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I'm assuming some sort of zero stop?


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You can get a second revolution of the turret by depressing the button. They've been that way for some time.

Interesting, hadn't seen that. Mine was old school. Saw they finally made a dial you can read too.

be nice if they tightened them up so they wouldn't spin so freely. I do have 1st gen cds tho.

That was the issue I had with mine as well. Somebody had a knurled cap that looked decent.

I believe on the VX5 and VX6, that button acts as a zero lock, you have to press it in to move the turret off your zero.

I think I may have mis spoke. It is a a zero lock button, but it allows for 2 full rotations of the turret. On the first turn it will be flush with the turret (as it is when you depress it. On the second turn it will automatically recess into the turret, giving you a visual indication as to which turn you're on.

That's what I was hoping it was.

Not all CDS have that.

I have one on a VX-3i 2.5-8 that is a one-turn with the lock, got it through the Custom Shop. You get about 14 MOA, which is enough for what I'd use that scope for.

You can see it here, but not in great detail. (Notice the dry conditions we suffered this year.) I also have a 2-10x42 VX-5HD with a lock and two turns...

Hey Vic, are you duck hunting with a rifle?

My brother and a pard came out to hunt mule deer here in CO this past season. They were both running VX6 3-18s with the Wind-Plex and those 2-rev CDS dials with the zero-lock... they were pretty impressive pieces of glass, and tracked well shooting rocks out to 900 or so. I liked all the features, and they’re pretty light. I can buy them at 1/2 of retail.... but I’m still rather dubious about their durability... they’re still a new Leupold.

That may explain that string of misses...(grin). That land is normally dry, but deer will still come through there, skirting the edge of the thick stuff seen on the other side of the water. We don't run dogs, but when adjoining properties do, I rake up on "squirters" at that stand. It's a narrow spit of hardwoods that connects two larger wooded areas...a perfect funnel.

I've always hunted with Leupold and really like them. I'm patiently waiting for someone to tell me that that a Leupold 30mm scope is gtg for dialing. I'm suffering through the handful of Leupold 6x42's I have left.

I have a couple VX6 3-18’s that sat up top on my 300 ultra and Wby for several years, combined seeing a few hundred rounds. I had no issues with either. Figured the Leupold clock was against me, changed one out for an LRSHi. VX6 Glass is very nice. I haven’t seen the “HD” glass offering yet. Curious how much it improved the straight VX6 glass. 😎

Can't say 6x42's are much suffering....

They are when you go to sight in your rifle and you want to throw it off a cliff because the windage NEVER tracks properly. I've killed a pile of animals with them but they have got to get the tracking figured out. None of that "dial past it" BS you hear.

1st gen CDS was loose as Madonna. Caused me a miss on a cow elk. Next gens much tighter, vx2, vx3i, vx5. Haven't played with 6HD but I'm sure its the same as the 5. That button actually locks the dial, you can't turn it unless you push it in.

Is the barreled action staying in the stock or does it fall out?

Exactly!