Ep. 102 | Riflescopes – Everything you ever wanted to know (Part 1)

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Optics, Sports, Vortex Nation, Shooting, Vortex Nation Podcast, Wilderness, Binoculars, Rifle, Scope, Hunting, Vortex, Vortex Optics, Riflescope, Gun, Long Range

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🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

We didn’t expect to need two parts for this topic, but there’s just so dang much to talk about when it comes to riflescopes! Lightweight Dave joins Mark and Jimmy once again, this time not to talk about sawing his toothbrush in half, but to discuss all things riflescopes. How they’re made, how their optical systems work, how our eyes interact with the light they funnel through their many lenses, what parallax is and what parallax adjustable scopes do when you spin their dials, and so much more! Minds were blown for this one as usual and we’d love to hear from you about what further riflescope topics we can discuss in Part 2. Let us know! As always, we want to hear your feedback! Let us know if there are any topics you'd like covered on the Vortex Nation podcast by asking us on Instagram @vortexnationpodcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and good food. What's up everybody?
0:15.0	We have the man affectionately known around here as lightweight Dave.
0:24.3	Did you know we actually?
0:25.4	No.
0:26.4	We call you that?
0:27.4	We call you lightweight Dave. Okay.
0:28.4	When you're not around.
0:29.4	Well we do.
0:31.4	We have him joining us here today. This is Jimmy on the mic and Mark to my left and we've done a couple of these podcasts. We did all about binoculars with Mike McDowell. We did all about rangefinders with Rob and Paul.
0:44.6	Now Dave is joining us to attempt to do all about rifle scopes and we're going to see how
0:52.1	this one goes because this is a bit of opening up Pandora's box.
0:57.0	There is a lot going on.
1:00.0	As you know, with binoculars and with rangefinders, sort of, you know, when we talk with Mike about binoculars and with range finders sort of you know when we talk
1:03.9	the mic about binoculars for example I mean you just got binoculars a binoculars
1:07.6	right I mean you have entry-level ones and you have really nice ones And the difference in features and all that stuff
1:14.4	isn't a whole lot as you move your way up,
1:17.4	you know, maybe a locking diopter here and there,
1:20.3	Abbey Conig Prism or whatever. But when it comes to rifle scopes, they come in about a bazillion different shapes and sizes, configurations, different kinds of turrets, different illumination, first focal planes, second focal planes second focal planes this that the other thing
1:35.4	so we're gonna attempt to kind of break it down
1:38.6	hopefully for somebody who maybe is just entering into the market of Riflescopes,
1:43.0	or if you've been around Riflescopes for a while, too,
1:45.3	but you're just kind of curious about what makes them tick
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