Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Leupold VX-2 2-7x33 - opinions?

Mr. Clark, you should save money and weight by just using iron sights it sounds like.

The same in Wisconsin's Cedar swamps.Thicker than flies on fresh dogchit.

A 2-7 checks a lot of boxes for me and so does a VX-2.

Or a red dot, they work great on half of a 2 piece weaver mount, can do the scope and mouts for less than 4 or 5 ounces total

Used the 2-7 quite a bit on this 30-06, not cds but had lrd which I liked.

I too dislike higher magnification on a handy rifle in cover. My cutoff is around 4x. Below, my eyes adapt well for seamless, both eyes open, sight picture. Above, the scope over powers my off eye, screws up field of view when swinging on quick close shot.

If a woods gun, light and tough, 2.5ul. Open gun, 6x36. Split the difference, 4x. Otherwise, something like the 2-7 covers a lot of bases.

Or do what I did and listen to our own
Mule Deer J.B.
and got a new SWFA Leupold FX II 3x20 Big Bore and sent
it in to Leupold for a Heavy Duplex
for my Lipseys Ruger 77 RSI 30-06

You can order them direct from the Leupold Custom shop if you are going to swap the reticles and save money on shipping. If you have to pay shipping from SWFA and then to Leupold you only pay shipping from Leupold from their custom shop.

Could you post a pic of that reticle, through the scope, against something in the distance, to show sight picture? Maybe about 50 or 75 yards, against something we'd have an idea of size. Truck, stop sign, cow, target backer?

Thanks

I had a Leupold with the heavy duplex and didn't like it at all. I hunt under a canopy of pines/spruce/hemlock/cedar all the time and the standard duplex has always shown up well enough to shoot well past legal hunting hours. This is in a couple of vx-1 3-9x40's and a vx-2 1-4x20.

I once had a heavy duplex in a 1.75-6 Leupold and didn't like it either. I'd prefer a German #4 type reticle.

Next time my Daughter is over I will get her to try and
take one

I'd like to see the sight picture of the HD in the big bore.

edit to add:

Found the old JB article w/ the HD, put he didn't take a pic of the reticle. Tried a search, only could find one of the guys here, who ordered it w/ target dot. Several had HD, but never posted pic.

I've found that I'm actually faster with a low power scope than with irons. I have to align irons but if my scope is set right,I'm using it just like a red dot with both eyes open,and it's actually faster than aligning two points on irons. I could also have a shot at 20 yards or a shot at 200 on the same day,at the same place.

Everyone sees differently, but Ive got three of them, and three of the 2.5 to 8 and I spent hours early morning and late at night comparing the two models, and any difference is in my opinion very slight. I prefer the 2x7 because its slightly smaller and lighter and to my eyes at least is 99% as good as the VX3. Its also, in Canada, about $200 cheaper, which may have affected my vision.

I put one on a M70 Fwt in .308 this past deer season. It's a great little scope and my second in the 2-7X range. My first was a Bushnell 3200. Both have pros and cons. The biggest con of the Leupold for me is not having a hydrophobic (water repelling) coating like the RainGuard coating. Unlike the Bushnell, the Leupold doesn't suffer from the tube effect. I hunt in the foothills of the Catskills and usually keep it on 2 or 3 X for hunting in the thickets we have and will only crank it up to the 7X for zeroing the scope or shooting to check the zero.

Not through a big bore but may help. The distance to the truck is about 140 yards.

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/6102889/reticle_pics

Thanks, was wanting to see how it looks in the big bore. For whatever reason, the same reticle is not always consistent between models, or at least I think it looks different.

I dislike a standard duplex on a lower powered LEU, but I did have a HD on a 1-4, that I never disliked. Have had as many #1 and #4 that I have not liked, as I have liked, depending on who did them. Have need for a long tube scope, vs 2.5UL, and was thinking that 3x, w/ maybe the HD would do. Just need to get a feel for the sight picture first.

Although the 2.5-8 is my fav, the 2-7 is all the scope a guy needs for the kind of hunting I do in the Rockies. I own at least one in every generation of Leup 2-7's.

Tough to argue with the simplicity of a fixed power or the versatility of a variable...........

Casey

Exactly. With a varible like the 2-7 on low power it is easy to leave both eyes open and "see" in front of a fleeing critter looking for an opening--I've killed a number of elk in the spruce/fir elk jungles that way. Anything beyond 3x, and it becomes more difficult.

Casey

I mounted one on a Model 722 in .308 that had the barrel trimmed down to 21 inches, after having a heavy duplex reticle installed by Leupold. My shots are all in the 100-yards-or-less category in the swamps and forest clearings of south Georgia. The HD works great in this type of terrain. The scope fits the rifle well, and works great for my type of hunting. I' m completely satisfied with it. YMMV.