I’ve had to return Leupold products, one spotting scope twice when it came back badly out of focus. Had a VX3 4.5-14x50 on a 7 mag that my son was going to use on an elk hunt.
The idea that he hung it in a tree 4’ off the ground mystifies me, that the branch broke seems right & it landed on the scope knocking it way out of zero.
Put a Burris FF2 on it fearing the Leupold was damaged & he took that hunting. To check out the VX3 I put it on a 25-06 that hadn’t really shot any loads well wearing a Sig Whiskey 3 & I needed to burn up some ammo. To my surprise it adjusted to zero perfectly while I tweaked it to an Inch high at 100 & shot the smallest groups ever out of that rifle.
So the scope adjusts & looks great on any rifle but based on how far the fall bumped it out of Zero I’d be hesitant to put it on an elk rifle but it should be fine on the 25-06 as long as my son doesn’t carry it.
