[quote=jorgeI]At the recent National Small Bore competition in PA, below is a survey of equipment used. I guess most of these guys didn't get the memo on Leupolds....
Shooting low recoil rimfires at 100 yards or less....
dave
Although I don't have the list, you will find 90% plus of the centerfire silhouette shooters shooting out 500 meters are using Leupold too.
The fact that we're shooting smallbore at 100 meters and less is immaterial in the often repeated fable that Leupold repeatable adjustments suck. Every match requires at least 4 major adjustments to shoot the various animals (for my rifle/scope/ammo it's from 0 on chickens to 11.5 on rams) plus an occasional mid-relay tweak for wind. In a season most of use will shoot 4-5K rounds. That's a lot of adjusting. If they didn't work you wouldn't see that much bias towards Leupold. .
But then, well, it's just facts, not hyperbole so worth nothing to the CF Optics section.
Having shot smallbore and high-power silhouette for a lot of years I can verify this. Leupold offers the best combination of good optics, tracking, and light weight which is very important because of weight limits on equipment.
It is becoming more prevalant for silhouette competitors to build one rifle which can meet specs for competing in both Hunter and High-power class using the same rifle. So the scope ends up being adjusted a lot during the course of the day, it will be adjusted up and down in fairly large steps and during the course of the match for minor corrections depending on headwind/tailwind, crosswind, etc.
I would hazard a guess that during a week-end match the scope gets adjusted more than the average shooter adjusts one in a year and if it is a Regional or National match then the amount of adjusting goes up proportionally. All in all they hold up very well or people who spend $1000's or dollars to compete every year would not be using them.
drover
