Leapers Scope Information
 
RI: Reticle Intensified Scopes
Leapers has spent years on researching and perfecting the illumination for our scope. We explored different reticles, light sources, lighting positions and a wide variety of internal/external scope design and enhancement options. Over time, we built several illumination platforms as the basis for our Reticle Intensified Scopes. Each platform features a uniquely designed and optimally constructed illumination. The breakthrough we are most proud of is the red and green dual illumination we offer which gives shooters a lot more lighting options to work with under different environment or weather conditions. We invite you to browse our optics and, hopefully, enjoy the use of them too!
 
 RE: Range Estimating Reticle
In the past couple of years, Range Estimating reticle has begun to be recognized as a very useful tool by hunters and shooters around the world. With some patient learning and practices, this tool can enhance shooting accuracy and performance in ways not imagined before. Staying ahead of the trend, Leapers offers two most unique Range Estimating reticles, TRE and ARE, to our customers and continue to develop more for the future. Among our Range Estimating scopes, you will find the following features:
  1. One Piece Tube Precision Machined. Robust and Durable Construction. Completely Sealed and Nitrogen Filled. Perfect for All Terrains/Weather.
     
  2. One Piece Internal Tube to Provide Solid Lens Element Housing for Consistent and Reliable Shooting. .
     
  3. Integral Windage/Elevation Housing, Dual O-Rings and Easy-to-grip Tactical Finger Adjustment to Enhance Tube Integrity and Accurate Shooting.
     
  4. Excellent Field of View and Long Eye Relief for Shooting Comfort.
     
  5. Proven Range Estimating Reticle to Provide Range Estimates and Enhance Accurate Shooting.
     
  6. Ergonomic Design, High Quality Precision Machined Power Ring, Focus Ring and Eyepiece to Guarantee Smooth and Accurate Adjustments.
     
TRE: Tactical Range Estimating
Regular mil-dot reticle found on the market usually has 4 dots on each direction of the cross hair, giving you 9 different aiming points for either windage or elevation. If you count the 2 inner tips of the opposite duplex cross hairs, you get 11 aiming points. Leapers’s own 24 Mil-Dot Reticle (TRE) has 6 dots on each direction of the cross hair, giving you 13 aiming points or 15 including the inner tips of the duplex cross hairs.
 
  • Mil-Dot Range Estimating:
     
    1. Range estimating requires common knowledge/experience about your target's actual width or height.
    2. 1 mil in a scope reticle is the distance from the center of one dot to the center of the next dot.
    3. Set your scope at the highest power. View the target through the scope. Place the center of the dot against one edge of the target and measure to the opposite edge of the target.



       
    4. Once the target has been measured in mils, depending on the scope model, a formula is available to estimate the distance of the target.
    5. Each scope will come with a pre-calculated mil-dot table of most used distance estimates to aid the user.
       
  • Mil-Dot Range Estimating Example:

    For example, based on past experiences, the length of a known animal from shoulder to tail is 40 inches (1.016 meters), and we see a scope to find that it occupies 5 mils. Therefore, the distance can be derived from using this scope's formula below -
  (Height or Width of Target in Meters) x 1,000 = Range in Meters (1 M = 1.0936 Yards)
2 x (Height or Width of Target in Mils.)
Hence, (1.016 x 1,000) / (2 X 5) = 101.6 meters (110 yds).
Armed with this knowledge, you can compensate for the bullet’s drop accordingly and make “great things happen”!
 
ARE: Advanced Range Estimating
For fixed distance shooting at multiples of hundred meters, our ARE range estimating reticle allows you to aim at targets of variable lengths / widths with pinpoint accuracy. The illustration below shows varying target widths at 100 meters. Proportionally, shooters can derive the target width for 200 meters, 300 meters, and so on.


 
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