Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics How many use the Leupold VX1 3 to 9x40 for hunting?

I just pulled a new VX1 39x40 off my 7mm-08. I bought it last spring and mounted it during a round of scope roulette. I hunted it this fall and wasn't too impressed. It just got replaced because I wasn't happy with its low light performance. I felt like I lost a fair amount of time around the legal shooting time limits that I would have otherwise had should I have kept the Zeiss Conquest that it replaced or the Fullfield II that was originally on the gun.

I understand that it's not in the same price point as the Conquest, but for $100 more I could have bought a VX-2 that probably would have stayed on the gun due to the lighter weight when compared to the Zeiss, without giving up as much optically. Or I could have bought another FF II for $50 less.

I have to find a gun to put it on, because it was a pretty good scope and it held fine (not like a 7mm-08 is a hard kicking gun). It will probably go on my beater 270 Win.