Telescopic Sight - Accessories

Accessories

Typical accessories for telescopic sights are:

• Lens hoods for mounting on the objective and/or ocular to reduce/eliminate image quality impairing stray light.
• Lens hoods that extend the full length of a gun barrel to improve image quality by blocking out shot strings induced mirage ("heat waves" or aberrations resulting from a hot gun barrel).
• Covers to protect the objective and/or ocular external lens surface against foul weather and damage. There are slide-over, bikini and flip-open type covers without or with transparent covering material.
• Optical filters like Grey, Yellow and Polarising filters to optimize image quality in various lighting conditions.
• Kill Flash or honeycomb filters to eliminate light reflections from the objective that could compromise a sniper.
• Eye-safe laser filters to protect operators against being wounded/blinded by laser light sources. These filters are often an internal part in the assembly of lens elements.
• Transit and protection pouches and cases.