I really liked my VX3 3.5-10x40 until it took a crap... Good thing it was at the range and not in the field. I would have really been pizzed... I have Beaverton programmed into my gps for occasions like that...:
My LGS friend says he has to send back more Leupolds than any other brand...
Rifles fail, scopes fail, bullets fail, primers fail, powder fails, iron sights fail, cars fail, toilet paper fails, people fail...fact of life. How many times have we, as hunters, failed in one manner or another? Does that innately and summarily disqualify us forevermore?
And maybe more Leupolds fail because statistically more people are using Leupolds. Statistics can be a dangerous tool.
Not pickin' a fight. Just sayin' everybody has preferences and other folks' preferences doesn't hurt us either way.