on an optical lens doesn’t improve maintaining a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Many 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 good example of this sort of treatment. It provides protection for the surface area of the Steiner scope lens so the H2O particles can not bind to it or develop surface tension. The result is that the water beads sheet off of the scope to preserve a clear, water free sight picture.
Rifle Optic Installing Alternatives
Mounting options for scopes come in a few choices. There are the basic scope rings which are separately installed to the optic and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These various kinds of mounts also generally are made in quick release variations which use throw levers which allow rifle shooters to quickly mount and dismount the optics.
Hex Key Scope Ring Mounting Solutions
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 different rings to support the optic, and are often made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are designed for long distance precision shooting. This type of scope install is wonderful for rifles which need a resilient, rock solid mount which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abuse the rifle takes.
Quick-Release Cantilever Optic Ring Mounts
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly attach and remove a scope from a rifle. Multiple scopes can also be swapped out if they all use a similar style mount. The quick detach design is CNC crafted from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers fasten 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 while keeping the original sighting settings. These kinds of mounts come in convenient for shooting platforms which are carried a lot, to remove the scope glass from the rifle for protection, or for sight systems which are employed between several rifles. An example of this mount style is the 30mm mount from the Vortex Optics brand. It normally costs around $250 USD
Rifle Optic Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle optic can mess up a day of shooting and your pricey optic by bringing about fogging and producing residue inside of the scope tube. The majority of scopes avoid moisture from entering the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are waterproof.
Details on Glass Tube Gas Purging
Another part of preventing the accumulation of wetness inside of 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 glass is less influenced by condition shifts and pressure differences from the outdoor environment which could possibly allow water vapor to permeate in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to seek out.
