The fascination with fixed magnification Leupolds comes about when you get them set right and, after some field time, especially in situations where you have to shoot rapidly, you discover they work alot better than you ever thought. You also discover that the ability to change magnication just isn't needed.
They are right there with that image no matter what shooting position or what layers of clothing you wear while hunting. That's why old gun writers like Jack O'Connor much prefered scope with very forgiving, non critical eye relief for his big game rifles. Some of the early scopes had this feature and some didn't. Old Jack used to shoot at running jack rabbits and coyotes regularly as well as big game. Noticed the difference and wrote about it.
BTW, since the coming of CNC tooling, changes in POI when changing magnification haven't been a problem with even the cheap scopes. Barsness says this even applys to the very cheap, bubble pack, Wally World scopes. E
