Description
Rifle Scope Product Details
Vector Optics 4-16×50 Second Focal Plane (SFP) Riflescope with Red & Green Illuminated Reticle, 30mm Tube, 1/4 MOA Per Click Adjustment, Turret Lock System, Free Mount Rings, Honeycomb Sunshade
Specifitions:
Magnification: 4-16x
Objective Lens Dia.:50mm
Tube Dia.:30mm
Adjustment Click Value: 1/4 MOA
Reticle: MPR-3
Illumination: Red & Green
Ocular Dia: 44mm(1.7 inch)
Ocular Length: 67mm(2.6 inch)
Field of View: 24.4-7.0 Feet @ 100 yards
Eye Relief: 80-100mm (3.1-3.9 inch)
Exit Pupil: 3.1-12.5mm
Elevation Range: 55 MOA
Windage Range: 55 MOA
Lens Coating: Fully multicoated
Length: 340mm (13.4 inch)
Weight: 750g (26.5 ounce)
Finish: Matte
Battery: CR2032(EXCLUDED)
Distance between objective lens part and middle turret: 47mm (1.9 inch)
Length of middle turret part: 61mm (2.4 inch)
Distance between middle turret part to power ring: 42mm (1.6 inch)
Diopter compensation from fast-focus eyepiece (+2 to -2.5)
Fetures:
5 Years Warranty
30mm Monotube. 1/4 MOA windage and elevation adjustments for fine-tuning accuracy.
The reticle is red and green illuminated along the second focal plane.
The illunimation has stepless brightness.
Turret lock feature: Pull to adjust, press to lock.
Side Focus starts at 12 Yard.
Fast-focus Eyepiece for quick and easy reticle focusing
O-ring Sealed and Nitrogen Purged Ensure Water Resistance and Fog Proof performance; Shockproof to 750g.
High quality 6061 T6 aircraft grade aluminum alloy with durable black matte finish.
Package Includes:
– 1 x 4-16×50 Riflescope
– 2 x 30mm weaver mount ring (default) or dovetail mount ring (on request only)
– 1 x Lens Cover
– 1 x Cleaning cloth
Rifle Scope Product Features
5 years warranty. 30mm Monotube. 1/4 MOA windage and elevation adjustments for fine-tuning accuracy.
The reticle is red and green illuminated along the second focal plane. The illunimation has stepless brightness.
Turret lock sytem. Pull to adjust, press to lock. Side Focus starts at 12 Yard.
O-ring Sealed and Nitrogen Purged Ensure Water Resistance and Fog Proof performance; Shockproof to 750g.
Two 30mm scope mount rings can be easily mounted onto any 20mm Picatinny or Weaver mount rails.
About the Vector Optics Scope Maker
Vector Optics is a premium manufacturer for long gun scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other add-ons used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They style and make their mounts and related products by using building materials which are long lasting and resilient. This includes the Vector Optics 4-16×50 Second Focal Plane (SFP) Riflescope with Red & Green Illuminated Reticle, 30mm Tube, 1/4 MOA Per Click Adjustment, Turret Lock System, Free Mount Rings, Honeycomb Sunshade by Vector Optics. For additional shooting goods, visit their site.
Information About Glass
Rifle scopes enable you to precisely aim a rifle at various targets by lining up your eye with the target over a range. They accomplish this through magnification by making use of a set of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s alignment can be adjusted for consideration of different environmental elements like wind speed and elevation increases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to help shooters understand exactly where the bullet will hit based upon the sight picture you are viewing through the optic as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. Many modern-day rifle scopes and optics have about eleven parts which are found inside and outside of the scope. These scope parts consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage and elevation dials, focus rings, and other parts. Learn about the eleven parts of rifle optics.
Rifle Optic Styles
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Considering the optimal type of rifle optic is based on what type of shooting you plan to do.
First Focal Plane Glass
Focal plane scopes (FFP) include the reticle in front of the zoom lens. These kinds of scopes are useful for:
- Quick acquisition, far away kinds of shooting
- Shooting situations where estimations are small
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their aim point “hold over” plus “lead” equations for their long guns
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is enlarged and occupies more visual eyesight area than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Optic Facts
Second focal plane glass (SFP) come with the reticle behind the magnification lens. This induces the reticle to stay at the exact same dimensions in connection with the quantity of zoom being used. The effect is that the reticle dimensions adjust based upon the magnification employed to shoot over longer ranges considering that the markings present various increments which can vary with the zoom. In the FFP illustration with the SFP optic, the 5x “zoom” one hundred yard tick would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick. These types of glass work for:
- Far away types of shooting where shooters have additional time to make ballistic estimations
- Shooting where most of the shots take place within much shorter ranges and spaces
- Shooters who choose a clearer optic picture with less area taken up by the enlarged FFP reticle
Rifle Glass Magnification
The quantity of zoom a scope offers is identified by the size, density, and curvatures of the lenses inside of the rifle scope. The zoom of the scope is the “power” of the scope.
