ZEISS Launches First Focal Plane Riflescope Family for Long-Range Precision Shooting and for Hunting
With the ZEISS LRP S5 and LRP S3 the company provides high-performance optics with impressive total elevation travel for successful shooting competitions and for hunts.Oberkochen, Germany | 07 September 2022 | ZEISS Consumer Products
ZEISS presents its first focal plane riflescope product family. The family consists of two series – the ZEISS LRP S5 which has been already presented to the market and is now available, and the all-new ZEISS LRP S3. The product family for long-range precision shooting and hunting includes high performance optics, an impressive total elevation travel, a daytime visible illuminated reticle, and a ballistic stop with an external locking windage turret. The LRP S5 is now available in two models: 318-50 and 525-56 whereas the ZEISS LRP S3 will be offered in April 2023 as 425-50 and 636-56. Both are provided in either milliradian (MRAD) or minute-of-angle (MOA) configurations.
With the ZEISS LRP product family, we have expanded our riflescope portfolio to provide highly reliable optics for successful long-range precision shooting and long-distance hunting. The LRP S5 is the flagship product of our high-end ZEISS LRP product family, the LRP S3 offers a high-end option to enter this segment.
ZEISS LRP S5 – high premium riflescope to dominate the competition
ZEISS LRP S5 – High performance optics ensures exceptional image quality
The premium optical design of the LRP S5 utilizes ZEISS Fluoride lens elements, SCHOTT glass and ZEISS’s proprietary T-Star lens coatings for optimum color fidelity, image brightness, exceptional resolution, and edge-to-edge sharpness within the entire field-of-view. The scopes deliver 90% light transmission to the eye for faster target identification and validation of the finer details down range. The exterior facing lenses are final coated with ZEISS LotuTecTM protective lens coating to repel water, dust, dirt, fingerprints and more.
ZEISS LRP S5 – Tactile and highly repeatable turrets and impressive total elevation travel
“In long-range rifle competitions, shooters will experience challenging conditions like switching winds, poor and harsh lightning or the stress of time”, explained Kyle Brown, Director of Marketing and Product for ZEISS Consumer Products USA, who is an experienced long-range precision shooter himself. “You may not be able to control these conditions, but you can certainly adjust for them with your choice of a riflescope.”
The ZEISS LRP S5 offers an external elevation turret with larger font sizes and dual row engraving. The turret also incorporates the mechanically robust ZEISS Ballistic Stop feature, which provides a rock-solid return to zero. In addition, the all-new ZEISS External Locking Windage Turret (ELWT) allows the shooter to pull out on the locking collar, make necessary adjustments, and then lock-in the selected setting. The MOA-based turrets are adjustable with .25 MOA click values and offer 30 MOA of travel per rotation. Each click is audible and provides a tactile confirmation for every adjustment. The MRAD turret features a more pronounced click at whole MRAD intervals. The ZEISS LRP S5 offers best-in-class - 140 MOA or 40.7 MRAD - total elevation adjustment which enables shooters to engage targets up to 1500 yards - and beyond.
ZEISS LPR S5 – Diffractive illuminated, smart reticles allow precise shot placement
The first focal plane reticles ZF-MOAi and ZF-MRi represent MOA and MRAD reticle designs. “Our reticles were developed with professional input from active competitors and instructors”, reported Brown. The diffractive reticle illumination technology of the LRP S5 is digitally controlled, creates an ultra-bright daylight visible point-of-aim, and has an auto-off feature controlled by angle and time sensors. Thus, the target can always be aimed precisely even in difficult lighting conditions.