Description
Rifle Scope Product Details
Vector Optics Reaper 6-24x50mm, Red & Green Illuminated Reticle, 30mm Tube, 1/4 MOA Second Focal Plane (SFP) Riflescope
Specifications:
Magnification: 6-24x
Objective Lens Dia.:50mm
Tube Dia.:30mm
Adjustment Click Value: 1/4 MOA
Reticle:Etched glass MPL
Illumination: Red & Green
Illumination:5 levels
Ocular Dia: 38mm(1.5 inch)
Ocular Length: 68mm(2.7 inch)
Field of View: 16.0-4.0 Feet @ 100 yards
Eye Relief: 97-94mm (3.8-3.7 inch)
Exit Pupil: 8.3-2.1mm
Parallax Setting:100 yards
Side Focus:10, 15, 20, 25, 50, 100, 200, 500 and infinite
Elevation Range: 50 MOA
Windage Range: 50 MOA
Lens Coating: Fully multicoated
Length: 355mm (14 inch)
Weight: 700g (24.7 ounce)
Finish: Matte
Battery: CR2032(EXCLUDED)
Distance between objective lens part and middle turret: 67mm (2.6 inch)
Length of middle turret part: 38mm (1.5 inch)
Distance between middle turret part to power ring: 55mm (2.1 inch)
Diopter compensation from fast-focus eyepiece (+2 to -2.0)
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 5 levels of brightness.
Side Focus starts at 10 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 x6-24×50 Riflescope
– 2 x 30mm weaver mount ring (default) or dovetail mount ring (on request only)
– 1 x Lens Cover
– 1 x Honeycomb Sunshade
– 1 x Cleaning cloth
Note: We offer 5 YEARS WARRANTY. Please feel free to contact us if you have any interests or product issues, we are available 24/7 online.
Rifle Scope Product Features
5 years warranty. Long Eye Relief.
Optics hold zero. 30mm Mototube. 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 5 levels of brightness.
O-ring Sealed and Nitrogen Purged Ensure Water Resistance and Fog Proof performance; Shockproof to 750g.
Free 30mm mount rings, and lens covers, honeycomb sunshade.
About the Vector Optics Brand
Vector Optics is a premium maker for firearm scopes, optics, mounts, and other add-ons used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They innovate and build their scopes, mounts, and related products by making the most of materials which are resilient and long lasting. This includes the Vector Optics Reaper 6-24x50mm, Red & Green Illuminated Reticle, 30mm Tube, 1/4 MOA Second Focal Plane (SFP) Riflescope by Vector Optics. For additional shooting items, visit their website.
Info About Rifle Glass
Rifle scopes enable you to specifically aim a rifle at different targets by aligning your eye with the target at range. They accomplish this through magnification using a set of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adjusted for consideration of many ecological factors like wind and elevation increases or decreases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose 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. A lot of modern-day rifle optics have around eleven parts which are arranged within and on the exterior of the scope. These scope parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, windage and elevation turrets, objective focus rings, and other elements. Learn about the eleven parts of scopes.
About Rifle Scope Types
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. Considering the finest type of rifle glass depends on what type of shooting you plan to do.
Info About First Focal Plane Glass
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the zoom lens. This induces the reticle to increase in size based upon the level of magnification being used. The result is that the reticle measurements are the same at the enhanced distance as they are at the non magnified distance. One tick on a mil-dot reticle at one hundred yards with no “zoom” is still the identical tick at one hundred yards with 5x “zoom”. These types of scopes work for:
- Quick acquisition, far away kinds of shooting
- Shooting situations where computations are low
- Experienced shooters who know their aim point “hold over” plus “lead” relationships for their firearm
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is bigger and uses up more visual sight area than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Scope Info
Second focal plane optics (SFP) include the reticle to the rear of the magnification 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 measurement.
- Far away types of shooting where shooters have additional time to make ballistic calculations
- Shooting where most of the shots happen within much shorter distances and ranges
- Shooters who prefer a clearer optic picture without space taken up by the bigger FFP reticle
Magnification for Rifle Optics
The level of scope zoom you require is based on the style of shooting you choose to do. Pretty much every type of rifle scope gives some level of zoom. The quantity of zoom a scope provides is established by the size, thickness, and curves of the lenses within the rifle optic. The zoom of the scope is the “power” of the opic. This implies 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 Scopes
A single power rifle optic uses a magnification number designator like 4×32. This suggests the magnification power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this kind of scope can not change given that it is fixed.
