its amazing how different people just prefer different things. for me the eye relief on leupolds and in particular the zeiss conquest 3-9 is too long, it means I have to mount the scope a long ways forward on the gun and the last ziess conquest I almost had to change my mounting setup. also there is no free lunch with eye relief it makes you need a more careful eye alignment. thats why I prefer the bushnell elite scopes over leupold. it simply comes down to preferences and quite possibly how most guns fit you. I am a larger guy that likes a long LOP on a gun, perhaps thats why I don't like leupold as much.
