You are partly correct. Leupold is the standard in silhouette for a few reasons. Weight absolutely is one.
Good post, thanks for the insights and I suspect you have been at it far longer than me (a one match a month guy). I guess this sort of falls into the chicken/egg problem. If Leupold was the only one really serving the silhouette community and they form the majority of the scopes because of it I guess it's natural to see the most failures. I have had an old VX-III have a failed erector but it was after years on a .243 and then thousands of rounds on a .22. Still buying them though.
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