Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Leica ER 5 2-10x50 scope with Ballistic Reticle -opinions??

Anybody have or use one.Thanks ahead,Huntz

I had one. Traded to a member on here. Glass was excellent. I simply wanted a non ranging reticle.

Otherwise, it’s a great scope.

I assume you've seen the Eurooptics closeout on them:

https://www.eurooptic.com/51055-Leica-Leica-ER-5-2-10x50-scope-with-mag-ballistic-reti.aspx

IMHO they are a steal at this price. I can't think of another scope of equal quality for anywhere near the same money. I bought several Leica ER and ERi Scopes last year because they are great glass for the money. Optically I prefer them to Swarovski AV's that I compared them side by side with. Not as good as the Swaro X5 but the X5 is 4x the price. :-)

The reticules are mid to slightly heavy thickness which is ideal for Hunting but not for a pure target scope. Leica doesn't have as slick a ballistic calculator online as Swaro does so it might take a little more work to figure out your subtensions and ranges for each bar but not a big deal at all if you know what you are doing.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/69976.jpg

These are 2 I had pics of in the gallery, a Fierce 6.5 Creed and a Sako M85 6.5x55.

All in all I'd buy another in a minute if I had a rifle that needed an excellent quality scope for a really good price. The only question you might ask yourself is if you might want to spend a few hundred more and get the ERi with a lighted dot in the reticle. Eurooptics I think still has a few with the illuminated reticle also. I personally really like a lighted reticle for hunting but a lot of folks might want to save the extra $3-400. Either way they are really nice glass for the price. To get much better glass you'll need to move into the 2k range of scopes...............dj

I have a couple of the 2.5-10's with the #4 reticle on the way from Eurooptic.

That is a great bang for the buck.

yes it is.

I missed it. I opened the email but was tired from work and went to sleep. When I woke up, they were gone. I've got too many scopes anyway. I'm fixing to sell a few that are still in the box and never mounted. I've added it up and think I've got enough laying around to buy a spotting scope.

That one is pretty nice if you have the IBS reticle. But it doesn't have he standard or magnum Ballistic "christmas tree" reticle's. Maybe they will add them. :-)

The Leica Ballistic is there too. No Magnum Ballistic.

The Magnum Ballistic reticle was never intended for distribution outside of Europe so the Leica USA site has no detail on it