As a matter of fact only one was a Leupold, a 3.5-10x on my wife's rifle that went wonky a couple of years ago. She missed a perfect eating-size 3x3 mule deer because of it.
In fact, Eileen had a really bad run of luck with scopes for a few years, partly because she was doing an optics column for a national magazine and had to test a variety of scopes. All that went bad were variables, I believe a half-dozen all told.
Three of the scopes that that went bad on my own rifles were expensive Euro-scopes.
All of which is why the vast majority of my big game rifles now have fixed-powers.
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