Originally Posted by PaulBarnard
Originally Posted by Jordan Smith
Originally Posted by Cluggins
Originally Posted by mathman
Originally Posted by Jordan Smith
Repeated recoil and backcountry/mountain/horseback hunting tends to be hard on scopes. If a guy is simply carrying a scoped rifle into the shooting house and back, and limiting the recoil exposure to a box of ammo a year, any scope will likely last for years.



What percentage of Leupold users*** who have never had any trouble at all have round counts on them in the thousands? BTW, I don't mean on top of ten pound 223s either.



***I have used a bunch of Leupolds over a long stretch of time. I still use quite a few. I thought I'd mention that before any irrational fanboy decided to brand me an uninformed "hater".


What percentage of shooters of any center fire rifles have round counts in the thousands? Hell, we can kill a deer a day for much of the hunting season here, and I still don't burn a box per year between my several rifles.

I'm guessing that most of us that have experienced multiple Leupold failures shoot a couple of orders of magnitude more than a box of ammo a year, in addition to dragging rifles through the hills and mountains, strapped to packs, horses, etc. Not that it always takes that many rounds for Leup problems to show themselves.


Wow, who could have seen that coming? Almost everyone I know who uses a Leupold straps it to their 4 wheeler rack and hauls ass from the truck to the stand. None of them drag their rifles anywhere. I shoot more than a box a year and have never had a failure. Though I doubt I have a round count of over 500 on any of them. I also have some Leupold made Redfields that have been great. None have adjusted precisely getting them zeroed, but have been 100% reliable once there. VX-2 and below.
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WOW Paul, cant believe you have the time for the uninformed here when you have the big boys just waiting on your every post on snipers hide............thank you for your inspiration