Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Root of the Leupold "problem"

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this is a leupold vx r, certainly not one of their base models. look at what happened here, there is only 1.5 tiny threads at best that hold the turret adjuster on. Those 1.5 threads are tasked with holding the turret click mechanism that bears against the erector. it has to hold back the spring on the erector. The erector looked like cheap stamped aluminum from what I could see from the outside.

leupolds are great set and forget scopes. its dialing they can't handle, even the supposed "good" models like the mark 4's and vx3's. All this worked great when people didn't dial their scopes. IMO leupod is a relic of the past. their coatings don't deal with flare and sun hitting the objective lenses very well. IMO the japanese LOW scopes have totally outclassed them for 2 decades.