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Rifle Scope Product Details
Vixen Performance Optics 1-6X24 30mm RIFLESCOPE/ZERO + RET/GREY, BL MATTE,
Vixen Performance Optics 1-6X24 30mm RIFLESCOPE/ZERO + RET/GREY, BL MATTE, VX82031
Rifle Scope Product Features
About the Vixen Performance Optics Brand
Vixen Performance Optics is a premium producer for firearm scopes, optics, mounts, and other add-ons used for firearms like rifles and long guns. They design and manufacture their mounts, scopes, and related products using materials which are resilient and long lasting. This includes the Vixen Performance Optics 1-6X24 30mm RIFLESCOPE/ZERO + RET/GREY, BL MATTE, by Vixen Performance Optics. For more shooting products, visit their site.
Info Optics
Rifle scopes permit you to precisely align a rifle at different 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 for consideration of separate natural elements like wind speed and elevation increases or decreases to make up for bullet drop.
The scope’s purpose is to help shooters understand exactly where the bullet will hit based upon the sight picture you are viewing through the scope as you align the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended point of impact. The majority of modern rifle optics have around 11 parts which are found inside and outside of the optic. These parts include the rifle scope’s body, lenses, adjustment dials or turrets, focus rings, and other parts. Learn about the eleven parts of glass.
The Varieties of Rifle Scopes
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of optics. Deciding upon the perfect type of rifle glass depends on what type of shooting you plan to do.
First Focal Plane Optic Facts
Focal plane scopes (FFP) feature the reticle in front of the zoom lens. These types of scopes are helpful for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance types of shooting
- Shooting circumstances where calculations are small
- Experienced shooters who have an idea for their target “hold over” as well as “lead” ratios for their firearms
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is enlarged and takes up more visual sight room than a SFP reticle
About Second Focal Plane Glass
Second focal plane optics (SFP) include the reticle behind the zoom lens. In the FFP example with the SFP scope, the 5x “zoom” 100 yard tick would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick.
- Far away kinds of shooting where shooters have extra time to make ballistic computations
- Shooting where most shots happen within shorter proximities and ranges
- Shooters who desire a clearer optic picture with less space taken up by the enlarged FFP reticle
Details on Rifle Scope Zoom
The quantity of scope zoom you need on your glass depends on the kind of shooting you would like to do. Pretty much every type of rifle glass gives some level of zoom. The amount of magnification a scope supplies is identified by the size, density, and curves of the lenses within the rifle scope. The zoom of the optic is the “power” of the scope. This implies what the shooter is checking out through the scope is amplified times the power element of what can typically be seen by human eyes.
About Single Power Lens Rifle Scopes
A single power rifle scope will have a zoom number designator like 4×32. This suggests the zoom power of the scope is 4x power and the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this type of scope can not change considering that it is set from the factory.
Variable Power Lens Rifle Optic Info
Variable power rifle scopes use variable power levels. The power modification is handled by using the power ring part of the scope near the back of the scope by the eye bell.
Optic Power and Ranges
Here are some advised scope powers and the ranges where they could be successfully used. High power scopes will not be as useful as lower magnification level scopes given that too much magnification can be a negative aspect depending on your shooting distance. The same idea goes for longer distances where the shooter needs enough power to see precisely where to properly aim the rifle at the target.
About Lens Finish
All top of the line rifle optic lenses are covered. Lens finishing can be an essential element of a rifle’s setup when looking into high end rifle optics and scope systems.
HD Versus ED Lens Coatings
Some rifle glass producers additionally use “HD” or high-definition lens finishings which apply different processes, polarizations, rare earth compounds, and aspects to enhance a wide range of colors and viewable target visibility through the lens. This high-definition coating is often used with higher density lens glass which drops light’s chance to refract through the lens glass. Some scope producers use “HD” to describe “ED” signifying extra-low dispersion glass. ED deals with how colors are presented on the chromatic spectrum and the chromatic aberration or difference which is similarly called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration is often noticeable around objects with well defined shapes as light hits the item from particular angles.
Single Coating Versus Multi-Coating for Optics
Different scope lenses can even have various finishes applied to them. All lenses usually have at least some kind of treatment or finishing applied to them prior to being used in a rifle scope or optic assembly. This is because the lens isn’t just a raw piece of glass. It is part of the finely tuned optic. It requires a coating to be applied to it so that the lens will be optimally usable in numerous types of environments, degrees of light (full VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
Single coated lenses have a treatment applied to them which is usually a protective and boosting multi-purpose treatment. This lens treatment can safeguard 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 layered lens depends on the scope company and how much you spent paying for it. The scope’s maker and cost are signs of the lens quality.
Some scope makers also make it a point to define if their optic lenses are coated or “multi” covered. This implies the lens has had numerous treatments applied to the surfaces. If a lens gets several treatments, it can establish that a maker is taking multiple steps to fight different environmental elements like an anti-glare coating, a scratch resistant anti-abrasion coating, followed by a hydrophilic finishing. This also does not always suggest the multi-coated lens is much better than a single covered lens. Being “better” depends on the maker’s lens treatment techniques and the quality of products used in developing the rifle glass.
Rifle Scope Lens Anti-water Finishing
Water on a lens doesn’t assist with keeping a clear sight picture through a scope at all. Many top of the line and high-end optic makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic finishing.
Scope Installing Options
Mounting options for scopes can be found 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 various kinds of mounts also normally can be found in quick release versions which use throw levers which allow rifle operators to quickly install and remove the optics.
Hex Key Scope Rings
Basic, clamp-on style mounting optic rings use hex head screws to mount to the flattop design Picatinny scope mount rails on rifles. These varieties of scope mounts use two separate rings to support the scope, and are normally constructed from 7075 T6 billet aluminum or similar materials which are designed for far away accuracy shooting. This kind of scope mount is exceptional for rifles which require a resilient, hard use mount which will not change regardless of just how much the scope is moved about or jarring the rifle takes. These are the design of mounts you should get for a faithful optics setup on a reach out and touch someone scouting or competitors long gun which will seldom need to be altered or recalibrated. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can additionally be used on screws to prevent the hex screw threads from backing out after they are installed securely in position. An example of these rings are the 30mm style from Vortex Optics. The set typically costs around $200 USD
Quick-Release Cantilever Scope Rings
These kinds of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to rapidly attach and take off a scope from a rifle. Multiple scopes can also be switched out if they all use a complementary style mount. The quick detach mount style is CNC machined from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers fasten securely to a flat top design Picatinny rail. This allows the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, taken off of the rifle, and remounted while preserving precision. These kinds of mounts come in practical for shooting platforms which are transported a lot, to take off the scope glass from the rifle for protection, or for optics which are adopted in between multiple rifles. An example of this mount type is the 30mm mount designed by the Vortex Optics brand. It normally costs around $250 USD
Sealing and Gas Purging for Optic Tubes
Moisture inside your rifle optic can destroy a day of shooting and your costly optic by triggering fogging and creating residue inside of the scope tube. Many scopes avoid moisture from entering the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Gas Purged Rifle Scope Tubes
Another component of preventing the accumulation of wetness inside of the rifle scope’s tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Because this area is already taken up by the gas, the glass is less affected by temp changes and pressure differences from the outside environment which may possibly allow water vapor to permeate in around the seals to fill the vacuum which would otherwise exist. These are good qualities of a decent rifle scope to seek out.
