Bwana1, all scopes fail. Some fail more than others, I am not going into harms way with my hunting rifle, but you do treat them roughly at times, then further some just break when your shooting them or dialing them. The ones that don't break are well known and the ones that break are well known. While there are armchair quarterbacks that love this one or that one, statistically speaking your chances of getting a poor device is much higher with Leupold than with SWFA or NightForce. However I have been recently encouraged by John's (Muledeer) test of the toric 3-15 scope. I think a Leupold would last for a while on a 10-22 or a 223 if you did not twist it a lot. Past that I have no faith.