A vintage rifle scope’s main objective is to increase the possibility of a hunter in nailing the desired target. That’s why in the production of a rifle scope, the engineers make sure that it has the ability to transmit to the shooter’s eye the maximum amount of light possible. From a distance, the light that caroms off the intended object is collected by the objective lens at the scope’s front. This image is then magnified. Just like in the old cameras, the intensified image is received by the scope upside down. This image is then corrected and turned right side up and magnified by the erector lens system positioned in the scope’s main tube’s middle portion. At the back portion of the scope, the image will be magnified even more by another lens. This particular lens is also the one responsible for bringing the center aiming point (reticle/crosshairs) and desired target to the hunter’s eye.
Parts of a Rifle Scope
There are actually two tubes in a rifle scope and one is inside of the other. The tube on the interior bends light for the purpose of magnification while the exterior tube acts as the inner tube’s protector. It also serves as the mount for some of the other rifle scope’s parts. A rifle scope has about ten parts. They are:
* Ocular lens: The part where the shooter looks through.
* Eye piece: This is affixed to the eye bell. The ocular lens is also held by this.
* Eye Bell: This part is fastened to the tube and provides a grip to the eye piece.
* Elevation adjustment: Along the vertical plane, this switches the point of aim up and down.
* Windage Adjustment: Unlike the elevation adjustment, this part allows the shooter to shift the point of aim right to left along the horizontal plane.
* Power Ring: By turning this, the scope’s magnification can be adjusted by the hunter.
* Tube: This is the scope’s principal body where the objective bell, eye piece and eye bell are located.
* Objective Lens: As light enters vintage rifle scopes, this part gathers it. The size of the field of view is directly proportional to the objective lens’ diameter.
* Objective Bell: This part of the scope is the most distant from the shooter. The objective lens is held by this.
* Adjustable Objective Lens (AO): This part adjusts the objective lens to correct parallax error. This type error occurs when the eye of the scope is not centered at the proper range in medium to high powered scopes.
* Eye Relief: This part is the gap between your eye and the ocular lens when you look through the scope. A rifle scope with a bigger eye relief is considered to be better.
