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Rifle Scope Product Details
Zeiss Tripod Mount 1/4 528388-0000-000
Zeiss Binocular Tripod Mount 1/4 in is perfect for keeping your view steady for long periods of time, reducing your fatigue. The ZEISS Bino Tripod ensures the best possible stability and flexibility. It is compatible with all ZEISS spotting scopes and also with all binoculars with a minimum 30 mm lens diameter. The Zeiss Optic Tripod’s head has a particularly gentle pivoting action and also offers precise and secure clamping.
Rifle Scope Product Features
Package length: 2.7 cm
Package width: 4.3 cm
Package height: 15.6 cm
Product Type: SPORTING GOODS
About the Zeiss Company
Zeiss is a premium maker for long gun scopes, optics, mounting solutions, and other accessories used for guns like rifles and long guns. They style and make their scopes, mounts, and related products by applying materials which are resilient and long lasting. This includes the Zeiss Tripod Mount 1/4 528388-0000-000 by Zeiss. For additional shooting products, visit their website.
Rifle Optic Facts
Rifle scopes enable you to precisely align a rifle at various targets by aligning your eye with the target at range. They accomplish this through magnifying the target by employing a set of lenses inside the scope. The scope’s positioning can be adapted for consideration of various ecological factors like wind and elevation to account for bullet drop.
The scope’s function is to help the shooter understand exactly where the bullet will hit based on the sight picture you are viewing using the optic as you line up the scope’s crosshair or reticle with the intended target. The majority of modern rifle optics have about eleven parts which are arranged internally and outside of the scope body. These parts consist of the rifle scope’s body, lenses, adjustment dials or turrets, objective focus rings, and other components. Learn about the eleven parts of rifle glass.
About Rifle Scope Types
Rifle scopes can be either “first focal plane” or “second focal plane” type of scopes. Choosing the best type of rifle scope depends on what type of shooting you plan on doing.
First Focal Plane Glass Facts
Focal plane scopes (FFP) include the reticle in front of the zoom lens. These styles of scopes are useful for:
- Quick acquisition, long distance kinds of shooting
- Shooting scenarios where estimations are minimal
- Experienced shooters who understand their aim point “hold over” as well as “lead” equations for their firearms
- Shooters who do not mind the reticle is enlarged and requires more visual eyesight area than a SFP reticle
Second Focal Plane Optics
Second focal plane optics (SFP) include the reticle to the rear of the magnifying lens. This causes the reticle to remain at the very same overall size in connection with the quantity of zoom being used. The outcome is that the reticle measurements change based on the zoom chosen to shoot over longer distances because the markings represent various increments which fluctuate with the zoom level. In the FFP example with the SFP glass, the 5x “zoom” 100 yard tick would be 1/5th of the non “zoom” tick. These styles of glass are useful for:
- Long distance styles of shooting where shooters have increased time to make ballistic estimations
- Shooting where most of the shots occur within much shorter distances and ranges
- Shooters who want a clearer optic picture without space used up by the enlarged FFP reticle
Magnification for Rifle Optics
The extent of scope zoom you need on your scope is based on the kind of shooting you like to do. Just about every type of rifle glass offers some level of zoom. The volume of zoom a scope provides is established by the diameter, density, and curves of the lens glass inside of the rifle scope. The magnifying level of the scope is the “power” of the glass. This indicates what the shooter is aiming at through the scope is magnified times the power aspect of what can usually be seen by human eyes.
Fixed Power Lens Rifle Optic Facts
A single power rifle optic or scope uses a zoom number designator like 4×32. This suggests the zoom power of the scope is 4x power while the objective lens is 32mm. The zoom of this type of optic can not adjust since it is a fixed power optic.
Variable Power Lens Glass
Variable power rifle scopes have adjustable power. These types of scopes will note the zoom level in a format like 2-10×32. These numbers indicate the zoom of the scope could be changed in between 2x and 10x power. This additionally utilizes the powers in-between 2 and 10. The power manipulation is achieved by working with the power ring part of the scope near the rear of the scope by the eye bell piece.
Power and Range Correlations
Here are some advised scope powers and the ranges where they can be effectively used. Keep in mind that higher power optics and scopes will not be as efficient as lower powered optics since too much magnification can be a bad thing. The same applies to extended ranges where the shooter needs to have enough power to see where to best aim the rifle at the target.