Adjustable Power Lens Scope Details
Variable power rifle scopes use enhanced power. The power modification is performed using the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell.
Glass Power and Ranges
Here are some advised scope power levels and the distances where they may be efficiently used. Keep in mind that high power scopes and optics will not be as effective as lower powered optics because excessive zoom can be a negative thing in certain situations. The same idea relates to longer ranges where the shooter needs to have sufficient power to see precisely where to properly aim the rifle.
Rifle Glass Lens Covering
All modern rifle scope and optic lenses are covered in special coatings. There are different types and qualities of lens coatings. When researching luxury rifle optical units, Lens finish can be a critical element of defining the rifle’s capability. The lenses are one of the most important parts of the glass due to the fact that they are what your eye looks through while sighting a rifle in on the point of impact. The finish on the lenses protects the lens exterior and helps with anti glare capabilities from excess light and color exposure.
HD Versus ED Rifle Glass Lens Coatings
Some rifle scope suppliers even use “HD” or high-def glass coverings that make the most of different processes, components, chemical substances, and polarizations to enhance various color ranges and viewable target definition through the lens. This high-definition finish is typically used with higher density glass which decreases light’s ability 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 colors are represented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic difference or aberration which is also called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration can be obvious over items with defined shapes as light hits the item from particular angles.
Single Covering Versus Multi-Coating
Different scope lenses can even have different finishings applied to them. All lenses normally have at least some type of treatment or coating 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 becomes part of the carefully tuned optic. It must have a coating placed on it so that the lens will be efficiently functional in lots of kinds of environments, degrees of light (full light VS shade), and other shooting conditions.
This lens treatment can safeguard 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 coated lens depends on the scope producer and how much you paid for it.
Some scope makers likewise make it a point to define if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” coated. This suggests the lens has had numerous treatments applied to the surfaces of the glass. If a lens receives multiple treatments, it can establish that a maker is taking several actions to combat various environmental elements like an anti-glare finish, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion covering, followed by a hydrophilic finishing. This additionally does not necessarily suggest the multi-coated lens is better than a single coated lens. Being “better” depends upon the producer’s lens treatment technology and the quality of materials used in creating the rifle glass.
Details on Hydrophobic Finishing
Water on a scope lens does not support retaining a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Lots of top of the line and high-end optic manufacturers will coat their lenses with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic finishing. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a fine example of this kind of treatment. It treats the surface area of the Steiner glass 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 preserve a clear, water free sight picture.
Scope Installation Alternatives
Mounting options for scopes can be found in a few options. There are the standard scope rings which are individually installed to the optic and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These various types of mounts also normally come in quick release variations which use toss levers which allow rifle shooters to quickly mount and remove the scopes.
Glass Mounting Solutions with Hex Key Rings
Standard, clamp design 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 a couple of different rings to support the optic, and are often made from 7075 T6 billet aluminum which is created for long distance accuracy shooting. This type of scope mount is excellent for rifles which need a durable, rock solid mount which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved or abused.
Quick-Release Cantilever Rifle Optic Ring Mounting Solutions
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. Multiple scopes can also be swapped out if they all use a similar designed mount. The quick detach mount style is CNC machined from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers attach tightly to a flat top design Picatinny rail. This permits the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, taken off of the rifle, and remounted while keeping precision. These types of mounts come in convenient for rifles which are transferred a lot, to remove the scope glass from the rifle for protection, or for scopes which are employed between numerous rifles. An example of this mount style is the 30mm mount designed by Vortex Optics. It normally costs around $250 USD
Scope Tube Sealing and Gas Purging
Wetness inside your rifle optic can mess up a day of shooting and your costly optic by causing fogging and producing residue inside of the scope tube. Many scopes avoid wetness from getting in the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Info Around Optic Tube Gas Purging
Another component of avoiding the buildup of wetness inside of the rifle scope’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Since this area is already occupied by the gas, the optic is less altered by temp alterations and pressure variations from the external environment which could possibly enable water vapor to permeate in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to seek out.