Fixed Single Power Lens Optic Info
A single power rifle optic and scope uses a magnification number designator like 4×32. This indicates the zoom power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The magnification of this kind of optic can not fluctuate considering that it is a fixed power optic.
Variable Power Lens Rifle Scope Facts
Variable power rifle scopes use enhanced power. The power adjustment is accomplished using the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
Rifle Glass Power and Range Correlation
Here are some advised scope power levels and the ranges where they can be efficiently used. Highly magnified rifle scope glass will not be as beneficial as lower magnification scopes considering too much magnification can be a negative aspect depending on your shooting distance. The exact same idea relates to extended distances where the shooter needs to have sufficient power to see exactly where to best aim the rifle at the target.
Glass Lens Covering
All contemporary rifle scope and optic lenses are covered in special coatings. There are different types and qualities of coverings. Lens covering is a crucial aspect of a rifle’s setup when looking at luxury rifle optics and scope equipment. The lenses are one of the most crucial pieces of the glass given that they are what your eye looks through while sighting a rifle in on the target. The covering on the lenses protects the lens exterior as well as helps with anti glare capabilities from refracted light and color perception.
About Lens Coatings – HD Versus ED
Some optic suppliers also use “HD” or high-definition lense finishes that use various procedures, polarizations, chemicals, and aspects to extract a wide range of colors and viewable target visibility through the lens. This HD coating is often used with more costly, high density lens glass which lowers light’s opportunity to refract by means of the lens glass. Some scope makers use “HD” to describe “ED” meaning extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how certain colors are presented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic deviance or aberration which is also called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration can be obvious over things with defined shapes as light hits the object from specific angles.
About Single Covering Versus Multi-Coating
Various optic lenses can also have various finishings applied to them. All lenses typically have at least some kind of treatment or finishing applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic assembly. 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 requires a coating to be applied to it so that the lens will be optimally usable in lots of kinds of environments, degrees of sunlight (full VS shade), and other shooting conditions.
Single layered 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 minimizing glare and other less advantageous things experienced in the shooting environment while sighting in with the optic. The quality of a single coated lens depends upon the scope developer and just how much you spent for it. Both the manufacturer and amount are indications of the lens quality.
Some scope manufacturers also make it a point to specify if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” coated. Being “better” depends on the maker’s lens treatment innovation and the quality of materials used in developing the rifle scope.
Rifle Scope Lens Anti-water Covering
Water on an optic’s lens does not support maintaining a clear sight picture through a scope whatsoever. Numerous top of the line or premium scope makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic coating. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a fine example of this kind of treatment. It treats the exterior surfaces 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 slide off of the scope to maintain a clear, water free sight picture.
Alternatives for Installing Rifle Optics on Long Guns
Installing options for scopes are available in a few choices. There are the basic scope rings which are individually mounted to the scope and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These various kinds of mounts also normally are made in quick release versions which use throw levers which allow rifle operators to quickly mount and dismount the scope.
Hex Key Glass Rings
Standard, clamp style mounting scope rings use hex head screws to mount to the flattop design Picatinny scope installation rails on rifles. These types of scope mounts use a couple of different rings to support the optic, and are made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which are created for long range precision shooting. This type of scope mount is excellent for rifles which require a durable, sound mount which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abused.
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Glass Rings
These kinds of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly connect and detach a scope from a rifle. If they all use a comparable style mount, multiple scopes can also be swapped on the range. The quick detach design is CNC crafted from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers connect firmly to a flat top style Picatinny rail. This enables the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, taken off of the rifle, and remounted back on the rifle while preserving precision. These kinds of mounts come in practical for shooting platforms which are carried a lot, to take off the glass from the rifle for protection, or for aiming systems which are utilized between numerous rifles. An example of this mount type is the 30mm mount from Vortex Optics. It generally costs around $250 USD
Info Around Scope Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle optic can destroy a day of shooting and your pricey optic by causing fogging and creating residue inside of the scope tube. Many scopes avoid wetness from entering the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are waterproof.
Glass Gas Purging
Another component of preventing the accumulation of moisture inside of the rifle optic tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Because this space is currently taken up by the gas, the glass is less affected by temp shifts and pressure differences from the external environment which may potentially allow water vapor to leak in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to look for.
