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This topic would be better named "give up all hope about scopes" rather than "Another Leupold Failure"

I have had Leupold, Zeiss, Kahles, now Nightforce, all with problems that required a trip to the factory. We shoot more than ordinary humans and I guess scopes break after a while.

Iron sights never went back to the factory, good value too!

I'm reading this and wondering why some Leupold owners take all this so personally ? I mean get real. It's a sighting device, not your first born.

My 3-9x40 Vari XIIC went off last week for a reseal, repurge and recharge nitrogen. Other than that, the scope worked fine. I have had quite a few Leupold fail but I have owned quite a few and don't baby them. Plus, I did own a high percentage of magnum rifle at .300 H&H or above. I suppose that contributes to the failure rate. That and a lot of range time.

Sometimes the coolaid,has a little pee in it.

dave

I think the point is that losing its' nitrogen should not happen. It still had to be sent to Leupold at your expense and then it is back to the range to sight in again. Should not happen, mounted on a magnum rifle or not. But it does, so it seems....with regularity.

I only buy Leupold scopes now when a Zeiss is too big for the particular application...which is rarely.

Simply amazing the lengths many will go to justify their choices!!! Some will argue that X is better than Z or X is tougher than Z but in the end, most will concede that most scopes are aiming devices.

If the scope is old enough , they ALL eventually lose whatever gas is inside the tube.

Like Mike Sexton down at Ironsite put it the other day,

"If you had a set of tires on a car for 30-40 years, would you expect them to remain inflated with the same amount of pressure after 40 years with no air added over that time???"

Seals shrink and leak over time. On any scope, if you own it long enough. Be thankfull Leupold at least does the work free of charge, even on a scope they built before you were born.

Need I say more

BobinNH... this is your time!

Sorry Jim but I have to disagree. A 3-9 VXIIC should not have lost its' seal so soon. They are not that old (but I am). And comparing car tires to scopes is not a valid argument. I don't think a scope (with a full seal all around the lenses) should be compared to a 4000 pound car sitting on its' tires all the time with cheapo 2 cent valves holding back the pressure. Leupold scopes better be better sealed than that!

The statment about the seals came from Mike Sexton at Iron sight in Tulsa..And he was talking about older scopes. So was I.

He repairs more scopes in a month than most folks here will ever see in their lifetimes.Including you.

As to your argument that seals should never fail that is simply silly given all the moving parts on most scopes. Anything can happen overtime.

Even Euro made scopes need such servicing during their lifetime's as well.

RDFinn,



Here all this time I thought mine is a rifle mounted spotting and verification system. Live and learn.

Nope........just bullet holes

The troubles I have had with Leupold scopes was almost always to do with erector assemblies. So, maybe it is time for a bit of Viagra, eh?

Roy, can you tell the difference between .223 and .224 holes? If you can't, I have a person you need to talk to....LOL

It's all about how well you "Focus" on life!!!!

don't the new Leupolds have the doublespring system on the erector system now? You would think this would be better than the old system.

I have a new 4.5-14x50 VXIII illuminated 30mm in classified That I paid $925 bucks for and cannot even get $700.00 for it new.

To me that is a Leupold failure.

Leupold popularity is dying for sure.

It's not Leupold's fault you cannot get full street price out of a USED scope that does not even have the origional box or a picture included on your listing. That you also listed on a Monday.

There are LOTS of other brands of $500++ scopes sold on the Classifieds that only bring 2/3 of what they sell for new..

In the last month I have seen Leica,Kahles and Zeiss scopes sell used here on the fire for the same proportion of their going street price.

Quite frankly I'm amazed at the prices used Leupold scopes bring.

Even the old Vari-XII scopes bring ~$200. There a ton of significantly better scopes available brand new for around that price.

This is a Leupold success story to me. Even if it is just a marketing/perception success.