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Rifle Scope Cover Product Details
Sportsman’s Outdoor Products Horn Hunter Snapshot Rifle Scope Cover (Extended, King Desert Shadow)
It does not get any easier than the Snap Shot. Cover remains on the scope and out of the way. Protect your scope, get the shot, go home happy.
Rifle Scope Cover Product Features
Slip covers up and out of the way
Provides padded scope protection
End caps reinforced to protect lenses
Cover remains on scope at all times
Easy installation
About the Sportsman’s Outdoor Products Manufacturer
Sportsman’s Outdoor Products is a premium producer for long gun scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other accessories used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They create and manufacture their mounts and related products by applying materials which are long lasting and resilient. This includes the Sportsman’s Outdoor Products Horn Hunter Snapshot Rifle Scope Cover (Extended, King Desert Shadow) by Sportsman’s Outdoor Products. For more shooting products, visit their website.
About Rifle Optics
Rifle scopes allow you to exactly aim a rifle at different targets by aligning your eye with the target at range. They accomplish this through magnifying the target by using a set of lenses within the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adjusted to account for various natural elements like wind and elevation increases or decreases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to help shooters understand precisely where the bullet will land based upon the sight picture you are viewing via the optic as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended point of impact. A lot of modern rifle scopes have around eleven parts which are located within and on the exterior of the scope. These parts consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, modification dials, objective focus rings, and other parts. See all eleven parts of a rifle scope.
Rifle Scope Styles
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Finding the finest type of rifle scope is based around what type of shooting you plan on doing.
First Focal Plane Optic Info
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the magnification lens. These kinds of scopes are beneficial for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance kinds of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where estimations are small
- Experienced shooters who recognize their aim point “hold over” and also “lead” relationships for their long gun
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is enlarged and takes up more visual eyesight space than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Optics
Second focal plane optics (SFP) include the reticle behind 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 reticle measurement.
- Long distance kinds of shooting where shooters have increased time to make ballistic estimations
- Shooting where most of the shots happen within shorter ranges and spaces
- Shooters who want a clearer optic picture with less space used up by the enlarged FFP reticle
About Rifle Glass Magnification
The quantity of scope zoom you need on your glass depends upon the style of shooting you plan to do. Virtually every style of rifle optic delivers some degree of magnification. The level of magnification a scope provides is established by the diameter, density, and curvatures of the lens glass within the rifle scope. The magnifying level of the optic is the “power” of the scope. This denotes what the shooter is aiming at through the scope is amplified times the power factor of what can normally be seen by human eyes.
Single Power Lens Rifle Glass
A single power rifle scope comes with a magnification 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 scope can not change given that it is fixed.
Info About Adjustable Power Lens Scopes
Variable power rifle scopes can be modified between magnified settings. The power adjustment is performed by making use of the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
Power and Range
Here are some suggested scope power settings and the distances where they may be successfully used. Highly magnified rifle scope glass will not be as beneficial as lower magnification level optics given that too much magnification can be a bad thing. The same concept goes for extended distances where the shooter needs to have increased power to see exactly where to best aim the rifle.
About Lens Finishing
All top teir rifle scope and optic lenses are covered. Lens finish can be an essential element of a rifle when considering high end rifle optics and scope setups.
HD Versus ED Lenses
Some scope producers likewise use “HD” or high-definition lens coverings which use various techniques, chemicals, polarizations, and elements to draw out various colors and viewable quality through the lens. Some scope makers use “HD” to refer to “ED” indicating extra-low dispersion glass.
Single Rifle Glass Lens Coating Versus Multi-Coating
Different optic lenses can likewise have various coverings applied to them. All lenses generally have at least some type of treatment or covering applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic.
This lens treatment can safeguard the lens from scratches while minimizing 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 on the scope maker and how much you paid for it.
Some scope makers also make it a point to define if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” covered. Being “much better” depends on the manufacturer’s lens treatment technology and the quality of materials used in building the rifle scope.
Hydrophobic Lens Coating
Water on an optical lens doesn’t support retaining a clear sight picture through a scope in any way. Lots of top of the line and premium optic manufacturers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic finishing. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a good example of this kind of treatment. It deals with the exterior of the Steiner scope lens so the H2O molecules can not bind to it or develop surface tension. The outcome is that the water beads move off of the scope to maintain a clear, water free sight picture.
Options for Mounting Rifle Optics on Long Guns
Installing solutions for scopes come in a couple of choices. There are the standard scope rings which are separately installed to the scope and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These different types of mounts also usually can be found in quick release versions which use manual levers which allow rifle operators to rapidly mount and remove the scope.
Optic Mounting Solutions with Hex Key Rings
Normal, clamp style 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 different rings to support the optic, and are made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which is designed for long range accuracy shooting. This type of scope install is perfect for rifles which need a long lasting, sound mounting solution which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abuse the rifle takes.
Quick-Release Cantilever Glass Rings
These kinds of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to rapidly detach a scope from a rifle and reattach it to a different rifle. Several scopes can also be switched out if they all use a similar style mount. The quick detach mount style is CNC crafted from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers attach securely to a flat top style Picatinny rail. This lets the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, taken off of the rifle, and remounted back on the rifle while keeping precision. These kinds of mounts are useful and handy for rifles which are moved around a lot, to remove the glass from the rifle for protection, or for sight systems which are adopted in between multiple rifles. An example of this mount style is the 30mm mount from the Vortex Optics brand. It typically costs around $250 USD
Rifle Glass Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Moisture inside your rifle optic can spoil a day on the range and your pricey optic by triggering fogging and developing residue inside of the scope’s tube. A lot of scopes prevent humidity from getting in the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant. Normally, these water-resistant optics can be immersed under 20 or 30 feet of water before the water pressure can push moisture past the O-rings. This should be more than enough humidity avoidance for basic use rifles, unless you intend on taking your rifle on your motorboat and are worried about the scope still functioning if it goes overboard and you can still rescue the rifle.
Info on Rifle Scope Tube Gas Purging
Another component of preventing the accumulation of wetness inside of the rifle scope’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 affected by climate changes and pressure variations from the external environment which may possibly permit water vapor to seep in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to look for.
