Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics I am going to lose my scheit on Leupold....

I have sold a couple of rifles thinking they wouldn't shoot, but later realised it was the so called bulletproof Leupold that was the real problem, those scopes cost me a lot of wasted money but more importantly time.

Same here. I ran a couple Weaver "T" and a then new to the business Sightron 36X. That Sightron was the cheese. If the condition was holding steady, I'd click windage rather than hold one edge or the other of the mothball. Always got what I asked for,and always came back to zero. That was when folks in BR were starting to freeze scopes,and building precision adjustable mounting systems. A lot of Leupolds were donated to the cause. Drilled and injected with epoxy. Don't recall any Nightforces or Marches being glued up.

With all the dialing and twisting going on these days,things are going to go wrong. Back in the day you were a hunter. You only touched those adjustments if you absolutely had to. For fear of losing what you already had. Ammo was supposed to last you. Not be wasted fiddling with a scope settings for the fun of it. I lived it. A box of new cartridges was a thing of beauty. Now,we have thousands of pieces of ammo,brass,bullets. Enough powder to start a store of our own. Things have changed. Demand is through the roof. People have buckets of disposable funds now. I can recognize and live within today's scheme of things.

What I won't tolerate is some snot of a kid at Leupold talking down to me. Patronizing me. Insulting me. When I have forgotten more about scopes,and their uses than he is ever going to know. The one I have at their service facility right now is the last one Ill ever send in. When it comes back,it's ear marked for liquidation. Immediate liquidation. When I say it's over,it's over.

I've lived through the best of times to be a rifleman in the U.S. Seen a lot of advancements. Loved every minute of it. But scooter at Leupold sealed their fate with me. Won't hurt them a bit. Unless 2,000,000 other devoted customers tell them to pound sand. Now it becomes a problem. Makes me no never mind. I live my life my way. I hate to see Americans caught up in another American institution falling off the map. Ill miss the gold rings. The pride in ownership. Supporting fellow Americans. I hope scooter has a great future as a Wal Mart greeter. His days at Leupold are numbered.

They already know that there erector system sucks!!

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I guess I lied about it. Thanks for pointing that out.

sigh

I should have added a 😀.

Lol

I’ve found that if I read for long enough on the internet, that all the gear I’ve ever owned is garbage, our country is all but finished, and Hillary would have made an honest upstanding president. Luckily, I don’t believe everything I read.

its all good, but ya know a lot of folks are moving away from Leupold.

You're only 25% of the way towards getting your scope fixed. I had one that I sent those dumb bastards 4 times with accurate descriptions of the issue only to have it returned 3 times without anything done to it. I finally chewed some guys azz for 45 minutes in order to convince him that there was a problem that a 12 year old kid could diagnose. It finally came back repaired after the 4th time.

I’m noticing. I had heard a little about it locally, but figured I would ask about it here to try to understand better.

It’s been over a decade since my shooting silhouette days, and the vast majority of shooters all used Leupolds back then save only a handful of antiques and a few guys experimenting with newer model Weavers. So I was inclined to call BS myself. Turns out, I’m just out of touch

Hell I must admit I thought all this Leupold bashing was just that, people over reacting to problems that happen to some degree with any manufactured system. But earlier this year I ordered a FX II 3x from the Leupold Custom Shop with the #4 reticule and when I received it,it was unfocusable. No amount of ocular twisting could make anything visible through the scope let alone get the reticle in focus. I still build up a little steam when I think about it. I can't imagine how effed up ones processes would have to be, to be in the business of making optical instruments and not even visually inspect one coming from your "Custom Shop." It has ruined Leupold for me, though I hate to say it.

My Leupold customer service experience was excellent. And, I really do like many features of the scope. Weight, clarity, CDS, eye box are all fantastic. But when it ceases to point to the same spot each shot the rest of the features become irrelevant.

You know for sure nothing happpend via USPS, UPS, FeDX?

I have a bunch of Leupolds, hope mine don’t start f....king up. They are all CDS models.

Only CDS I bought was a 4-12, and I kept thinking the 300/221 had problems now and then. Then I realized that some misses after dialing were the scope.... I just had one a few weeks ago. I simply forgot to dial way down from the setting, then way up past the next setting and then back down to the needed setting. Lucky the 7 point just looked up, ran off a few steps and went back to eating... after readjusting the scope the next shot was right where I aimed... Nope I didn't screw up the first time.... good rest for gun, and for right elbow and such a chip shot around 112 steps....

As soon as I pay for a 458 Win mag I'll be saving for a 10x SS and put it on the 300/221 and send that and a 2.5-8 L back in that have given up the ghost.

I got out ahead of the problem, welded all of mine together end to end and now I use 'em for walking sticks.

Not an insult but how much do you really shoot and dial, honestly?

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Go shoot some 4 or 5 inch squares at 100yds . Start at zero, pair on each corner and rtz. Should have 4 nice tight shots at original zero... you might or might not like what you find out.......good luck...... Better to find out on paper, than out on a hunt......

I got rid of all my Leupolds except for one FX-III 6x42mm that's mounted on a compact .250-3000
Built the rifle years ago for my youngest whom is now grown. So, no pressing need to swap scopes as the rifle just sits in the safe.