Sounds like a solid choice for what you're describing for its intended use. Don't let the anti-Leupold crowd drag you down. You make your own decisions and they don't need to be justified to some person sitting behind a keyboard that you'll never meet.
I agree with you that a person should feel and be free to make their own decisions. But, I do question what the utility is in posing a question on an online forum to then disregard certain answers because they don't support a previously entrenched belief?
Whatever the item is, I figure there's valid and non valid rational for feeling positive or negative about it. It's the reader's job to ask the right questions to find out/decide if a poster's opinions and experiences have validity to their own decision making process.
