Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics 6x36 vs 6x42 Leupold.

I've owned both if I'm looking to save weight I'll take the FXII. If weight isn't a concern I prefer the Meopta Fixed 6 over both Leupolds. Their glass is better to MY EYES and I love their #4 reticle for big game hunting.

Must be humid right now in Alaska

The 6x42 seems easier to get behind to me. With the 6x36 I feel like I have to be set up just right. I've assumed that is what is intended when referring to the "eye box". The 6x42 just seems quicker and easier to shoulder and immediately find my target. FOV, eye relief, power don't seem to be different enough when I've used them to matter.

Got a panicked text from a buddy who says Leopold discontinued the 6x42,based on a conversation with Leopold.. It's his favorite scope. He got on line and bought a spare

he says no plans by Leopold to replace it.

Anyone know if this is true? Makes the whole conversation moot.....

The 2017 catalog shows their offering is down to only the wide duplex in both objective diameters.

Thats all those scopes need is a wide duplex... well or a #4

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musta been his reticle.

Seems like companies are so thick headed that one day no one will make whiskey any more because I happen to like it.

Nice of Leupold to sell more Weavers saving consumers 50% by having a true plex in a matte scope......

Wish Bushnell would make a 6x in the Elite line.

I've been surfing the net looking for fixed power scopes. There are more choices out there than I would have guessed. Nice to see this being discussed here-I am going to be in the market for several rifle scopes soon and I'm giving fixed powers some serious consideration.

Website shows three reticles including LRD:

https://www.leupold.com/hunting-shooting/scopes/fixed-power-riflescopes/fx-ii-6x36mm/

2017 Catalog shows only one reticle, Wide Duplex:

https://www.leupold.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ConsumerCatalog-2017.pdf

Glad I've got three 6x36's with LRD.

A Bushnell Elite 6x would be a very nice option to have.

What is Leupold's fascination with that wide duplex? It is one of the few reticule I genuinely dislike. I had one Redfield that came to me on a rifle I bought, and it had that same poor reticle or close enough. Got rid of that one.

Agreed

Couldn't send that Luppy down the road fast enough. If it has a red illuminated dot in the center, yeah that would makes sense, otherwise no thanks.

Have a S&B Summit with that same wide reticle and it ended up on a 22 for chipmunks/red squirrels

Yeah here's a chipmunk I killed with one of those S&B Summits....







And another

damn dark, too....

The Summit reticle will take you past dark easily. Ive aimed at hundreds of deer here to Kansas with it.

If I were worried, I wouldn't use it.

Same deer, minutes later. Killed in a Kansas river bottom at last light.

Shaking my head.

Look, I have had two and still have one. If someone offered me the 1200 bucks I had in it, I'd take it in a heartbeat.

Being younger than you my pupil dilates enough to watch reticles subtending 1/4" at 100 yards fade before the heavier versions do. It does not take me past dark...it may take you. Glasswise, the S&B possesses no low-light magic over its brethren.

S&B now offers a more competitive low light reticle in that model but unfortunately they won't change reticles in the Summit.

The wide reticle doesn't cut it for me in the S&B or the Leupold.

If it doesn't cut it for you then fine. After 35+ years of doing this I would not be bothered with a scope that that handicapped me.

Not a big deal anyway. Look at the dead deer.

Good luck.

The wide duplex is not good for holdover work, even in good light.