Description
Rifle Scope Product Details
RETICLE 3-9x50AOE MIL-DOT Riflescope
Specifications:
Magnification: 3-9X
Objective diameter: 50mm
Color: Black
Material: Aluminum alloy
Length: 35.5cm
Weight: 740g
Package List:
1 * Riflescope
1 * Lens Cap
1 * Mount
1 * Wrench
1 * Cleaning Cloth
1 * User Manual (English)
Rifle Scope Product Features
About the RETICLE Brand
RETICLE is a premium producer for firearm scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other components used for guns like rifles and long guns. They create and make their products by using elements which are long lasting and durable. This includes the RETICLE 3-9x50AOE MIL-DOT Riflescope by RETICLE. For more shooting items, visit their website.
Rifle Glass Details
Rifle scopes enable you to precisely aim a rifle at different targets by aligning your eye with the target over a distance. They accomplish this through magnification by using a set of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s alignment can be dialed in for the consideration of many ecological aspects like wind speed and elevation increases to account for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to understand exactly where the bullet will land based upon the sight picture you are viewing through the scope as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended point of impact. The majority of modern-day rifle scopes have around 11 parts which are located inside and externally on the scope body. These parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, adjustment turrets, focus rings, and other components. Learn about the eleven parts of rifle optics.
Rifle Scope Styles
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.
First Focal Plane Optic Info
Focal plane scopes (FFP) come with the reticle in front of the magnification lens. This causes the reticle to increase in size based upon the level of magnification being used. The benefit is that the reticle measurements are the same at the enhanced distance as they are at the non amplified range. One tick on a mil-dot reticle at one hundred yards without “zoom” is still the identical tick at 100 yards with 5x “zoom”. These kinds of scopes work for:
- Quick acquisition, far away kinds of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where computations are minimal
- Experienced shooters who recognize their target “hold over” as well as “lead” relationships for their firearm
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is enlarged and takes up more visual eyesight space than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Glass
Second focal plane scopes (SFP) come with the reticle behind the zoom lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick reticle measurement would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick reticle measurement.
- Long distance styles of shooting where shooters have extra time to make ballistic computations
- Shooting where most shots happen within much shorter ranges and distances
- Shooters who want a clearer optic sight picture without room used up by the bigger FFP reticle
Glass Zoom
The amount of zoom a scope provides is figured out by the diameter, 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 Rifle Scopes
A single power rifle optic comes with a magnification number designator like 4×32. This implies the magnification power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this type of scope can not adjust given that it is fixed.
Info on Adjustable Power Lens Rifle Scopes
Variable power rifle scopes can be tweaked between magnified settings. The power change is accomplished by the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
Power and Range Correlations
Here are some advised scope power levels and the ranges where they can be efficiently used. Highly magnified glass will not be as useful as lower magnification level glass considering that too much magnification can be a negative aspect depending on your shooting distance. The very same idea applies to extended distances where the shooter needs adequate power to see where to properly aim the rifle.
Details on Lens Coating
All current rifle glass lenses are layered. Lens finish is an important element of a rifle’s setup when looking into high end rifle optics and scope setups.
HD Versus ED Lens Coatings
Some optic companies even use “HD” or high-definition lens coverings which take advantage of different procedures, rare earth compounds, components, and polarizations to enhance various color ranges and viewable target visibility through the lens. This HD finish is often used with greater density lens glass which brings down light’s potential to refract through the lens glass. Some scope suppliers use “HD” to refer to “ED” suggesting extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how colors are presented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic difference or aberration which is similarly called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration is often obvious over things with well defined outlines as light hits the object from particular angles.
Single Covering Versus Multi-Coating for Rifle Glass
Various scope lenses can even have different finishings applied to them. All lenses normally have at least some type of treatment or covering applied to them before being used in a rifle scope or optic. This is since the lens isn’t just a raw piece of glass. It becomes part of the finely tuned optic. It must have a finish placed on it so that the lens will be optimally usable in numerous types of environments, degrees of light (full light VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
Single layered lenses have a treatment applied to them which is usually a protective and improving multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can protect the lens from scratches while decreasing glare and other less helpful things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the optic. The quality of a single covered lens depends upon the scope manufacturer and just how much you spent for it. Both the make and cost are signs of the lens quality.
Some scope makers similarly make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” coated. Being “much better” depends on the manufacturer’s lens treatment innovation and the quality of products used in developing the rifle scope.
Hydrophobic Lens Finishes
Water on a scope lens does not improve keeping a clear sight picture through an optic in any way. Many top of the line or premium scope makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic finish. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a fine example of this kind of treatment. It treats the exterior surfaces of the Steiner optic lens so the H2O molecules can not bind to it or produce surface tension. The outcome is that the water beads move off of the scope to keep a clear, water free sight picture.
Options for Mounting Rifle Glass on Long Guns
Installing options for scopes are available in a few options. There are the basic scope rings which are individually installed to the scope and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These different types of mounts also generally are made in quick release variations which use throw levers which enable rifle shooters to quickly mount and remove the optics.
Hex Key Optic Rings
Standard, clamp-on design mounting scope rings use hex head screws to install to the flattop design Picatinny scope mount rails on rifles. These varieties of scope mounts use two independent rings to support the optic, and are normally made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are created for far away precision shooting. This form of scope mount is excellent for rifles which are in need of a durable, unfailing mount which will not move despite how much the scope is moved or jarring the rifle takes. These are the type of mounts you really want to have for a faithful optics setup on a far away scouting or sniper competition long gun that will seldom need to be modified or adjusted. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can also be used to stop the hex screws from wiggling out after they are mounted firmly in place. An example of these mounting rings are the 30mm style made by the Vortex Optics brand. The set normally costs around $200 USD
Quick-Release Cantilever Scope Ring Mounts
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly detach a scope from a rifle and reattach it to a different rifle. If they all use a similar design mount, several scopes can often be swapped in the field. The quick detach design is CNC crafted from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers fasten firmly to a flat top style Picatinny rail. This permits the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, removed from the rifle, and remounted back on the rifle while preserving the original sighting settings. These kinds of mounts come in handy for shooting platforms which are moved a lot, to remove the scope glass from the rifle for protection, or for optics which are adopted between a number of rifles. An example of this mount type is the 30mm mount from the Vortex Optics manufacturer. It usually costs around $250 USD
Scope Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Moisture inside your rifle scope can ruin a day on the range and your pricey optic by resulting in fogging and generating residue inside of the scope tube. Most scopes protect against humidity from going into the optical tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant. Generally, these water resistant optics can be immersed underneath 20 or 30 feet of water before the water pressure can push moisture past the O-rings. This should be plenty of humidity avoidance for common use rifles for hunting and sporting purposes, unless you intend on taking your rifle sailing and are concerned about the scope still working if it goes over the side and you can still find the gun.
What to Know About Rifle Scope Tube Gas Purging
Another part of preventing the accumulation of wetness within the rifle optic tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Since this area is currently taken up by the gas, the scope is less altered by temp changes and pressure variations from the outdoor environment which might potentially enable water vapor to permeate in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to look for.
