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Bought this Leupold off the fire several years ago and never used it. Mounted it on a rifle that was never shot. 1" tube, 3.5-10x50 with a cool custom reticle with hold over and hold under dots. Glass is 100%, very faint shadows I tried to photograph on tube, no scratches, dings, etc. Original box and all paperwork. $525 shipped.

I’m getting lots of questions about which bullet and load that reticle was designed for. Sorry, I should have contacted leupold and figured that out first. The build date and order number are on the end of the box. I guess I always just figured I’d shoot it at different ranges and just write down the yardages for my individual load with the holdover dots, kind of like you do with the Swarovski tds. I’ll try to get the info tomorrow.

Joe

I found the original for sale thread and subtensions: 6.5 caliber 140gr partition traveling at 2750 fps. with a 200 yd zero and the following down subtention-300yd is 2.5 moa or 7.8 in/400yd is 5.39 moa or 23.5 in/500yd 9.1 moa or 47 in. I remember now that with my .30-06 that I planned to use this on, I could zero at 200 and the hold over dots would be almost perfect for 300, 400 and 500. This would be perfect for a 6.5 creed with 140 partitions, but you can use the MOA numbers and compare to your own load and I'm sure it matches up with several others.

Cool scope

Back when Leupold did cool stuff!

Thanks, guys. $495 shipped.

I have a scope on my 300 win from the custom shop. Best scope I’ve ever owned. If I hadn’t just picked up a scope I’d grab this one.

Weekend bump!

So if the crosshair is set for 200 yds, is the dot above the crosshair set for 100 yds?

I don’t believe the the subtensions would work out that way with most calibers. It is the same 2.5 moa distance between the upper dot and the crosshair as it is between the crosshair and the 300 yard dot. You could either use the upper dot for zeroing and then have 4 holdovers instead of 3. Or you could zero the center crosshair at 250 and then the upper dot would be good at 100 in most rifles, etc.

$485 shipped.

I found a 50mm Alumina cover and added it to this scope. Still $485 shipped.

Scope with Alumina $475 shipped.

Wow - it sold immediately on Gunbroker for $550.