We’ve all used scopes throughout our shooting and likely haven’t given much thought to its design. As I’ve gotten more heavily into shooting sports, the inner workings of the equipment I use have become much more interesting and important to my evolution as a shooter.
Jerimiah Alexander is the Director of Product Design at Riton Optics, with a background as an ELR (Extreme Long Range) enthusiast and competitive shooter. Being a shooter first, he’s put his experience to work designing a wide range of optics for Riton Optics over the past 8 years. This interview is a deep dive into the inner workings of scope design and design considerations of specific features that make a quality scope. We cover materials like lenses, turrets, and scope bodies as well as the relationship between the field of view and eye relief or the objective lens and light-gathering abilities. What makes a $2000 scope better than a $800 scope? By the time you finish this video, you will know.
The YouTube video below is separated into chapters so feel free to dive into the specific areas of interest.
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