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Rifle Scope Cover Product Details
Sportsman’s Outdoor Products Horn Hunter Snapshot Rifle Scope Cover (Large, 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 maker for rifle scopes, optics, mounts, and other add-ons used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They innovate and supply their products using elements which are durable and long lasting. This includes the Sportsman’s Outdoor Products Horn Hunter Snapshot Rifle Scope Cover (Large, King Desert Shadow) by Sportsman’s Outdoor Products. For additional shooting products, visit their site.
Rifle Glass Information
Rifle scopes enable you to specifically align a rifle at various targets by lining up your eye with the target at range. They do this through zoom using a set of lenses within the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adjusted to take into account various ecological factors like wind speed and elevation decreases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to help shooters understand precisely where the bullet will land based on the sight picture you are seeing via the optic as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended point of impact. Most modern rifle optics have about eleven parts which are found within and outside of the scope body. These optic pieces include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, adjustment dials, focus rings, and other elements. Learn about the eleven parts of optics.
Rifle Optic Styles
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” style of scopes. The sort of focal plane a scope has identifies where the reticle or crosshair is located in regard to the optic’s zoom. It actually implies the reticle is behind or in front of the magnifying lens of the optic. Choosing the most ideal form of rifle optic is dependent on what style of shooting you plan on doing.
First Focal Plane Scopes
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the magnification lens. These styles of scopes are useful for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance types of shooting
- Shooting circumstances where computations are minimal
- Experienced shooters who understand their aim point “hold over” and “lead” equations for their rifles
- Shooters who don’t mind the reticle is enlarged and occupies more visual sight room than a SFP reticle
Info About Second Focal Plane Glass
Second focal plane optics (SFP) come with the reticle behind the magnification 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.
- Long distance kinds of shooting where shooters have additional time to make ballistic estimations
- Shooting where most of the shots happen within much shorter spaces and ranges
- Shooters who like a clearer optic picture with less area taken up by the enlarged FFP reticle
Optic Magnification
The amount of scope magnification you require depends on the form of shooting you would like to do. Pretty much every kind of rifle optic provides some degree of magnification. The level of zoom a scope delivers is determined 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 scope. This suggests what the shooter is checking out through the scope is magnified times the power factor of what can generally be seen by human eyes.
Single Power Lens Scopes
A single power rifle scope and optic comes with a magnification number designator like 4×32. This indicates the zoom power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this type of scope can not fluctuate since it is a fixed power optic.
Adjustable Power Lens Optics
Variable power rifle scopes can be tweaked between magnified settings. The power modification is performed using the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
Rifle Optic Power and Range Correlation
Here are some advised scope power settings and the ranges where they could be efficiently used. Consider that higher power scopes will not be as practical as lower magnification level scopes since increased zoom can be a bad thing. The same concept goes for longer ranges where the shooter needs sufficient power to see precisely where to best aim the rifle at the target.
Lens Finish for Glass
All modern rifle optic and scope lenses are covered in special coatings. There are various types and qualities of lens coverings. When researching high end rifle targeting units, Lens covering can be an essential aspect of defining the rifle’s capability. The glass lenses are among the most vital components of the scope because they are what your eye looks through while sighting a rifle in on the target. The coating on the lenses protects the lens surface and even helps with anti glare from excess sunshine and color visibility.
HD Versus ED Rifle Scope Lens Coatings
Some scope brands likewise use “HD” or high-definition lens coverings which use different techniques, chemicals, elements, and polarizations to draw out various colors and viewable quality through the lens. Some scope makers use “HD” to refer to “ED” implying extra-low dispersion glass.
Single Coating Versus Multi-Coating
Different optic lenses can also have different coverings applied to them. All lenses usually have at least some type of treatment or coating applied to them before they are used in a rifle scope or optic.
This lens treatment can offer protection to the lens from scratches while lowering glare and other less beneficial things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the scope. The quality of a single covered lens depends on the scope producer and how much you paid for it.
Some scope makers also make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” covered. Being “better” depends on the manufacturer’s lens treatment innovation and the quality of products used in developing the rifle scope.
Hydrophobic Lens Covering
Water on a lens does not assist with preserving a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Lots of top of the line and military grade scope makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic finish which is water repellent.
Optic Installing Choices
Installing approaches for scopes come in a couple of choices. There are the basic scope rings which are separately mounted to the optic and one-piece mounts which cradle the scope. These different types of mounts also generally come in quick release variations which use throw levers which enable rifle operators to quickly mount and dismount the scopes.
Rifle Optic Mounting Solutions with Hex Key Rings
Basic, clamp design mounting optic rings use hex head screws to fix to the flattop design Picatinny scope mount rails on rifles. These forms of scope mounts use two individual rings to support the scope, and are made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are created for long distance precision shooting. This kind of scope mount is excellent for rifle systems which need a durable, hard use mount which will not change regardless of just how much the scope is moved or jarring the rifle takes. These are the design of mounts you should get for a specialized optics setup on a far away hunting or hard target interdiction long gun which will hardly ever need to be modified or recalibrated. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can additionally be used on the scope mount screws to stop the hex screws from wiggling out after they are installed securely in position. An example of these mounting rings are the 30mm type made by Vortex Optics. The set typically costs around $200 USD
Optic Mounts with Quick-Release Cantilever Rings
These types of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly connect and take off a scope from a rifle before reattaching it to a different rifle. Several scopes can even be swapped out if they all use a similar style mount. These types of mounts are convenient for rifle platforms which are transported a lot, to remove the optic from the rifle for protection, or for scopes which are used between multiple rifles.
Rifle Glass Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle optic can mess up a day of shooting and your costly optic by triggering fogging and creating 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 waterproof.
Gas Purged Rifle Glass Tubes
Another part of preventing the buildup of wetness within the rifle scope’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Because this space is already taken up by the gas, the scope is less influenced by climate shifts and pressure variations from the outside environment which might potentially enable water vapor to leak in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to seek out.
