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Had my mind set on the Leupold, but say Doug had the Minox as demos. Haven't looked at much other than Leupold for several years. Rifle will be a 17 HMR. Still have a 3-9x40 VX-II or two in the safe and just may use one of those.
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Edited to add, targets will be paper ground squirrels and steel at whatever range they appear .... basically a fun gun.
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Depends... Do you ever intend to upgrade or sell?
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Not many Minox fans out there?
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I prefer the Leupold Duplex ret over the Minox ret. The glass on the Minox is comparable to Zeiss Conquest but I just didn't like the reticle.
Leupold gets the win for me.
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Thanks ... Doug has the minox open box specials for 1/2 the price of the Leupold .... ($199)
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At that price, I'd be inclined to try the Minox.
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I'm one of the somewhat rare, Minox fans. Got rid of all but one of my Leupolds, Weavers etc and replaced them with the Minox.
AS rnovi stated, their optics are on the level of the Conquest scopes. They have a wide variety of crosshairs and are somewhat different if all you've ever looked through are Leupolds etc., but they do the job quite well.
At the sale price Doug has on them, I'd be snapping a few up if I needed some more.
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The HD 5 Minox are very good The Non HD 3 suck.
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I like the Minox ZA3 I have but to be honest I haven't had it shot with it enough to really test it
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i have had 2 of the opened box specials. if you go that rout have it sent to minox to be fixed. then sent to you. will save some shipping cost. and should have it back before sring. good luck on which way you go.
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