Lens Coating for Rifle Optics
All present day rifle optic and scope lenses are layered. Lens finishing can be a significant aspect of a rifle when buying high end rifle optics and scope equipment.
HD Versus ED Lenses
Some scope makers even use “HD” or high-definition lens finishings that make the most of different procedures, polarizations, aspects, and chemicals to extract different color ranges and viewable target definition through the lens. This HD finish is normally used with more costly high density glass which drops light’s chance to refract by means of the lens glass. Some scope vendors use “HD” to refer to “ED” meaning extra-low dispersion glass. ED handles how colors are presented on the chroma spectrum and the chromatic difference or aberration which is similarly called color distortion or fringing. Chromatic aberration is often visible over items with hard shapes as light hits the object from various angles.
Single Glass Lens Coating Versus Multi-Coating
Different optic lenses can also have various finishings applied to them. All lenses normally have at least some kind of treatment or finish 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 covering applied to it so that it will be efficiently usable in many types of environments, degrees of sunlight (full VS shaded), and other shooting conditions.
This lens treatment can offer protection to 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 covered or “multi” coated. Being “better” depends on the producer’s lens treatment technology and the quality of materials used in developing the rifle scope.
Hydrophobic Lens Coverings
Water on a lens does not improve keeping a clear sight picture through a scope in any way. Numerous top of the line or high-end optic makers will coat their lenses with a hydrophilic or hydrophobic coating. The Steiner Optics Nano-Protection is a good example of this kind of treatment. It deals with the exterior of the Steiner optic 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 keep a clear, water free sight picture.
Rifle Scope Installation Options
Mounting solutions for scopes are available in a few choices. There are the basic scope rings which are separately installed to the scope and one-piece scope mounts which cradle the scope. These different kinds of mounts also normally are made in quick release variations which use throw levers which allow rifle shooters to quickly install and dismount the scope.
Scope Mounting Solutions with Hex Key Rings
Standard, clamp-on style mounting optic rings use hex head screws to mount to the flattop style Picatinny scope mounting rails on rifles. These varieties of scope mounts use two separate rings to support the scope, and are usually constructed from 7075 T6 billet aluminum or similar materials which are created for far away accuracy shooting. This type of scope mount is effective for rifle systems which are in need of a durable, rock solid mount which will not move no matter how much the scope is moved about or abuse the rifle takes. These are the style of mounts you really want to have for a faithful scope setup on a long distance scouting or sniper competition firearm which will almost never need to be changed or adjusted. Blue 242 Loctite threadlocker can additionally be used on the mount’s screws to prevent the hex screw threads from wiggling out after they are mounted tightly in place. An example of these mounting rings are the 30mm style made by the Vortex Optics company. The set normally costs around $200 USD
Quick-Release Cantilever Optic Rings
These kinds of quick-release rifle scope mounts can be used to quickly connect and remove a scope from a rifle. Multiple scopes can also be swapped out if they all use a complementary designed mount. The quick detach mount style is CNC crafted from anodized 6061 T6 aluminum and the mounting levers attach securely to a flat top type Picatinny rail. This allows the scope to be sighted in while on the rifle, removed from the rifle, and remounted while keeping accuracy. These kinds of mounts come in convenient for rifles which are hauled around a lot, to take off the scope glass from the rifle for protection, or for aiming systems which are chosen for use in between multiple rifles. An example of this mount style is the 30mm mount designed by Vortex Optics. It normally costs around $250 USD
Sealing and Gas Purging for Optic Tubes
Wetness inside your rifle scope can ruin a day of shooting and your costly optic by bringing about fogging and creating residue inside of the scope tube. A lot of scopes prevent wetness from entering the scope tube with a system of sealing O-rings which are water resistant.
Scope Gas Purging
Another element of preventing the accumulation of moisture within the rifle scope tube is filling the tube with a gas like nitrogen. Since this area is currently taken up by the gas, the optic is less altered by condition changes and pressure variations from the outside environment which could possibly permit water vapor to permeate in around the seals to fill the void which would otherwise be there. These are good qualities of a good rifle scope to seek out.
