Consider sticking with Leupold if that has been your previous standard. Leupold has been around a long time and has sold a bunch of scopes over the years. They have a past reputation of building very good scopes. They also have a longstanding reputation for very good customer service and product support to include product repair, refurbishing and custom work.
Given how many Leupolds are in use, especially by people who shoot and hunt quite a bit, it doesn't surprise me that we hear a bunch about scopes failing or needing repair. It's kind of like a a garage mechanic mentioning that they work on a lot of Ford pickups. Also keep in mind that Leupolds tend be kept in use for, well, probably longer than we have any right to expect.
I'm guessing that a lot of the issues come from spinning turrets on scopes that have erector assemblies designed before routine spinning of turrets/tracking was expected. The erector assemblies are very dependent on the spring assemblies and springs can and do wear out from use or even just the passage of time. We expect the need to inspect and maintain our other equipment, especially anything mechanical with moving parts, maybe we should expect the need to inspect, and as needed, have the scope erector rebuilt.
