I love Leupolds, been using them since my first Weaver fogged up some 60 years ago...Hunted all over the world with them..never have had an issue with the repair dept. and they have never charged me a dime..I buy used Leupolds, mostly 3Xs, Leupold Alaskans, 2x7x33 and ocassionally a varmint scope. I get a lifetime guarentee with any used scope..How can you beat that.. as to high cost of the new Leupolds, well you guys buying the high dollar European over engineered scopes caused that, I guess Leupold wanted a piece of the pie..A big game scope only needs to be dependable, and have a duplex cross hair to satisfy me..I have never seen all this anal stuff that some require and pay big bucks for to shoot a deer or whatever..All I need is to put the cross hair on the animal and squeeze the trigger in my controlled jerk..it seems to work just fine and all under $200 bucks. The rest is anal and not needed.
I guess it just depends on your perspective, the above is mine..
That's my perspective to Roy,except my favorite scope is a 2.5x8 B&L Balvar...
